The AOpen OpenBook is a reasonably inexpensive notebook with decent competitive performance figures and good battery life.
Inside the OpenBook you will find an Intel Pentium 1.8GHz M processor which is the fastest mobile processor submitted. It also has 512MB of RAM which can be increased to 2GB, ATI graphics, and a 60GB HDD make up the engine room.
The OpenBook has a good collection of input/output connectors including FireWire, SPDIF, and a 3-in-1 memory card reader. It even has a parallel port -- the only notebook to do so. It also has Wi-Fi, 100M LAN, and modem.
The keys on the keypad are all blue/purple in colour. We don't know why manufacturers do this -- it makes more sense to distinguish the standard keys from all the other keys. Positioned above the keys are a set of play buttons which are used to play CDs even when the notebook is turned off.
The OpenBook uses a 15in LCD which has a native display resolution of 1400x1050. The HP is the only other notebook which is equipped with a 15in screen and out of the two the OpenBook has the better picture quality but it doesn't have the panel support that the HP has. The OpenBook performs extremely well in our tests, especially in our battery life test recording a time of four hours and five minutes.
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