Unfortunately the Flybook has to go back tomorrow so I’m rounding off the tests today.

Over the weekend I managed to do some battery tests and a lot more ‘real life’ testing.

Battery life is as expected with a UMPC-like 1:45 under full load (WiFi on, BT on, 100% CPU, 50% screen.) Battery drain rates are almost exactly the same as I got with the Easybook P7 from Paceblade.

Screen rotation works faultlessly and its an absolute pleasure to have 1024×600 as the native resolution.

Graphics power is not a great deal better than the Intel GPU’s with a 3DMark of 3050 at native resolution. Down at Origami-like 800×600 resolution its giving 3700.  Its more than enough for Google Earth and could be enough to enable some of the graphical features of Vista.

There’s a slightly annoying noise when the fan kicks in which sounds wrong to me. I’m checking to see if this is a fault or not.

Otherwise, its a wonderful machine. Expensive but definitely in a specification-class above Origami UMPCs.

Steve / Chippy.

tags: Flybook v33i, review