BenQ is best known for the LCD screens and optical drives but not so much for laptops in India. At first glimpse, things look very good for their new netbook. The first thing you notice about the BenQ Joybook U101 is its beautiful surface; complete with accented patterns under its blue glossy finish. It gives the netbook a unique look and makes it feel more personal. With the lid opened, the inside of the laptop resembles the LG XNote and the Lenovo IdeaPad S10. It doesn’t  look a lot different from the LG and the Lenovo here. A metallic power button, two sets of LEDs, rounded edges and a rounded combined mouse button are some of things that stand out when you look at it.

The screen of the Joybook is 16:9 and runs at a resolution of 1024 x 576. This is a little less vertical workspace than the other 1024 x 600 displays. This might be great for movie buffs but not so great when you need the most workspace available for other applications. While rest of the hardware remains the same as the other netbooks, the Joybook Lite U101 is one of the only ones to give you more than a gigabyte of memory to start with.
 

The U101 comes with 1.5 GB of RAM which can be upgraded to 2GB. This doesn’t show any drastic improvements over other notebooks in performance. Although the performance in
all tests match the other netbooks, the battery life test shows that the 3-cell Joybook Lite lasts for just over two hours. That’s a bit better than 10-inch Lenovo
S10 and a lot more than the LG X110.
 

Video for Benq Joybook Lite U101

The BenQ has nothing more to offer in terms of performance or features. A set of necessary feature and looks is what it has going for it mostly. Being a very new product, BenQ hasn’t provided us a price for the Joybook Lite U101. Still, the BenQ Joybook Lite in our opinion is a good option should the price be around the Rs. 20,000 mark.

BenQ is best known for the LCD screens and optical drives but not so much for laptops in India. At first glimpse, things look very good for their new netbook. The...