![]() I would have preferred a HEL80, but they're impossible to find in Australia. Slightly different aesthetics (eg HEL80 has wider mouse buttons).The proper HEL80 has an option to get a 1680x1050 (WSXGA+) matte screen instead of the WXGA glossy one.Real HEl80 ships with a 9-cell battery, this ships with a 6-cell one.This has plastic instead, and normal green/orange LEDs. Real HEL80 has blue LEDs and lots of aluminium/copper.The warranty is two years, handled by Intel.ĭifferences between this and the 'real' HEL80: If this becomes as popular as Centrino has been, it will mean that laptops are much easier to upgrade or repair. It's part of Intel's VBI (Verified By Intel) system, which means that it shares LCD panels, batteries, power adaptors, and wireless networking cards with other VBI laptops (like the Asus S96J). The EL80 is a version of that modified to suit Intel's needs. Compal make a model called the HEL80 which is then rebadged by a lot of companies. Compal's actually the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world (after Quanta), but you don't normally hear about them because they tend not to sell laptops under their own name (much like Foxconn and ECS are regarding mainboards). The item in question is a Compal ('Acces') EL80 barebone laptop. A couple of people asked me to write a mini-review of this if/when I bought it. ![]()
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