Tuesday, May 07, 2019

New Purchase: iBall Compbook Excelance OHD

Lately I was looking for a compact laptop or netbook after I come across a smart one during a visit to doctor’s clinic and it was a MacBook for sure (which I'm certain apparently doesn’t need to define, as all apple products are smarter) and the way he dealt with it impressed me and produced a desire to buy one. I know I could not go near the MacBook that totally out of my budget and while come down the options were limited but still some renowned brands priced high the netbooks with specifications same as some local and unknown brands.  I did read many a reviews and comparisons on netbooks around 11 inches, anytime I felt and once get to know the Amazon Summer Offer is ahead, I took it seriously and settled at last for the Indian brand iBall – Compbook Excelance OHD – a Full HD netbook at around ₹9000 ($130) + 10% instant discount. 


I bought a chocolate colour compbook at a weight of about 1 kg and being a prime member of Amazon, compbook was delivered within 24 hrs of booking.  I was excited to power on the compbook (after 3 hrs of charging) and the first thing that stroked me was the spectacular color/contrast of the screen that turned the viewing stunning, enriched and refreshing sight! Thanks to IPS panel to turn things magical on screen and the 32GB emmc storage is left by 20 GB of free space and the 2 GB ram is unexpectedly quick for a leisurely operator alike me.  The multi-touch touchpad is super sensitive to my worn out fingers which lost track the gestures in the long run with my former laptop – what is still good and the compbook is only an alternate that I planned to use for  browsing, social networking and MS word.  Photoshop is strictly no on compbook so my laptop (Dell Inspiron) is the only choice for photo editing and storing data.  


The letter keys on compbook is bigger than the laptop to type but the location of shift, backspace and arrow keys are placed uncomfortable or I need to practice lot to make it usable.  The most impressive of the compbook was the battery that could run 8 hrs without charging, which means the netbook could last more than 2 days for my kind of use. The compbook comes with micro SD slot to expand storage up to 128 GB and also has option of adding internal HDD/SSD up to 1TB. I decided to do anything right now or until the system face trouble with speed or storage. It looks overall a good deal and could only wait and watch how worth the purchase was.  

10 comments:

L. D. said...

I really like my iBook but it took me a while to get use to the keyboard. It looks like you bought a great precut.

Kirtivasan Ganesan said...

Great you have bought a laptop. It seems very good.
Currently I have a Acer Windows 10 tablet with optional keyboard attachment. Currently,I am not clear whether to buy a scanner or buy a digital drawing pad say from Wacom. Meaning whether to draw in a paper and scan or draw directly from a Wacom.

Destination Infinity said...

I like netbooks, but the SSD storage is low and screen size is small. So I think I'll go with laptops for now. Yours has come at a great price!

Destination Infinity

Bill said...

Sounds like you got a great deal. Hopefully it will give you lots of enjoyment.

eileeninmd said...

Thanks for the review! I hope you enjoy your new laptop!
Enjoy your day and week ahead!

Twilight Man said...

This iBall is new to me. I am actually looking for a new computer now. I will check out if we have iBall in my country.

Lady Fi said...

Enjoy your new laptop.

carol l mckenna said...

Wonderful that you have a new computer ~ always fun and learning curve too ~ Not familiar with the iBall ~ enjoy!

Happy Day to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbour)

Nancy Chan said...

Hope you like your new iBall netbook and enjoy using it. For the time being, I will just stick to my PC which has a bigger screen and which I am so used to it.

Uppal said...

Congratulations! Hope that the screen is conveniently large enough!