Being relatively unknown and small player in the notebook market, Benq has craved a niche market for well designed, light full featured notebooks. My first notebook bought in 2005 was the Benq Joybook 7000. It was bought second hand in Sim Lim square for S$1,400. Back then, it is a good buy given its dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card with 64MB of RAM and 2.05kg weight (with 6 Cell battery).
It is a widescreen 14" notebook powered by the then new, less power hungry Pentium M 715 (1.5Ghz 2MB L2 Cache). It uses the Intel 855PM chipset and upgraded to a 60GB hard disk. The memory is also upgraded to 512MB. A DVD+RW is built-into the notebook. For connectivity, it has a 56k modem, Intel 2200 b/g wireless, 10/100 Ethernet LAN port and Infrared. Ports include 4 x USB2.0 ports, 1 x PCMCIA slot, 1 x IEEE1394 (FireWire) port, 1 x RJ-45, 1 x RJ-11, VGA output, S-Video and 3-in-1 card reader (supports SD,MMC, Memory Stick). The model came with Windows XP Home edition.
The keyboard is full sized which makes typing pleasant but feels plastic. My notebook overheat at least for the second half of '05/ '06 until I changed to my current Dell notebook and bring the benq notebook to be repaired at its service center. Its service center is at Sembawang and the fastest way in is taxi. Public transport is lacking at the area. Despite its age, it is still capable of running normal office application and the occasional games like starcraft, warcraft III etc.
I have since passed it to my brother for his own usage and will always remembered as my first self-paid notebook and opens me to the world of portability.
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