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The WinBook J1 was WinBook's consumer laptop for the end of the Pentium III era, and one of the first manufactured by ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems). Starting with the J1 and X1, most of WinBook's laptops following those two would be made by ECS. Any WinBook laptop made by ECS is identifiable as so by the model number on the bottom of the laptop - if it follows the format of "Green" followed by three numbers, it's a rebadged ECS laptop. For example, the J1 was based off the ECS Green720 laptop. In general, these ECS models seemed to be pretty decent. Most of them from what I can tell used a metal rear display housing, which should drastically reduce long-term hinge failures.

As for the J1, it seems to be a fairly decent laptop. I don't own one, though I wish I did, but they are one of the more common of the WinBook laptops.

Specifications

• CPU: Intel Pentium III or Celeron. Specsheet doesn't list all clock available clock speeds, but they were within the 1.0GHz range. Ones I've seen on sale have 1.0GHz PIIIs, so those seem to be the most common.
• RAM: Up to 512MB, 100MHz 144-pin SDRAM. 1GB would likely work though, the specsheet was likely written before 512MB modules were made available.
• Hard Disk: Unknown
• HDD Type: 2.5" IDE
• Display Options: 12.1, 13.3, or 14.1" 1024x768 LCD
• GPU: Trident Cyberblade II
• VRAM: 2-8MB shared with system RAM.
• Sound: VIA VT1611A, AC97, Sound Blaster, Direct Sound, WDM compatible
• Operating System (Shipping): Windows Me or 2000
• Main Battery: Lithium Ion or NiMH
• CMOS Battery: Unknown
• Power Supply: External
• Expansion: 1x type II 32-bit CardBus slot (supports ZoomVideo)
• Internal Drives: 1.44MB Floppy AND DVD/CD-ROM built-in (3-spindle design)
• Other I/O: Parallel, Serial, 2x USB 1.1, VGA Out, Line Out, Mic In
• BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0
• Pointing Device: Trackpad

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