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The Q2010 is certainly a good looking, well designed notebook, with a light on dark grey colour scheme, that looks a lot more chic than many other notebooks on the market today. The Q2010 has a side-on profile of just 19.9mm, and weighs in at just on 1Kg – this is what they’re talking about when they say ‘Ultra-Portable’.
The Q2010 Side Profile
The Q2010 is bundled with a docking station, which is necessary at times, because in the notebook itself there is no optical drive to load your software or play movies, so you must attach it to the docking station for that purpose.
The docking station can also be used as a charging base, or the charger can be plugged into the notebook itself if you’re out and about and running low on juice. The docking station is also recessed at the rear to accommodate the additional large capacity battery that is included as standard with the Q2010. It may seem an obvious inclusion, but we’ve seen worse omissions in the past with other notebooks.
The docking station also includes a few ports that the notebook unit does not, such as a network port and an external VGA port for running dual screens or running a projector. VGA and network connections are available without using the docking station through an included dongle that has both ports. Extra USB ports are also included on the docking station. The docking station also includes four extra USB ports.
The omissions of the optical drive and VGA/network ports from the main unit are made to keep the notebook as small, light and power friendly as possible. Even its CPU is a ULV (ultra low voltage) model, running at just 1.2Ghz to reduce power consumption. With the standard battery Fujitsu claims it will last for 1.7 hours, and up to 7 hours with the high capacity battery, but if you light have your screen brightness all the way up, take a bit off both these figures.
Unfortunately having such low Power consumption means it suffers in the performance side of things, meaning it’s certainly not going to challenge your desktop for speed, but if you’re going to buy a tiny, ultra portable notebook such as the Q2010, or anything else similar for that matter, that’s the sacrifice you have to make.
