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| Fujitsu LifeBook U1010 (3.5G) Notebook Review |
| 2 - Battery and Connectivity |
| 3 - Screen and Input |
| 4 - Conclusion |
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Today we’re looking at the LifeBook U1010 from Fujitsu, an Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) claimed by Fujitsu
to be the world’s smallest. We see if it’s any good.
The first thing that strikes you when you take the U1010 out of the box is of course its size, it’s closer in size to a PDA than a normal notebook computer, I can span my hand over the top of it (lengthways) and still have about 4cm of my thumb hanging over the size, so describing it as small doesn’t quite cut it.
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What do you get?
Surprisingly Fujitsu have managed to cram quite a lot of features into this notebook/Tablet PC for the price (selling online for around AU$1720), its specifications are as follows:
- Intel A110 Ultra Mobile CPU (800MHz, 512k L2 Cache, 400MHz FSB)
- 1GB 400MHz DDR2 Memory
- 40GB 1.8” Parallel ATA, Ultra-100 Hard Drive
- 5.6-Inch SuperFine WideScreen LCD, (1024x600 Resolution), Passive Touch Panel
- Integrated Intel Graphics
- Atheros Super AG Wireless Adapter
- Realtek 100Base Ethernet (Via Dongle)
- Integrated Web Cam (0.3MegaPixel)
- 56-Key Keyboard w. Fingerprint Reader
- 3.5G Mobile Broadband Support (Up to 3.6Mbps)
- Realtek ALC262 HD Audio, Built In Speaker and Digital Microphone
- Other Ports: 3.5mm HD Audio In/Out, 1 x USB2.0, RGB Video Out, Flash Card Readers (CF+SD), Bluetooth v2.0
- Dimensions: 171mm x 133mm x 32mm(max) (WxDxH)
- Weight: 630grams
- 2-Cell Li-Ion 2600mAh Battery
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business
Not a bad list of specs for a notebook weighing in at 630grams. It doesn’t focus much on performance, as you can obviously see, but rather simply being small, light and still highly functional with reasonable battery life. The new A110 processor from Intel, which runs at a blistering 800MHz, uses an extremely small amount of power and therefore its heat output is also low, meaning it’s rather efficient.
Don’t even think about getting this notebook if you’re after high performance, it just doesn’t exist. The processor is slow, there’s only 1GB of RAM which is not a lot for running Vista, and cannot be upgraded, the hard drive is only a 1.8” Parallel ATA-100, so you’re not going to get much help there. We aren’t able to bring you a PCMark score to compare to other notebooks we’ve tested in the past, because the U1010’s display resolution of 1024x600 is not large enough to run some of the tests. We tried running it on the external display connection, but it didn’t like this either.
As a simple test we wanted to see if it could play a standard Xvid movie, using Media Player Classic, and while yes it could play it, it would only do so if nothing else at all was running in the background, and the video was already on the U1010’s local hard drive. Trying to stream it over the wireless network, which is easily fast enough for most other notebooks to cope with for the same type of video, was something the U1010 simply couldn’t handle.
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|88.122.245.xxx |2008-05-08 18:19:52 F.Moreau - M.Seems an interesting machine, if only Fuji did not install that crappy bloatsystem that Vista is on it... I'm sure XP would fly on this system, and would make the battery last longer.
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|124.170.255.xxx |2008-05-25 14:36:44 Daniel W - 3.5G/AUSStrangely enough, all the mobile broadband over SIM cards in Australia (except Telstra, of course) run over 2100Mhz HSDPA (What you would call 3.5G). So I can only assume either the SIM is actually quite old (no 3G network access rule), or Vodafone won't let the notebook register on its network.. I'd have no clue why though.
Or maybe you just forgot the *99# dialer? :)
