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The S6311 retails for just over AU$2600, weighs in at around 1.9Kg, and at its heart has an Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU running at 2.0Ghz, coupled together with 2.0GB of 667Mhz DDR2 RAM to really get this thing moving along, and as the model we have is running Windows Vista Business, the more ram the better.
The S6311 is styled with Fujitsu’s (what seems to be standard) black on dark grey colour scheme, giving it a sleek and professional appearance that is sure to appeal to Fujitsu’s target demographic. It’s certainly not too fancy looking, but you’d never be embarrassed to bring it out in a presentation or on a plane.
Getting onto the performance of the S6311 - With PCMark05 the S6311 gets a score of 3355, a little bit down on the similar spec T4215 we reviewed a few weeks ago, but that is mostly due to the S6311 running Vista instead of XP, so a small performance drop is somewhat expected, although still very much at the top end of current notebook performance, so all your programs, even the more intensive ones will run without a problem. The hard drive is a Serial ATA 120GB unit which Fujitsu partition into two 60GB drives, so hard drive speed and storage space shouldn’t be a problem for a while at least.
3D and gaming performance is reasonable but certainly not great, using an integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 display chipset which shares system memory, it’s about on par with a Radeon X600 mobile chipset, and the S6311’s high CPU power helps compensate for some of the graphics chipset’s shortfalls. It’s not great performance by any means, but able to run basic 3D games and applications without too much of an issue provided you don’t expect huge resolutions and high detail levels.
The screen of the S6311 gives a very bright a vividly clear image on its 13.3” non-widescreen LCD display, but is limited to a resolution of 1024x768, which can be a bit limiting nowadays with some applications and web pages.
