Fujitsu P8010: barely lighter than Air at a competitive price
Fujitsu’s P8010 notebook caught the eye of jkOTR reader Nomo and I can see why. This lappy offers an LED backlit 12.1-inch WXGA display, integrated optical drive, four three USB ports, SD card reader and PC Card slot, yet weighs 2.9-pounds. It’s powered by a low-voltage Intel Core 2 Duo, the SL7100 rated at 1.2 GHz and starts out with a GB of RAM. There’s two memory slots that can each handle up to a 2 GB stick, but the base model uses a 512 MB module in each. An 80 GB, 5400 RPM SATA drive also comes in the base model, but you can go up to 200 GB of storage from there. Fujitsu rates the 6-cell, 8700 mAh at 6.5 hours, but I suspect the real world time would be more like five. Still, that kind of battery life thanks to the choice of CPU combined with LED backlighting on the display might get you through a full day of computing; a spare battery would surely do it.Prices start at $1,699 for a P8010 running Microsoft Windows XP Professional but of course you can bump the specs to include Vista (at no extra charge), more memory or storage. I like the standard options included on all models at these prices: integrated webcam, Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g/n, and fingerprint reader.
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Thanks for the shoutout, Kevin. A quick clarification: there are three USB ports on the laptop and four on the port replicator.
My bad on the USB ports. I need to clean my glasses; fixed and thanks!
All it needs is an active digitizer!
I’m really looking forward to this. I am a very big fan of the P7230.
I wish our loyal leaders would respond to the “it’s not an active digitizer” comment. I once spotted a great deal on a tablet, and wrote in, but our Supreme Leader told me to avoid it like the plague because it did not have an active digitizer. Could we please revisit this question, perhaps in a separate post? THANKS.
Al, I think what sbtablet was saying in the comment was that it would make for a nice Tablet PC. It’s not a tablet, it’s a notebook and has neither touch nor an active digitizer.
As far as avoiding touch-only tablets, there’s definitely some personal preference here plus other factors like screen-size. On a standard-sized tablet, say 12.1-inches, I personally would prefer an active digitizer or a combo of touch and active. On a smaller device, I can make do with touch only, i.e.: my Samsung Q1P. Of course the exception to this school of thought is the Fujitsu P1610/P1620, which is touch only but has outstanding palm rejection. Bear in mind that people have different writing styles which also play into this. Even if you have a Tablet PC with both touch and active, if you rest your palm first and then lay down the pen, you’ll cause vectoring.