FUJITSU 15.4" INTEL 1GB LAPTOP 299.95euro

bitteralarm

Just got a fujitsu laptop on powercity.ie for only 299.95 euro.

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-30-FS1GB&brands=FUJITSU

15.4" SCREEN , INTEL CELERON M560 PROCESSOR , 1GB RAM AND 120GB HARD DISK , BURNS AND PLAYS DVDS AND CDS, VISTA HOME BASIC

seems like great value.

Alanstrainor

link doesn't work. And it's a bit of a ****e laptop, even for 300 quid. Celeron processor + 1Gb of RAM + Vista = nightmare. Even upgrading the RAM would leave you with a poor machine. I'd rather buy a netbook.

Rsaeire

A better value laptop can be found, like the Dell Inspiron 1545 for €429 including P&P.



- Intel® Celeron Dual Core T3000
- Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1
- 15.6" Widescreen WXGA CCFL (1366 x 768) TFT
- 3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048 + 1x1024]
- 250GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
- Intel Integrated GMA 4500MHD
- 4-cell 24WHr Li-Ion primary battery
- Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g)

pajoemccracken

The dell looks good, If only I could.....
i will have to accidently drop my old one.

cormon

Cool enough Bitteralarm, hope it work out well for you

You will do some serious tweaking to get that bad boy running smootly though and do not install too much bloatware or you will be nailed in preformance.

Kevin..

asharkman

Rsaeire wrote: »

A better value laptop can be found, like the Dell Inspiron 1545 for €429 including P&P.

That is actually a nice piece of kit for 430.

Boggles

Rsaeire wrote: »

A better value laptop can be found, like the Dell Inspiron 1545 for €429 including P&P.



- Intel® Celeron Dual Core T3000
- Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1
- 15.6" Widescreen WXGA CCFL (1366 x 768) TFT
- 3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048 + 1x1024]
- 250GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
- Intel Integrated GMA 4500MHD
- 4-cell 24WHr Li-Ion primary battery
- Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g)

Processor and Battery are poor.

unklerosco

Boggles wrote: »

Processor and Battery are poor.

Yep, n its €130 more than the power city one..

ttm

unklerosco wrote: »

Yep, n its €130 more than the power city one..

But your getting almost twice the computer.

Rsaeire

Boggles wrote: »

Processor and Battery are poor.

Since the Dell was posted as a comparison to the Fujitsu, let's have a look at the differences in their respective CPUs below:


Intel Celeron T3000

Clock speed: 1.8 GHz
# of cores: 2
L2 cache: 1 MB
FSB: 800 MHz
Lithography: 45 nm
Max TDP: 35 W

Intel Celeron 560

Clock speed: 2.13 GHz
# of cores: 1
L2 cache: 1 MB
FSB: 533 MHz
Lithography: 65 nm
Max TDP: 31 W


What the above serves to demonstrate is that the CPU in the Dell not only has an additional core, making it a dual-core processor, it also has a higher FSB, ensuring access to RAM is faster, a smaller die size, ensuring lower power consumption and less heat is generated, and it does all this with only an additional 11% more TDP, even with an additional core.

In addition, there is no mention of the battery type on the Powercity website, so it's safe to assume the battery types are, at the very least, comparable. Also, if the Fujitsu model, an LI2727 I believe, is the same model on the Argos UK website, then the Dell offers, in addition to my previous comments, the following:

- a higher resolution display; 1366 x 768 vs 1280 x 800
- Better graphics processing with HD decoding; Intel 4500MHD vs Intel X3100
- Bigger hard drive; 250 GB vs 120 GB
- 3x more ram; 3 GB vs 1 GB.
- Better OS; Vista Home Premium vs Vista Home Basic

Going by the above, the Dell is definitely the better deal.

Since I'm assuming the Fujitsu on the Argos UK website is the same as on Powercity's website, which seems very likely given the price, I may as well note that the battery life quoted is "2.2 hours battery life (depending on usage)", which would indicate the battery on the Dell and Fujitsu laptops are, in fact, comparable.

boopolo

Processor and Battery are poor.

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For €429, not that poor.

Although it is a celeron it is dual core from 45nm wafer.

The battery can be upgraded to 6 cell for €20.

Free upgrade to Windows 7 when it is launched.

4GB RAM @800mhz

250GB HD


For those that an 'Atom' netbook is not sufficent for their needs; this seems a good alternative around the €400 mark.

boopolo

Ordered the above Dell with T4200 processor upgrade, for my daughter.
Total price including delivery: €464.

Although, it will seldom be used on battery, I would reckon it was worth half the extra €35 for speedstep of the pentium and the other half for the extra mhz

docdolittle

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164329

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Rsaeire

docdolittle wrote: »

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164329

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Not a bad price, especially as the cheapest Toshiba Satellite Pro L300 Elara have is €375, after €55 cashback, with an Intel Celeron M900 processor and a 160 GB hard drive.

boopolo

X2 QL-64 processor:(

Don't know a lot about the AMDs but that processor performs even slower than the one in my three year old laptop (T2500) and way behind the T4200 above even with it's 2mb L2.
At £349.97 + £10 p&p it is coming in a €410. It has a built in webcam, but only 3GB RAM. It has a standard 15.4" (1,280 x 800) widescreen as opposed to the 15.6" (1366 x 768) super?widescreen.

Effluo

bitteralarm wrote: »

Just got a fujitsu laptop on powercity.ie for only 299.95 euro.

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-30-FS1GB&brands=FUJITSU

15.4" SCREEN , INTEL CELERON M560 PROCESSOR , 1GB RAM AND 120GB HARD DISK , BURNS AND PLAYS DVDS AND CDS, VISTA HOME BASIC

seems like great value.

I think that's a fair enough bargain alert!

Yeah the processor sucks like anteater......

But find me another deal like that for €299!
Stick another gig of ram in their and for the majority of users which lets face it people only use a few apps. It's quite a capable machine.

Good for grannies and mammy's if nothing else