Laptops Arena

Fujitsu announced today the next potential star from the "LifeBook" family, the P7230 laptop. Until now, there are no technical specifications available for this model designed by Kenichi Kimura. The current model from LifeBook 7000 series feature a 10-inch widescreen display capable of outdoor viewing, a long battery life up to 11 hours and an Intel’s ultra-low voltage processors.

Fujitsu LifeBook P7230 laptop, designed by the Chief Designer and Design Consultant of the Fujitsu's Personal Solution Design Departament, Kenichi Kimura, appears with ulltra clean lines and curves. Kenichi Kamura also designed a DJ turntable laptop concept and a origami concept notebook.

The LifeBook P7230 is unfortunately unavailable for the moment but will soon be launched by Fujitsu.

Fujitsu’s new LifeBook A3110 differs from other laptops : It’s white.

The lid, keyboard, and touchpad are colored in white, but there are few silver accents on the front edge, and the system's bottom is traditional gray.

Fujitsu LifeBook A3110 also differs by an unique hard-drive-protecting shock sensor. After this unique parts(design and security for hard-drive), there are also bad things to say about it : a poor four-cell battery which is too small for a system that features an AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processor and a 15.4-inch wide-screen display.(it's a mainstream laptop)

Fujitsu LifeBook A3110 is now available, priced at $1,399 ($1,249 after mail-in rebate for purchases before December 31, 2006).

Fujitsu is taking the mobile PC one step further.

The PC manufacturer is in France this week showing off a prototype of a laptop that folds down into the size and shape of a CD case. Whether or not the company moves forward to develop and market the purse-sized laptop largely will depend on the reaction it receives at the International Industrial Design Fair, according to Sean Nemoto, a spokesman for Fujitsu.

"Pretty much, the fate of the prototype rests with the response we get," he said. "Normally, the lightweight mobile PC is for the businessman because he always carries a mobile PC and handset. This should reach beyond the businessman. This is quite unique."

The prototype, called the Ultra Mobile PC, is the size of a CD case when it's folded up. Then the user flips open an 8-inch display screen, just like he or she would on a normal laptop. But at this stage, the keyboard still is hidden. The user then flips open the keyboard, lifting it from left to right to open it up. When it's open, the keyboard will be about 16 inches wide, said Nemoto, who added that designers have been working on this for about a year.

He also said the laptop would be "very much lighter" than a normal notebook, but they're not yet sure what the exact weight would be. He also said they haven't made any decisions about what processor the machines would run or about any of the operating specifications.

"It's quite hard to say because it's a prototype and we need to consider [a lot of things] before we decide to commercialize," said Nemoto, speaking to InformationWeek from the design fair in France. "We haven't gotten to the production phase. There will be many discussions about this."

The design fair starts on Wednesday and runs through to early next week.

Via informationweek.

Fujitsu Siemens has a track record of offering an enormous range of laptops with a huge choice of processors, so it's no surprise that it is backing Intel's new Core Duo processor with a vengeance.

Our review sample of the AMILO Pi 1505 sported a T2050 Core Duo that runs at 1.6GHz on a 533MHz FSB.

This is the slowest of the three dual-core options, although you could instead have a 1.8GHz Core Solo but we strongly favour the extra performance of dual core.

We got the bare minimum 512MB of DDR2 memory, although you can install up to 2GB in two modules, but despite the fairly lowly specification we found that performance in PCMark05 was very impressive, and presumably there is more to come if you opt for a faster processor.

Although the 60GB Fujitsu hard drive has a relatively small capacity its 5,400rpm spin speed contributes to the healthy performance of this laptop.

Read full review here.

If UMPCs make you cringe and notebooks just make you yawn, then do take a look at the new Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 Tablet PC ! Not only is it easy on the eyes but also has the current fav Core 2 Duo Technology under its pretty hood.

The Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 Tablet PC is an upgrade to the T4210 and is identical to it looks wise. When it comes to the specs, the Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 does promise goodies like 12.1-inch LCD options, like XGA for indoor and / or outdoor use and SXGA+ for indoors, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g and up to 120GB hard drive.

So far so good and looks like Fujitsu may just get it right this time. The Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 promises six hours of battery life and would run on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 OS.

Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 is now available and expect a $1,799 price tag on the base model.

Via mobilewhack.