Review: Fujitsu's U810 UMPC
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Nov 2007 16:20 UTC, submitted by anonymous
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless "Of all the ultra-mobile PC's that arrived and will be arriving in 2007, Fujitsu's has been the most highly awaited. That's a serious claim, but as soon as people got a look at this device they started to get excited about it. After all, the first generation of UMPCs had some high points, but they missed the mark in a number of areas. The hope was that the arrival of the next generation would mark a considerable improvement."
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Nice, but a few questions...
by Flatland_Spider on Tue 13th Nov 2007 17:19 UTC
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2006-09-01

I've been watching the U810 for a while now, and I'm seriously impressed with it. My initial plans were to replace the hard drive with a SSD to ruggedize it a little bit, so I wouldn't have to lug my 15" Thinkpad around on trips.

The only catches are the price, and I'm not sure about touchscreen support in Linux/FreeBSD. $999 is a nice price, especially for this price of other UMPCs without an actual keyboard, but it's a little bit more then used IBM/Lenovo X-series who don't have compatibility questions.

Hopefully this will survive to be based on the Intel Silverthorne platform.

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Uh.
by Buck on Tue 13th Nov 2007 19:53 UTC
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2005-06-29

Looking at the pictures a sentence by Salad Fingers springs to mind: "What is this rather queer-looking contraption?"
Sorry, Fujitsu fans...

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RE: Uh.
by drynwhyl on Tue 13th Nov 2007 20:19 UTC in reply to "Uh."
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2006-05-14

Queer looking and has Vista on it. Bad decision. A lot of people nowadays would rather go queer than run Vista (rightly so). I doubt the target group of queer Vista fetishists is large enough to make this one profitable.

Well, all the more customers for Asus and the Eee.

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eeepc?
by esper on Tue 13th Nov 2007 21:46 UTC
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2005-07-08

To me, the eeepc and olpc are much better alternatives to the UMPCs.

Who wants to pay $1000 for a small laptop?

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RE: eeepc?
by dagw on Wed 14th Nov 2007 11:48 UTC in reply to "eeepc?"
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2005-07-06

I'll leave the olpc out of this since it is very different and not at all in the same market segment as the U810.

$1000 is not a lot of money for a laptop. It also comes with a much better screen than the eee pc and it's even smaller and lighter. The initial reports also seem to indicate better battery life. The screen folds back to a tablet PC configuration, which I certainly consider a huge plus.

So all in all the U810 is a better laptop than the eee pc in every way. If it's worth the extra money or not for a better laptop is of course up to each person. And to answer your question, I'd happily $1000 for a small laptop that met my requirements.

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not bad
by broken_symlink on Wed 14th Nov 2007 00:45 UTC
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2005-07-06

i think the price is quite reasonable, considering what the sony umpc's cost.

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Retro
by hyperdaz on Wed 14th Nov 2007 01:07 UTC
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2007-06-05

That is just SO 80's retro ;) how sweet n cool ;) ...

I bet atari portfolio is a little faster ;) to boot and get into apps...

:D

dont worry I know the history

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RE: Retro
by Different on Wed 14th Nov 2007 03:59 UTC in reply to "Retro"
Different Member since:
2007-07-03

Yup, you are right about abt looking like the Atari PortFolio but PortFolio is a basic DOS based machine in a very small form factor

This is much more ;)

However the memory and processor may not handle demanding apps

Pair this with ThinServer XP as your back end application server and you are good to go ;)

http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm

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