Fujitsu LifeBook U Series
Processor: Intel Atom Z530, Intel Core i3 2367M, Intel Core i5 3317U, Intel Core i5 3427U, Intel Core i7 3667UGraphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 4000
Display: 5.6 inch, 13.3 inch, 14.0 inch
Weight: 0.5kg, 1.4kg, 1.6kg
Price: 600, 799, 1200 euro
Average of 17 scores (from 24 reviews)
mobility: 71%, workmanship: 68%, ergonomy: 71%, emissions: 83%
Fujitsu LifeBook UH900
Specifications
Notebook: Fujitsu LifeBook UH900Processor: Intel Atom Z530
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
Display: 5.6 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 0.5kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: Fujitsu homepage
Average Score:
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
Source: Hardware Central
Looking at a picture of the Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 on a bare table, you'd think it an odd contender in the notebook wars: What's with that relatively small screen centered in a big black bezel? Why is the keyboard layout so funky? Why are the USB ports on the front edge instead of the side or rear? How about it, Fujitsu? Add an inch, lose the touch screen, stretch the battery, say $750? We'd buy one. Maybe two, to keep one in the car.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/13/2010
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 60% features: 80%
Source: Pocketables
Despite its abysmal battery life, useless multitouch, and toy-like build quality, there's something about the Japanese version of the Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 that makes it really enjoyable to use. Whether it's the 2.0GHz Intel Atom processor, built-in WiMAX, touch-typable keyboard, excellent mouse controls, great performance, zippy SSD, or a combination of all those elements, I find it hard to put the elongated clamshell down.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/06/2010
Rating: performance: 90% mobility: 40% workmanship: 40%
Source: PC Advisor
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 is a little marvel when it comes to PC miniaturisation, but it's too small and cramped to use effectively. It's a device for consuming media rather than creating - it's very difficult to type on its little keyboard or use its undersized touchscreen. However, we do like the fact that it has an integrated 3.5G modem that can be used with the carrier of your choice.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/16/2010
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Good Gear Guide
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 is a little marvel when it comes to PC miniaturisation, but it's too small and cramped to use effectively. It's a device for consuming media rather than creating -- it's very difficult to type on its little keyboard or use its undersized touch screen. However, we do like the fact that it has an integrated 3.5G modem that can be used with the carrier of your choice.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/15/2010
Rating: Total score: 50%
Fujitsu LifeBook UH75
Specifications
Notebook: Fujitsu LifeBook UH75Processor: Intel Core i7 3667U
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Display: 14.0 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Links: Fujitsu homepage
Source: The Hikaku
JA→ENPositive: Relatively long battery life; Light weight; Very quiet; Very thin body. Negative: Viewing angle is not good; Touchpad buttons are difficult to press; High temperature.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/18/2012
Fujitsu LifeBook UH55
Specifications
Notebook: Fujitsu LifeBook UH55Processor: Intel Core i3 2367M
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels
Weight: 1.6kg
Links: Fujitsu homepage
Source: The Hikaku
JA→ENPositive: Body is very thin. Negative: Viewing angle is not good; Battery life; Noise value is slightly high.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/01/2012
Fujitsu LifeBook UH572
Specifications
Notebook: Fujitsu LifeBook UH572Processor: Intel Core i5 3317U
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels
Weight: 1.6kg
Price: 799 euro
Links: Fujitsu homepage LifeBook UH572 (Model)
Average Score:
Average of 6 scores (from 10 reviews)
Inexpensive ultrabook with business aspirations. Nowadays it is possible to step into the world of ultrabook for around EUR 800. However, these devices usually feature basic equipment. Fujitsu builds a UMTS modem into its 13.3 inch Lifebook UH572 for this price. Read in this review whether this ultrabook "made in Germany" can compete with the established competition.
Source: PC Advisor
Had Fujitsu given the Fujitsu Lifebook UH572 ethernet support and a more robust audio system, I could forgive the unimpressive performance—after all, most consumers won't be running heavy-duty spreadsheets or doing serious video editing. But general users do care about decent multimedia and a good keyboard, and Fujitsu's attention to industrial design and components fell sadly short in those areas, making it difficult to heartily endorse the UH572.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 07/23/2012
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: PC World
Had Fujitsu given the UH572 ethernet support and a more robust audio system, I could forgive the unimpressive performance—after all, most consumers won’t be running heavy-duty spreadsheets or doing serious video editing. But general users do care about decent multimedia and a good keyboard, and Fujitsu’s attention to industrial design and components fell sadly short in those areas, making it difficult to heartily endorse the UH572.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 07/17/2012
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: PC Magazin - Spezial 53 Ultrabooks
Comparison, , Length Unknown, Date: 02/01/2013
Rating: Total score: 72%
Source: PC Welt
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/27/2012
Rating: Total score: 78% performance: 85% features: 82% display: 79% mobility: 67% ergonomy: 81% emissions: 87%
Source: Notebookinfo
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/28/2012
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 85% display: 75% mobility: 75% ergonomy: 90% emissions: 83%
Source: Tom's Hardware
DE→ENPositive: good performance; good equipment; acceptable battery runtime
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/25/2012
Source: Techno Zoom
IT→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/21/2012
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 70% mobility: 60% workmanship: 70%
Source: 3DNews.ru
RU→ENPositive: Case design, quality materials and assembly, comfortable keyboard, good sound quality output, support 3G-modem. Negative: Connectivity; feeble display; speakers; relatively noisy and hot at maximum load.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/26/2012
Source: Notebook.cz
CZ→ENPositive: Becoming execution; 3G modem; easy accessibility of internal components. Negative: Worse sound integrated speakers; frequent starting and stopping of the fan; lack of LAN.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/13/2012
Source: Itsvet
HR→ENPositive: Quality development; excellent screen; pretty good performance; good autonomy.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/23/2013
Fujitsu LifeBook U772
Specifications
Notebook: Fujitsu LifeBook U772Processor: Intel Core i5 3427U
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Display: 14 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Price: 1200 euro
Links: Fujitsu homepage
Average Score:
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
Big screen, compact laptop. With its new Lifebook U772, Fujitsu launches a 15.6 mm (0.6 inches) thin ultrabook in a 13-inch case on the market. A highlight is the 14-inch screen installed in the chassis. Our review reveals whether these very promising components make a good ultrabook.
Source: PC Mag
As an ultrabook for the business user, the Fujitsu Lifebook U772 brings a lot to the table, with two-scoops of business-friendly features, seven-hour battery life, and light but sturdy construction. While it's not perfect—we would love to see Fujitsu drop the inertia scrolling and add a real Ethernet port—it's still very good. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon remains our Editors' Choice for business ultrabooks, but the Fujitsu is still a close competitor.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 09/28/2012
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Notebookinfo
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/05/2012
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 95% display: 70% mobility: 90% ergonomy: 65% emissions: 83%
Source: Tom's Hardware
DE→ENPositive: excellent performance; good equipment and display; U772 competes against better equipped devices
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/18/2012
Source: Erenumerique
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/29/2012
Rating: Total score: 75%
Fujitsu Lifebook U772-0M25R1DE
Specifications
Notebook: Fujitsu Lifebook U772-0M25R1DEProcessor: Intel Core i5 3317U
Graphics Adapter: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Display: 14.0 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Price: 1200 euro
Links: Fujitsu homepage
Average Score:
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
Source: Comp Reviews
Fujitsu's LifeBook U772 is a very compact and lightweight ultrabook for the business user that also offers some good overall performance. The problem is that the display and keyboard really hold it back from being a highly recommended system as there are options that are better that might cost more or similarly priced offerings that trade some weigh and size for better displays and keyboards.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/29/2012
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/21/2012
Rating: performance: 90% features: 30% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 50%
Source: Ultrabook King
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/08/2012
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 80% features: 90% display: 60% mobility: 80%
Source: Ultrabook Info
DE→ENPositive: very good mobility and security features; solid and high-quality body Negative: surfaces are susceptible to finger prints
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/04/2012
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 60%
Comment
Fujitsu: Fujitsu, founded 1935, is a Japanese company specializing in semiconductors, air conditioners, computers (supercomputers, personal computers, servers), telecommunications, and services, and is headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu employs around 160,000 people and has 500 subsidiary companies. The partnership with Siemens AG was established in 1999 in the form of Fujitsu Siemens Computers, one of Europe's largest IT hardware suppliers, and owned 50/50 by Fujitsu and Siemens. 2009, this cooperation was terminated. In future, no laptops will be sold with the brand "Fujitsu-Siemens" but only "Fujitsu".
These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500: Integrated (onboard) graphics chip on the UL11L, US15L, and US15W chipsets with a licensed PowerVR SGX core. DirectX 10.1 support but because of low clock rates (100-200 MHz UL11L - US15) and only 4 shaders not suited for 3D games. The integrated video decoder accelerates the playback of HD videos (MPEG2, VC-1, AVC).
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
Intel HD Graphics 4000: Processor graphics card in the high end Ivy Bridge models. Offers a different clock speed in the different CPU models (ULV to desktop quad core) and therefore a different performance.
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
Intel HD Graphics 3000: Integrated graphics card in the Intel Sandy Bridge processors (Core ix-2xxx). The HD 3000 is the faster (internally GT2 called) version with 12 Execution Units (EUs).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).
Z530:
Power saving version of the Atom N270 with additional Virtualization Support and more power saving techniques. The performance is equal to the N270 and therefore only suited for basic tasks.
Intel Core i7: The Intel Core i7 for laptops is based on the LG1156 Core i5/i7 CPU for desktops. The base clock speed of the CPUs is relatively low, but because of a huge Turbo mode, the cores can dynamically overclock to up to 3.2 GHz (920XM). Therefore, the CPU can be as fast as high clocked dual-core CPUs (using single threaded applications) but still offer the advantage of 4 cores. Because of the large TDP of 45 W / 55 W, the CPU is only intended for large laptops.
3667U: Fastest Ivy-Bridge-based ULV-CPU in Q2 2012. Offers a core clock of 2.0 - 3.2 GHz and an HD 4000 GPU (350 - 1150 MHz). The TDP is rated at 17 W.
Intel Core i3:
2367M: Power efficient ULV processor clocked at 1.4 GHz without Turbo boost. Offers an integrated HD 3000 clocked at slow 350 / 1000 MHz and a DDR3-1333 memory controller.
Intel Core i5:
3317U: Ivy-Bridge-based ULV-CPU in Q2 2012. Offers a core clock of 1.7 - 2.6 GHz and an HD 4000 GPU (350 - 1050 MHz). The TDP is rated at 17 W.
3427U: Fast Ivy-Bridge-based ULV-CPU in Q2 2012. Offers a core clock of 1.8 - 2.8 GHz and an HD 4000 GPU (350 - 1150 MHz). The TDP is rated at 17 W.
5.6: Up to now, this is the smallest format, which was used for UMPC, Netbooks or Subotebooks. There hardly exist any models with this display format. Working for a long time is uncomfortable. This tiny display is intended for outdoor usage.
The advantage is, that the mini-notebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few energy, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting for the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
13.3: This is a common display format for subnotebooks. Netbooks, UMPC and some subnotebooks have tinier displays. Nevertheless, the majority of standard laptops has a higher format. The advantage of a small display is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the small display needs few energy, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is a bit exhausting for the eyes, especially with high resolutions.
14.0: 14 inch display size is a mixture between the small formats of subnotebooks and the 15 inch standard display. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
0.5 kg:
This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist hardly any models in this extreme class of weight. 7-9 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
1.6 kg:
This sub-notebook weighs less than the average of all notebooks and represents a medium class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 11 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
70.24%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
