Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Sa 3650
Specifications
Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Sa 3650 (Amilo S Series)Processor: AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 512 MB
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 2.25kg
Price: 1250 euro
Average of 8 scores (from 9 reviews)
Reviews for the Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Sa 3650
There is no such thing as impossible! A compact 13.3 inch notebook, combined with a high performance graphic card of the type ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 – Impossible, you think? Wrong. With the Graphic Booster, FSC launches as one of the first manufacturers an external graphic card for notebooks, which can flare up an external screen when necessary, transforming your mobile office to a gaming device.
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Games Hardware - 4/09
Single Review, online available, Length Unknown, Date: 03/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 94% price: 70%
Source: Gamestar
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/02/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 85% features: 80% display: 60%
Source: PC Magazin - 3/09
Single Review, , Short, Date: 02/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% mobility: 40%
Source: Connect - 2/09
Single Review, , Very Short, Date: 02/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 100% features: 100%
Source: c't - 5/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 01/15/2009
Rating: performance: 90% display: 80% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 70%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/18/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 60% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 70% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 50% emissions: 80%
Source: ZDNet
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 90% features: 80% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 40%
Source: Notebookcheck
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 12/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 89% display: 70% mobility: 79% workmanship: 76% ergonomy: 75% emissions: 78%
Source: Nonstop Mobil
HU→ENComparison, online available, Medium, Date: 04/30/2009
Rating: price: 90% performance: 90%
Comment
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870: Higher clocked Mobilty Radeon HD 3850, also manufactured in 55 nm and with DirectX 10.1 support. The Avivo HD video engine helps the cpu in decoding HD videos.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
AMD Turion X2 Ultra: The AMD Turion X2 Ultra is part of the Puma platform and a mixture of the old K9 core (form the Turion 64 X2) and some parts of the K10 architecture (memorycontroller, hypertransport, crossbar switch from the Phenom). Because of the increased L2 cache ("Ultra" CPUs) and the improved memory controller, the performance increased a bit. Still a similar clocked Core 2 Duo is noticably faster.
ZM-86: Mixture out of two K8 based cores and K10 uncores (e.g. memory controller). Offers improved power saving functions compared to older Turion CPUs but still not as good and fast as a Core 2 Duo. The ZM-86 is the fastest CPU of the ZM series and a middle class CPU in 2008.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
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.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.25 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 13 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
Fujitsu-Siemens: 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 (FSC), one of Europe's largest IT hardware suppliers, and owned 50/50 by Fujitsu and Siemens. 2009, this cooperation was terminated, FSC ended to exist. In future, no laptops will be sold with the brand "Fujitsu-Siemens" but only "Fujitsu".
84.63%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
