Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo X Series

Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60, AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86, Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, Intel Core 2 Duo T7250, Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, Intel Core Duo T2300
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650, ATI Mobility Radeon X1800, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
Display: 15.4 inch, 17.1 inch
Weight: 3kg, 3.6kg, 4kg
800, 1200, 1249, 1299, 1300
Average Score: 83.92% - good
Average of 25 scores (from 40 reviews)price: 85%, performance: 80%, features: 73%, display: 71%
mobility: 49%, workmanship: 85%, ergonomy: 77%, emissions: 71%

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi1526

Notebook Specifications

Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi1526
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5500
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 256 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 4kg
Links: Fujitsu-Siemens homepage

Average Score: 95% - very good
Average of 2 scores (from 4 reviews)

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1526
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/05/2007
performance: 90%

Groß und stark
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 11/16/2006
performance: 90%

93% Doppelkern-Kraftwerke
Source: SFT
, Length Unknown, Date: 11/16/2006
Rating: Total score: 93% price: 90% features: 80%

97% Formel Zwei
Source: TV Movie Multimedia
, Length Unknown, Date: 11/16/2006
Rating: Total score: 97% performance: 90% features: 80%

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi1546

Notebook Specifications

Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi1546
Processor: Intel Core Duo T2300
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 256 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 4kg
Links: Fujitsu-Siemens homepage

Average Score: 82.75% - good
Average of 8 scores (from 12 reviews)

 

Fujitsu t4215 Review
Source: OurNotebookReviews
The Xi is also rather quiet and it best of all, it doesn’t squeak nearly as much as my old Inspiron used to. My overall impression is that the build quality seems to be very good. Like most things high tech it has it’s quirks and downsides but overall I’d say it’s a damn fine piece of technology.
kurzer subjektiver Erfahrungsbericht eines Benutzers; online abrufbar

Display hervorragend, Verarbeitung sehr gut
User Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 03/15/2007
Rating: display: 95% workmanship: 90%

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi1546
Source: PC Advisor
Fujitsu Siemens is a name generally associated with solid, reliable and somewhat unspectacular PCs. This release, we suspect, is going to do nothing to change the company's functional image. It may not be thrilling, but the Amilo Xi1546 is a decent laptop. A mid-range T2400 mobile processor from Intel provides the power. Teamed up with 1GB of DDR RAM, it helped the Fujitsu-Siemens to a respectable score of 95 in our WorldBench 5 test suite. The specification of the Amilo is very decent and it's well put together. This unremarkable laptop will get on quietly without a fuss, like all good PCs should, leaving you to concentrate on your work or entertainment. It's fairly priced, too.
minimal ausgestatteter Kurz-Test; online abrufbar

Preis/Leistung günstig
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 08/14/2006
Rating: price: 85%

80% Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546
Source: Chip.de
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 90% display: 90% workmanship: 80%

93% Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/05/2007
Rating: Total score: 93% price: 80% performance: 80%

80% Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/05/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 90% display: 80%

76% Desktop-Ersatz
Source: Chip.de
online available, Very Short, Date: 11/04/2006
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 95% performance: 75% features: 68% display: 80% mobility: 50% ergonomy: 91%

90% Super Gerät
Source: Preissuchmaschine
online available, Very Short, Date: 10/21/2006
Rating: Total score: 90%

76% Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi1546
Source: Connect
online available, Very Short, Date: 10/15/2006
Rating: Total score: 76% performance: 89% features: 89% ergonomy: 65%

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi1546
Source: c't
online available, Short, Date: 09/05/2006
Rating: performance: 80% display: 85%

76% Günstiges Zocker-Notebook
Source: Chip.de
online available, Short, Date: 08/28/2006
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 85% performance: 82% features: 66% display: 73% mobility: 50% ergonomy: 91%

91% Notebooks für alle Fälle - Spiele-Notebooks
Source: SFT
online available, Short, Date: 08/15/2006
Rating: Total score: 91% performance: 90%

Leistungsfähiges Multimedia-Monster mit Macken
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Very Short, Date: 07/28/2006
performance: 85%

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2528

Notebook Specifications

Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2528
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 256 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 4kg
Price: 1299 euro
Links: Fujitsu-Siemens homepage
 Amilo Xi2528 (Model)

Average Score: 82.71% - good
Average of 7 scores (from 9 reviews)

 

90% Fujitsu-Siemens - Amilo Xi2528 review
Source: IT Reviews
At first glance, Fujitsu-Siemen's Amilo Xi2528 looks like any other desktop replacement; in fact it looks more suited to the corporate environment than the home, with its sober dark grey and silver finish. But under the skin there are some surprises - no, make that real surprises - that make it an ideal system for the home.
The old saying "Never judge a book by its cover" is very apt for the Amilo Xi2528. It may look a bit of plain Jane on the outside, but inside Fujitsu-Siemens has bundled nearly every desirable feature you can think of. If they upped the graphics spec this would be one Hell of a system, but as it is it's a very capable, well priced desktop replacement notebook.
sehr gut, Preis/Leistung gut, Leistung mäßig
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/16/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 60%

84% Test Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi2528 Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Long, Date: 12/27/2007
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 92% display: 80% mobility: 50% workmanship: 86% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 80%

Ganz etwas Großes
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 1-2/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 12/12/2007
Rating: performance: 90% display: 80% emissions: 40%

92% Notebook oder PC? - Notebooks bis 1.299 Euro
Source: PC Praxis - 1/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 12/07/2007
Rating: Total score: 92% price: 80% mobility: 50%

76% FSC AMILO Xi 2528 T7700
Source: Connect - 12/07
, Short, Date: 11/29/2007
Rating: Total score: 76% performance: 97% features: 86% mobility: 59% ergonomy: 63%

70% Silberne Lichtblicke an der Amilo-Front
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 11/16/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 30% features: 30% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%

Für ein paar Euro mehr
Source: c't - 23/07
, Long, Date: 10/16/2007
Rating: performance: 80% features: 80% display: 70% mobility: 30% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 70%

87% Mobiles Spielzeug
Source: Computerbild - 20/07
, Medium, Date: 09/15/2007
Rating: Total score: 87% price: 80% performance: 91% features: 79% display: 90% mobility: 73% ergonomy: 79% emissions: 87%

80% Gamestarbook - FSC Amilo Xi2528
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 09/14/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 50% features: 90% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 90%

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2428

Notebook Specifications

Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2428
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 256 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 3kg
Price: 1249 euro
Links: Fujitsu-Siemens homepage

Average Score: 83% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)

 

83% Starker Multimedia Allrounder
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Long, Date: 12/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 93% features: 80% display: 80% mobility: 65% workmanship: 86% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 80%

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2550

Notebook Specifications

Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi2550
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7250
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1920x1200 pixels
Weight: 4kg
Price: 1300 euro
Links: Fujitsu-Siemens homepage

Average Score: 84% - good
Average of 6 scores (from 9 reviews)

 

80% FSC Amilo Xi 2550
Source: Techradar
Good performance and an impressive specification, but lacking in quality. The Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 2550 (£999 inc. VAT) is aimed at the casual gamer who doesn't need two graphics cards or the fastest possible performance. As such, it's a lot more affordable than much of the competition, and its smaller size is more practical for day-to-day use. The 17-inch Super-TFT screen is impressive, offering lots of detail and good contrast.
4 von 5, Preis gut, Ausstattung gut, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% features: 80% mobility: 80%

80% Fujitsu Siemens Amilo XI 2550
Source: Chip.de - 6/08
, Short, Date: 06/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% ergonomy: 80%

Flotter Maximalist
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 5-6/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/18/2008
Rating: performance: 90% display: 80%

FSC Amilo Xi2550 T9300 ATI HD-2700
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 04/17/2008
Rating: price: 100% performance: 90% features: 60% display: 100% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 80%

84% Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 2550 (Notebook)
Source: Chip.de
online available, Medium, Date: 04/02/2008
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 81% features: 97% display: 73% mobility: 41% ergonomy: 76%

Für Spiele
Source: c't - 7/08
, Long, Date: 03/15/2008
Rating: performance: 90% features: 90% display: 80% mobility: 30% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 90%

90% FSC AMILO Xi2550 ATI HD-2700
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 03/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 70% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 90%

80% FSC AMILO Xi2550 ATI HD-2700
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 12/19/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 60% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 80%

90% Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Xi 2550
Source: PC Actual
online available, Very Short, Date: 05/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 86%

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xa2528

Notebook Specifications

Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xa2528
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 4kg
Price: 800 euro
Links: Fujitsu-Siemens homepage
 Amilo Xa2528 (Model)

 

Ganz was Großes!
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 3-4/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/22/2008
Rating: performance: 90% display: 80% mobility: 40% emissions: 40%

Alles dabei - 17 Zoll-Notebooks ab 750 Euro
Source: c't - 6/08
, Long, Date: 02/15/2008
Rating: performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 30% emissions: 70%

Angriff auf den Heim-Computer
Source: Guter Rat! - 2/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/17/2008
Rating: emissions: 40%

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xa3530

Notebook Specifications

Notebook: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xa3530
Processor: AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 3.6kg
Price: 1200 euro
Links: Fujitsu-Siemens homepage
 Amilo Xa3530 (Model)

Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)

 

80% FSC Amilo Xa3530
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 10/28/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 50% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 70% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 60%

Multimedia-Alleskönner mit neuer AMD-CPU im Test
Source: e-media - 13/08
online available, Medium, Date: 06/15/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% features: 80%

 

Comment

Fujitsu-Siemens:

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Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600: The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 is a middle class video card of the 7000 series and suited for games of the year 2006. The performance is very similar to ATI X1600 / X1700. Compared to the desktop 7600 it is clearly slower.

These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.

ATI Mobility Radeon X1800: The ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 is a reduced version of the X1800XT with still a high current consumption.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7600 / 7700 for laptops and technically a higher clocked 8400M GT. The performance is slightly above the 7600 / 7700 and, therefore, it can represent DirectX9 games fluently. For DirectX 10 effects, the power of the card is not sufficient.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700: It is a higher clocked HD 2600 and intended competitor to the 8600M GT middle class graphic card. Furthermore, this video card offers some video functions (Avivo HD).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).

>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

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Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).

The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.

Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)

AMD Turion 64 X2: AMD Turion 64 X2 is intended to be positioned against the Intel Core Duo was presented in 17. May 2006. The current consumption is not higher than with Centrino-Duo-notebooks (TL-45 with ATI Xpress and Mobility Radeon X300). This means, that approximative the same battery runtime and fan functions can be expected (with this chipset). However, the performance was 20% below the T2300 (1.66 GHz) due to the lower L2 Cache (Core Duo has 2048 Kbyte shared L2 Cache). Nevertheless, the performance is sufficient.

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.

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15.4: 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks.  15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
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 current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.

17.1: Nowadays, meanwhile the 17 inch display size is a more frequently offered standard format for desktop-replacements. 17 inch laptops are built only in 16:10 format.
The DTR-Laptops can't be carried easily, need much current, but on the other side texts can be read easily and high resolutions are no problem. DTR mainly are intended for stationary usage on desks, where the weight and the energy need are unimportant.

>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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3 kg:

This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.

4 kg:

This laptop is heavy below average, compared with the average of notebooks. Therefore especially desktop replacements fit in this class of weight.

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83.92%: This rating is to be considered as average, because the amount of notebooks with better ratings is about equal like the amount with worse ratings.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.