Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook T4215

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Reviews for the Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook T4215

80% Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS Tablet PC
Source: Hexus
The Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS has solid credentials. It's based on Intel's Napa platform (with Atheros WiFi card, though), ensuring a decent compromise between power, heat and battery life. We especially like the dual-swivel Tablet TFT, which is eminently readable in practically any environment.
More good is to be found with the range of connectivity options, covering Bluetooth, WiFi and Gigabit LAN through to an embedded UMTS card, offering truly go-anywhere connectivity.
But we'd want the laptop to be fitted with at least 1GiB of RAM and a more spacious hard drive. We'd also like an ExpressCard slot as standard. Furthermore, with portability near the top of the usual features-list for Tablet notebooks, a sleeker, lighter chassis would have been nice - something around 1.6kg with battery and optical drive.
gut, Preis/Leistung mäßig
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/03/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 60%

Fujitsu t4215 Review
Source: OurNotebookReviews
Recently got a t4215 from Fujitsu online store. This baby was shipped straight from Japan. I wanted a small portable laptop that resembled my old p5020D fujitsu. I wanted something small, fast, and with bay options. T415 is similar to the P series ….like the current p7120, but also features penabled tablet screen.
kurzer subjektiver Erfahrungsbericht eines Benutzers; online abrufbar

(von 10): Performance 10, Display 9, Verarbeitung 10, Akkulaufzeit 9
User Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 03/15/2007
Rating: performance: 100% display: 90% workmanship: 100%

90% Verwandlungskünstler
Source: Mobile News
Für Nutzer, die ihr mobiles Büro ständig in allen Lebenslagen bei sich tragen müssen und die sich ein maximales Connectivity-Potenzial wünschen, ist das Gerät eine lohnende Investition.
Test ist nur in der Zeitschrift gedruckt

"Empfehlung der Redaktion", Preis/Leistung gut
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 01/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 90%

73% Fujitsu LifeBook T4215
Source: CNet
Early convertible tablets often were saddled with out-of-date components. But newer models--such as the $2,429 Fujitsu LifeBook T4215--don't require you to sacrifice power for functionality, because they offer the latest technology, including Intel Core 2 Duo processors. While not as elegant as either the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 or the Gateway M285-E, the LifeBook T4215 is highly configurable and features a specially coated screen for outdoor use, making it a good fit for a range of uses and budgets. It also boasts a useful feature not found on other tablets: The rotating screen swivels both ways.
ausführlicher Test mit Geräteaufbau und Testwerten und Bildern; online abrufbar

(von 10): 7.3, Leistung 7, Ausstattung 7, Akkulaufzeit 7, Display gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/11/2006
Rating: Total score: 73% performance: 70% features: 70% display: 80%

Foreign Reviews

Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook T4215
Source: c't
online available, Very Short, Date: 02/05/2007
Rating: performance: 80% display: 90% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 80%

Fujitsu t4215 Review
Source: notebookforums.com
online available, Very Short, Date: 01/14/2007
Rating: price: 80% performance: 100% display: 90% workmanship: 100%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

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.

T7200:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.1": This is the most common display format for subnotebooks and an average size for subnotebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs less power, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.2 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.

81%: 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.

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