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A review by pedanticSam on Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pi 1536 - Core Duo T2300 1.66 GHz - 15.4" TFT December 29th, 2006
Author's product rating:
Speed
Fast
Look & Feel
Good
Comfort & Portability
Satisfactory
Robustness & Durability
Poor
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
value, performance, features, DVD + / - R writer
Disadvantages:
battery life, weight, build quality
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Overall, I would recommend the Pi 1536 to anyone looking for a new laptop which doesn't cost the earth. It will happily devour multimedia/image-editing software, and even plays recent games (Half-Life 2: Episode 1 is very smooth even in native resolution of 1280x800). My model has an ATI X1400 graphics card which does the job nicely for the price.
As with most laptops these days, the screen is excellent. The wide aspect ratio is a must in my opinion, and I have started watching films on this rather than my desktop.
I found the keyboard was very good, even though I am used to a full-size keyboard. There is also a decent DVD-writer, and a multimedia card reader built-in. As far as I'm concerned, it does everything I want to do better than my overclocked P4 3.2GHz desktop PC.
The 1GB of RAM is more than adequate, and the 80GB hard drive I got is probably enough for most people. I bought an Icy Box, though, so I could use my old internal hard drives for extra storage of my extensive media collection.
There are some significant drawbacks, however. In particular, I'd recommend it more as an affordable desktop replacement, than a computer-on-the-move.
At 3.1kgs, this notebook is certainly not light. I found it was a bit too heavy to carry every day (I have to walk about a mile to Uni). If you only travel with it occasionally then it's fine, though. The other bane of travellers is battery life, and it's not good news I'm afraid. If you're watching a DVD, or playing a game you'll probably get about 1.5 hours before you run out of juice. If you're only writing e-mails or reports, then with the brightness turned down a bit you might be good for 2 hrs 15 mins or so.
Another often-ignored problem with price-conscious laptops is the build quality. Although everything is properly put together and "sturdy enough", I wouldn't trust it being dropped or even handled a bit too aggressively. The question is really whether this is important enough that you pay an extra £200 for an Apple, IBM (Lenovo), or Sony - as a Scotsman I certainly can't justify that! My main source of worry is that the plastic case flexes just a bit more than feels right, and the screen is easily twisted if you don't treat it with respect. Maybe I'm just being too picky.
One final note: if you are a musician who hopes to record music on the move, or perhaps even open a few MIDI files for reference, do not get this laptop! The on-board sound chip is great for multimedia, and handles music playback quite nicely, but unfortunately I found it wouldn't even play a MIDI file. Recording audio (using Sonar 3) resulted in too many drop-outs, and I found it to be generally poor.
The Pi 1536 is ideal if you want to do everything you would do on a desktop, Intel's core duo makes a big difference when running several apps at once. I'd give it an 8.5/10 score overall.
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Advantages: Ram, HDD, Sleek design, Lightweight, Top class! Disadvantages: Don't buy from curry's!
...absolutly useless, one of the fujitsu disks was missing and I had to contact them so they could send it out to me, took best part of a month...put me off a little. I terms of a price, anything under 775 and you have grabbed yourself a bargain. The instructions and literiture that i got with the laptop was simple and easy to follow, there was a great section on tutorials that I was looking at not so long ago, great for the novice user, to get them ...
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Graphics Processor / Vendor: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 HyperMemory up to 512MB - PCI Express
Video Memory: DDR2 SDRAM - 128 MB
Audio
Audio Output: Sound card
Features: 7.1 SPDIF
Audio Input: Microphone
Input device(s)
Type: Keyboard, touchpad
Telecom
Modem: Fax / Modem
Max Transfer Rate: 56 Kbps
Protocols & Specifications: ITU V.92
Manufacturer's product description
The AMILO Pi 1536 is the benchmark for reliable, stylish and high-performance mobility. It's about knowing you can perform at your peak, no matter where you are. Watching your latest DVD, save your latest holiday pictures on a DVD or a CD, create your own homepage or write and send your emails, the AMILO Pi 1536 makes your live easier.
Networking
Networking: Network adapter
Wireless LAN Supported: Yes
Wireless NIC: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Data Link Protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g
Never let me down. works great in every situation. real laptop to take it with you. light, I just added 1 gb more of 667mhz RAM and this thing is the best money can get. This version is with windows XP though, and I am glad for that :) Intel GMA 950... more
I had wanted a laptop for a long time but had never been able to justify the cost when I already had a desktop computer. With the prospect of planning my wedding and spending hours on the internet searching for suppliers etc, I wanted to be able to do... more
I have owned this product for over a month now, and iv found it easy to use, lighter than most other laptops and even though its not as expensive as some of the other laptops on the maret it works just aswell if not better! Its been a really great buy.... more
I've recently been able to test this laptop as my stepdad has received one through his work. It's the first time I have seen an HP/Compaq laptop, but I've used many other brands so I'll be mainly using them as a comparison.
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The specs of the laptop are as follows
Operating system - Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic 32
Processor - Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2050 1.60 GHz 2 MB L2
cache 533 MHz front side bus.
Memory- 512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 533-MHz with... more
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