Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro V2030 Edition

Ok, well this is going to be a pretty harsh review because to be honest, i really don't like this product at all. speed This laptop is a very slow computer due to the 256mb RAM and 40gb hard drive that came built in. However, if you are willing to dish out some extra cash you can add more RAM and install a bigger hard drive although if you want to fork out the extra cash then you would be better just buying a different laptop instead with a bigger RAM and hard drive. Look and Feel This laptop actually looks ok really. For the age of the laptop, it was one of the better looking laptops for its ... more

I got the Amilo Pro 2030 from my insurance company due to my old one being damaged. Once I was told what model I would get as a replacement I was unsure and sceptical about it. I looked it up on the internet and read some information about it. I was impressed about the spec (from website): Main Features Product Description Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pro V2030 Edition - Celeron M 370 1.5 GHz - 15" TFT Dimensions (WxDxH) 33.2 cm x 27.6 cm x 3.9 cm Weight 2.6 kg Localisation English / United Kingdom System Type Notebook Built-in Devices Stereo speakers, wireless LAN aerial Processor Intel Celeron M ... more

Very good laptop for the money, decent specs, runs sluggish due to low ram, would recommend adding another 256mb/512mb DDR2 stick, not really up to playing games due to old technology graphics (no pixel shader or hardware T&L) dvd's play very clear, fantastic for web browsing and listening to music (speakers a bit tinny, very good through headphones). Have had good experiences with this laptop. No extra features, no bloatware pre-installed on the laptop which is generally fantastic and helps with the speed, only gripe with that is there is no dvd codec so you need to install a third party dvd ... more

This is the best laptop ever! Great performance and very good support for the open source platforms like Linux. The only pitty is that there was issues with ACPI and Linux(Slackware Linux had a problem controlling the RPM of the fan). It's got very fast memory(ddr2) and a nice big TFT screen. There wasent anything bad about this laptop. I would recommend it to anyone. The hdd is great too. If you want to can have a look at a tutorial I have written at http://bruceb0x.homelinux.org/~bruce/lap​top/ It is all about installing Slackware Linux on this laptop. Linux LiveCD's ran very nice ... more