Fujitsu Siemens hasn't placed a huge emphasis on style for the Scenic range. Fortunately, this isn't a big issue even now, as style usually comes fairly low on the agenda for business buyers: features, support and service should be the deciding factors, along with price and performance.
The Scenic E600 has plenty of the latter, with number crunching carried out by the Hyper-Threading 2.8GHz Pentium 4, while 512MB of PC3200 memory is supplied for handling large files. Intel's Extreme Graphics 2 shares 64MB of that half-gigabyte and offers an analog D-SUB output for connecting a monitor. A 40GB Samsung hard disk should provide enough storage, but it's outshone by Dell's 120GB disk.
Gigabit Ethernet is a bonus if your office network will take advantage, and it's backwards compatible with 10/100 networks in the meantime, while legacy parallel and serial ports allow older peripherals to be hooked up. The basic keyboard and ball mouse use the PS/2 ports, leaving four USB 2 ports free at the back. Naturally there are two at the front, along with headphone and microphone sockets. There's also a Smart Card slot, but the reader itself isn't installed. You can specify one for an extra.
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Reliability
Average
Memory / capacity
Good
Range of Extra Features
Satisfactory
Instruction manual
Good
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