Just 1 kilo: Fujitsu Siemens Q2010

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Day to Day use

Working with the 1 kilo Fujitsu Siemens is a pleasant experience, also due to the full-sized keyboard. Most of these kind of notebooks come with small keyboards which hamper their functionality, but in the case of the Lifebook Q2010 this is not a problem. Performance wise the Intel Core Solo u1400 (1,2 Ghz/533 MHz) doesn't disappoint, though it doesn't come close to the performance of any dual core CPU's which have almost become the standard these days. The graphics are powered by the Intel 945GMS chipset, fine for office applications but look elsewhere if your planning to use graphic heavy applications.

To keep the scales at 1 kilo Fujitsu Siemens opted to provide the Lifebook Q2010 with a 1150 mAh battery, the downside of this is that, even when running a "mild" benchmark like MobileMark 2002 SE Reader, the average battery life is only 50 minutes. Running the heavier productivity test was simply impossible. Placing the heavier 5200 mAh battery in the notebook increased the battery life to 3,5 hours whilst running our Productivity test and 4 hours when running our MobileMark test, downside of the larger battery is that the weight of the laptop was increased to 1,2 kilo.

Conclusion

In general we were impressed by the Lifebook Q2010. The 13,3 inch screen and full size keyboard in combination with the low weight make it an ideal travel companion. The true functionality of the machine is attained with the heavier battery but at 1,2 kilo we cant complain about it being heavy. The Core Solo offers reasonable performance and is more than adequate for office applications.
Fujitsu Siemens have managed to deliver a well rounded package with the Lifebook Q2010 , but at the retail price that these status symbol are selling we would expect no less.

A little technological marvel that, though it's not meant for the mass-market, definitely deserves a Gold Award.