The Fujitsu LifeBook A6010 gets positive first impressions from Abaxter (NBR Reviewer) at NotebookReview. The reviewed notebook is built around Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 667MHz) and with 2GB RAM (1GB x 2), 15.4″ widescreen CrystalView widescreen display, 120GB P-ATA 4200RPM hard drive, Dual Layer Multi-Format DVD Writer, Integrated Fingerprint reader, Spill Resistant keyboard and Remote control for XP Media Center.

Abaxter writes: “The Fujitsu A6010 is nicely designed and offers just the right feature set for a home media computer, here’s a first thoughts look at this laptop.

I’ve had the LifeBook A6010 for just a couple of days now, but that’s been enough time to become quite impressed with this $1,350 notebook. The look is just great, it’s sleek but not overly flashy with a mostly silver casing and black accents and black keyboard. The LED lights at the front are pleasing and look good. The case is made of plastic, but it is thick and protective with no hint of flex anywhere. I was worried that Fujitsu would compromise on build quality like I feel they did with their budget LifeBook C1410 offering, but that’s not the case at all. There’s no doubt the A6010 is sturdy.

The keyboard is a real doozy, it has no flex whatsoever and each key feels individual. It’s best described as a blend between a Dell keyboard and ThinkPad keyboard — it’s fairly light to the touch in terms of keystroke but each key feels set apart and has great travel. The instant access keys at the top for launching a browser, web search page or controlling volume are nice touches.

And for a consumer notebook the the LifeBook A6010 does a great job in terms of data protection and security. It comes with a built-in hard drive shock protection system that so far is working great and also a biometric fingerprint reader for hassle free login security (no excuses for disabling password protection on your Windows login).

The Intel Core 2 Duo offered with this notebook is the “low end” 1.66GHz version, but still offers very good performance, I got a Super Pi calculation time to 2 million digits of 1m 22s. That’s slower than the under 1 minute results that 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo processors get, but still demonstrates the processor can chug through calculations fast. There’s no dedicated graphics card included with the A6010 as it’s not meant for gaming, simply productivity and multimedia. The A6010 is “Windows Vista Capable”. The 2GB of RAM offered standard with this configuration is great and ensures you’ll be ready to upgrade to Windows Vista when the time comes.

And the screen? Oh wow, it’s such a treat to have a Fujitsu CrystalView screen to look at once again. Although for me it’s somewhat bitter sweet because once again my poor ThinkPad T43 notebook screen looks like a dim star in a far off galaxy next to the sun like brightness and clarity offered by the A6010 CrystalView widescreen display.” - NotebookReview.com

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This entry was posted on October 27, 2006 and is filed under Fujitsu.