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Recently announced Intel “Santa Rosa” platform-based Fujitsu LifeBook E8310 and E8410 desktop replacement (DTR) notebooks are now available for purchase.

Fujitsu’s E8310 and E8410 are offered with Intel Core 2 Duo T7100, T730, or T7500 processors featuring 1.8GHz, 2GHz, and 2.2GHz clock speeds respectively, and a 800MHz front side bus. Both laptops provide two DIMM slots for up to 4GB of system memory, and come with up to 120GB hard drive. These notebooks have built in optical drives and an optional Intel Turbo memory, which should work under Microsoft’s Windows Vista Business operating system.

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Fujitsu LifeBook A6030, the Company’s first Intel “Santa Rosa”-based laptop in mainstream A series, is now available for purchase.

The Intel Centrino Duo LifeBook A6030 15.4-inch widescreen laptop is built on GM965 chipset providing 800MHz front side bus and the integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100. It is offered with Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor at 2.0GHz or T7100 at 1.8GHz. The A6030’s display resolution is 1280×800. This notebook supports up to 4GB system memory, and has up to 120GB hard drive storage capacity, as well as a DVD burner. The PC maker also provides the controversial Intel Turbo Memory option in A6030 notebooks with Windows Vista Business OS preloaded.

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Fujitsu has updated its Tablet PC lineup with the new thin and light LifeBook T4220, based on Intel “Santa Rosa” mobile computing platform.

Fujitsu LifeBook T4220 features Intel Core 2 Duo T7100, T7300, T7500, or T7700 processor and Mobile Intel GM965 Express chipset. The GM965 has the integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, which manages the Tablet PC’s 12.1-inch XGA TFT display with 1024×768 resolution and an optional outdoor-use design. The LifeBook T4220 features digital pen input.

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Fujitsu today announced the addition of the U Series of ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) to its FMV-LIFEBOOK line of laptops. The introduced FMV-U8240 model for the Japanese market is the Company’s first UMPC device.

“Intended for business users, the U Series is the world’s smallest tablet-convertible UMPC, weighing only 580g and with a thickness of only 26.5mm,” Fujitsu says, adding that this mobile computer has a battery life of up to eight hours.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation has announced four LifeBook notebooks powered by next-generation Intel “Santa Rosa” platform and Centrino Pro processor technology: the LifeBook E8410 desktop replacement, the T4220 Tablet PC, the A6030 mainstream laptop, and the highly configurable E8310.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems today announced that its LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 ultra-portable pen-enabled notebooks will offer an option for a solid-state drive (SSD), the NAND flash-based replacement for traditional hard disk drives.

“The 2.2-pound LifeBook P1610 convertible touch screen notebook and 3.2-pound LifeBook B6210 touch screen notebook are now offered with two flash-based SSD configurations, 16 GB or 32 GB. SSDs offer lower power consumption, added ruggedness, high reliability, and improved performance,” Fujitsu says.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation today announced the Fujitsu LifeBook S2210, a thin and light 13.3-inch XGA display business laptop powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processor at 1.6GHz and ATI Radeon X1150 graphics with up to 256MB of shared graphics memory.

It supports up to 4GB of main memory and features up to 100GB SATA 5400rpm hard drive. Fujitsu LifeBook S2210 notebook has a modular bay that can be configured with a Dual-Layer Multi-Format DVD Writer, second hard drive, or a bay battery.

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Fujitsu Siemens is demonstrating the first notebook to support the new Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) standard called High Speed Upload Package Access (HSUPA) at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The forthcoming Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook features High Speed Download Package Access (HSDPA) with download speed of up to 7.2 MBit/s and the HSUPA upload speed of up to 1.4 MBit/s, the company announced.

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Fujitsu today announced the U.S. availability of LifeBook P7230, an ultra-portable laptop PC featuring a 10.6-inch widescreen display with LED backlight.

Fujitsu LifeBook P7230 weights under three pounds and is 1.17 inch thin. It is claimed to be the industry’s smallest and lightest subnotebook with a built-in modular bay that can accommodate a dual layer DVD burner or a second battery delivering up to 9.75 hours of operation between charges.

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The 15.4-inch widescreen Fujitsu LifeBook A6010 desktop replacement laptop, was reviewed recently by CNet, NotebookReview and StrikeMobile. The multimedia A6010 notebook, featuring Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Intel’s integrated graphics was said to be good desktop replacement in terms of performance, but also to have poor battery life.

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Fujitsu today announced Stylistic ST5111 and Stylistic ST5112 tablet PCs, featuring Intel’s Core Duo ULV (ultra-low voltage) U2500 processors. According to the press release, the Stylistic ST5111 Tablet PC features a 10.4-inch screen, the largest front-lit reflective display in the industry, optimized for outdoor viewing and direct sunlight conditions. The Stylistic ST5112 Tablet PC offers a 12.1-inch bright transmissive indoor/outdoor XGA display with greater than 160° wide viewing angles.

The Stylistic ST5111 and ST5112 support up to 4GB of main memory and up to 100GB SATA hard drive, while the graphics is powered by Intel’s integrated Media Accelerator 950.

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Fujitsu today announced the ultra-light 12.1-inch screen LifeBook T4215 tablet PC, featuring the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005.

The LifeBook T4215 offers three display options including a new indoor SXGA+ display, an indoor XGA display with wide viewing angles, and an indoor/outdoor XGA display with wide viewing angles. Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 is based on Intel 945GM chipset with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and built in wireless card with optional Bluetooth. It supports maximum of 4GB of main memory and has up to 120GB hard drive.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems today announced the LifeBook P1610 Tablet PC, a 2.2-pound computer with an 8.9-inch touch screen display. Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 is powered by the Intel Core Solo ultra-low voltage U1400 Processor and available with Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 or Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

According to the press release, the P1610’s 8.9-inch WXGA indoor/outdoor display has a backlight which illuminates the screen in indoor lighting. In outdoor lighting, a reflective surface within the LCD takes advantage of the sunlight to make the screen even brighter. “If the outside light is bright enough, users can turn off the backlight completely, dramatically extending the battery life,” Fujitsu published.

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The USA based Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, reported that on October 24, in Japan, a battery pack in a Fujitsu mobile computer (a Japanese market model equivalent to the Fujitsu LifeBook model P7120 notebook PC sold in the United States) overheated and damaged the computer. Japan’s Fujitsu Ltd. said on Friday its laptop with a Sony-made battery overheated and sparked earlier this week in Japan, causing minor burns to the hand of a user, the Reuters reports.

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A voluntary recall of 340,000 laptop batteries made by Sony was officially announced in the United States today. The latest-recalled lithium ion batteries containing Sony cells were used in Fujitsu’s, Gateway’s, Sony’s, and Toshiba’s notebook computers. These lithium ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published.

According to the CPSC’s press release, consumers should stop using the recalled batteries immediately unless otherwise instructed.

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