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After a delivery mishap yesterday (they dropped the middle number of my address) I finally got my P7010D. I went with 1.2ghz / 768MB / 7200 rpm / DVD-RAM and the scroll button (no fingerprint). Here are a few initial impressions from doodling around with it for 45 minutes.
- It's not as light as I had hoped. I need to weigh it on a scale to find how it weighs in. My lack of experience with other recent laptops contributes to this impression, no doubt.
- Similarly, the screen hasn't blown me away. It looks fine -- but that's it. Text is perfectly legible for me.
- It's also distressingly dusty. I can move the dust around with tissues, but will need to find a real cleaning solution soon. Especially for future fingerprint accidents.
- Size is good, though again, could be smaller! (Guess I'm hard to blow away.)
- The physical build seems good. It feels solid. The lid closes very nice and securely -- the lack of clasp should not be a problem. Still, I will always be a bit worried about breakage when carrying this thing in my backpack. Guess it's the fact that it has a HDD.
- Good speed and responsiveness. No complaints at all so far. I want to install Unreal Tournament '99, Wizardry VIII and some doujin shooters later for benchmarks.
- Touchpad is great so far. I'm surprised at how well the built-in vertical scrolling works. The number of options in the software is excellent.
- On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of the placement of the touchpad buttons and scroll rocker. Unfortunately, my rocker seems a little defective -- up is no problem, but down requires a significant amount of pressure to activate. Given how well the pad-based scrolling works, I'm not sure I want to waste the energy having Portable One replace this. What do you think? If you have the rocker, does down work as well as up?
- The keyboard is fine! I can type quite fast on it right out of the box. Only annoying thing so far is the period key.
- I was fully resigned to having to format the HDD and install my own, barebones version of XP. But surprisingly, this thing doesn't have a whole lot of junk installed. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to go with the factory install, which is a first for me.
- Speaking of the HDD, it only comes up as 55 GB. Is that normal for a 60 GB drive, or is there a hidden partition I need to nuke?
That's about it for now. I've got a ton of work to do, so I won't get to play with it in earnest for a few days. Hopefully my wireless networking setup will have arrived from Newegg by then.
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hey bent,
congrats on your purchase!
one of the things i really like about the fujitsus is that they don't come pre-loaded with a whole bunch of useless crap/software on them.[
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sorry to hear the unit isn't small enough for you tho []I've only seen a p7010 in person once, and i couldn't believe just how tiny it was.
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Thank you, michae42!
Brian, my expectations for the weight were probably too high. Or uh, low.
Anybody else have a sticky scroll rocker? I thought I'd simply use the working up-rocker for a middle-click, but it seems that is not an option in the pad software. You can make the L and R buttons middle-clicks, but not the rocker.
45 minutes with the P7010D
Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by bent, Mar 22, 2005.
