Fujitsu N5010. Subpar reviews vs. raves here

Hi folks. I've been doing a bit of investigation the last couple of weeks. I have 2.2k$ in grant money to burn in the next month on a notebook.

Since I'm would use this strictly for work related purposes (no travelling), I thought that the most important factor in purchasing the notebook for myself would be the clarity of the screen. It would be frustrating to look at a screen with subpar resolution for hours....

I saw the sony vaio xbrite screens and was blown away...and I was settled on getting one of those notebooks until I heard about the superior quality of fujitsu notebooks here on this forum. Unfortunately, I've read nothing but subpar reviews (pcmag,etc .) around the web about these notebooks.......

Maybe there is something that I'm missing here...and I've dug through the forum a few times now for any negatives on fujitsu notebooks and I haven't found any so far. All I can find are positives (excellent support, excellent screen, 7200rpm HDD option from laptopinc, made in japan).

Just out of speculation....if this notebook is that gr8 why would you guess that it's getting such subpar reviews on so many sites? It's puzzling....I want to know what i may have overlooked.

 

I don't know about subpar...I've only seen 3/5 or better. I think the biggest issue is the weight, which is a problem for some. As for the screen, PC Mag thought it was better than the XBRITE.

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I just read a review in Laptop Magazine for this notebook and they were absolutely thrilled with it. They even gave it an award for best desktop replacement. The screen was highly rated and the form and design factor was rated as best in the class. Speed was top notch with the Hyper Threading Pentium 4 chip and graphics peformance excellent. I recommend picking up a copy of the most recent Laptop Magazine (great read each month btw) and you might be convinced this is the notebook for you.

 

Thx 2u2 for responding. I decided and bought 2 fujitsu n5010. One is for myself adn the other is for my father from laptopinc.

One is a souped up one (3.0gig 768 ram+60gig 7200RPM hitachi) and the other one is a (2.8gig 256mb ram+60gig 5400rpm)

I'll be posting a review on both of these with benchmarks (any recommended programs?)

I'm sure ppl will be interested in the difference between the 7200rpm and 5400rpm hdds.....

 

One thing with this unit. The screen is very nice, BUT it is very slow. 50ms is WAY TOO SLOW.

 

I don't know what you're basing that on. There have been no reported problems with screen lag that I'm aware of. Perhaps you could post links?

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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by jesoonster

 

I don't think it's heads and shoulders over the GRT, but almost everything I read gives it the non over the GRT. Sadly I've not seen them side-by-side so I can't give a personal opinion. I can say that Fujitsu's service is excellent and better than what I've experienced with Sony.

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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Brian

 

On that note, is there anywhere that sells the N5000 series with a 0% restocking fee, so I'd only have to pay shipping if I returned it. If its not as good as the GRT, I don't want to keep it. I've read reviews etc. but I have serious doubts that it will be "better" than my GRT and if they are equal in screen quality I'd rather have the UXGA resolution, full size keyboard, dual format burner (both + and -) and TIVO functionality of the GRT series--features absent in the Fujitsu. Any recommendations?

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Yup, www.laptopsinc.com is your place. Ask for Ivan and told him I sent you.

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Took the plunge and got the fujitsu N5010. All I can say is that the notebook screen is fantastic. At first glance I regretted not getting the sony...but after using the fujitsu I noticed (like others have said) that there weren't any reflective properties like that of the sony xbrite screens. Since i'm going to be looking at the screen for significantly long periods of time on research....I would definitely prefer this screen....since I noticed that Sony screens (while they look gr8 at first glance) make it very uncomfortable to the eye after looking at the screen for long periods of time (stayed at bestbuy and looked at the sony xbrite sxga+ for like 20 min lol).

I'll be posting the results of the benchmarks soon when i get the time.

 

Excellent, you echo my thoughts exactly on the defficiency of the XBRITE screen. You may be the only other person I know that doesn't *love* the XBRITE. I hope you'll stick around and become our resident N series expert.

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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by jesoonster

 

Yes, it would be false to claim that any of the current LCD's offer no glare.

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Oops. you stand corrected mod. I wrote that it doesn't have reflective properties like the sony......

I actually meant that it wasn't as reflective as the sony not that it DIDN"T have reflective properties. So I'm wrong and I'm the moron sue me =P

 

I don't mean to be mean but don't tell me that it has no glare. It makes it difficult for me to believe you when you go on and on about how much "better" the Crystalview is than the XBrite. Proof is in the pudding or in this case a picture

Oh no no. I never said the Fujitsu has NO glare (of did I lol. I wrote that post at some late AM). You're right that would be BS lol. It just has "less" glare than the sony xbrite. To make a somewhat rough comparison...(a not so good one b/c I don't want to spend more time thinking on another analogY)...it's like glare on a non waxed car, vs a waxed car....the nonwaxed car has "some" glare but nowhere near as the waxed one. I just find that the sony xbrite seems to have a greater glare than the fujitsu.

Hmmm. as to another part of your statement (if it was addressed to me)...I never said the FUjitsu was indeed better...if I did (again I wrote the post really late) i meant that "I thought" it was better for "me". I could easily understand why someone would prefer the xbrite over the fujitsu screen and the argument can also go the other way

but to say that the Crystalview doesn't have "any of the reflective properties like that of the sony. . ." is just 100% absolutely false information.

You're absolutely correct. It has reflective properties...I just don't think it has as much as the xbrites that's all =) I hope that it clears things up.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by jesoonster

 

Slat just out of curiosity where is your notebook made in? I saw the GRT sold in bestbuy and it was made in china. Are any GRTs made in Japan?