Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S7020

I'm going to buy a new notebook, a Dell D610 or a Fujitsu LifeBook S7020.. however I have some point on this last one:

How noisy is the S7020 ?
In this post it looks very noisy:
http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/talk2/ubb-files/Forum2/HTML/004788.html
The D610 will have a 7200 rpm HD, is that more noisy or....

How hot / warm is the S7020 after 2-4 hours ?
http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/talk2/ubb-files/Forum2/HTML/005128.html
http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/talk2/ubb-files/Forum2/HTML/005967.html
is the notebook unusable after 4 hours ?

And the screen.. (as noticed in http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=32307)
Who has bought the notebook in Europe (Fujitsu-Siemens) and has a 'bad' screen ? )

I preffer the S7020 because of the weight, just 1.9 KG with a CD/DVD drive, the 610D is 2.4 KG.

Are there any more comments on the S7020 ?

 

Easydisk

I bought a new S7020 notebook in Dublin Ireland a couple of days ago and can't say that I'm happy with it.

There is a small fan that is on constantly which becomes noticeable if you're in a quiet room. This is a minor problem though compared to the heat the s7020 generates.

The bottom left side of the notebook including the touchpad and keyboard becomes so hot as to make typing very uncomfortable. The temperature reading from my multimeter for the air vent on the bottom left underside is 56 degress celsius (132.8 fahrenheit). This after 2 hours of web browsing and email while the notebook was sitting on a wooden table running on battery power in a room where the central heating was off.

Running the notebook from the mains seems to make things worse as the heat climbed to 62 degrees celsius or 143.6 fahrenheit. I actually took a photo of this and made it my desktop wallpaper.

A louder fan came on once knocking the heat back to 58 celsius but the temperature rapidly climbed back after a couple of minutes.

I put the temperature probe under the the left alt key to the left of the space bar and measured a somewhat cooler but still insane 48 celsius.

It was at this point I turned the s7020 off to allow it and my fingers to cool down and switched to my old desktop - so much for mobile computing.

When the battery had fully recharged and cooled down I turned the s7020 on again and ran a game called dark mirror to see how it would affect the temperature.
The heat climbed to about 55 celsius before the main fan stated going on and off repeatedly bringing the heat down to about 45 celsius.The problem here though what with all the noise the main fan makes it ruined the sound from the game!

There is small band of white light coming up from the base of the lcd screen but its not really noticeable (to me at least) however the one dead pixel a blue dot near the centre of the screen is somewhat distracting.

All in all a very disappointing notebook/laptop.

I bought the s7020 because I was looking for a light laptop/notebook with a readable screen size of 1024x768 (i.e at least 14") and after reading the s7010 review here on notebookreview.com I thought that the "refreshed" line that is the s7020 would be even better - more fool me.

I'll keep you posted on how the warranty (or refund) works out.

 

Interesting to see how Fujitsu's policy on LCD and dead pixels works out. Many manufacturers don't include dead pixels in their return/service policy for some reason. (Although I think you can pay extra for this warranty through Fujitsu. A good $200 USD though).

 

Hi Cof!

Could your post your message also to the Fujitsu-Siemens forum? There is a big discussion also there about these issues. Your message would be really helpful also for the unlucky S7020 owners there.

Cheers

 

Apologies all for the delay in posting an update.

I was waiting until I got a final update from fujitsu-siemens before commenting further.

Well the quick summary is that I got a refund though I'm not sure if it was to do with the heat problems or the fact that I only had the thing for week after purchase before it was taken away for tests.

For the curious the s7020d was a YBBL model with a made in germany stamp with an 1.86GHZ cpu, 1GB ram, an 80gig hard drive (seagate ST98823AS) and an aethos b/g wifi card.

rutja76,
I'll have a look at posting my own experience onto the FS support forum but from the looks of things you already have everything in hand.

 

The heat problem of the S7020 is real problem. I have contacted the local supplier and now solution has been forthcoming.

I tried all sorts of remedies, disabling features I do not use, turning down transmission strength of the wlan from which location the heat seems to be generated most. The only thing that reduces the heat is a notebook cooler which is a must if the notebook is placed on a wooden top desk. Otherwise the amount of heat generated will make the wood warp.

It is really a pity that such a renowned company which has issued a number of very good notebooks has, as yet, not come out with a solution.

I am really disappointed.