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I'm in the market for an ultra-portable notebook right now and I remember you giving praise to this particular little unit.
I am looking for a notebook with most of the features the 7010 offers, but I have a question for you:
What do you think of the fan noise on yours? During my research I have found fan noise to be the only major complaint of that model. They say it runs silent on the outlet, but once you go to battery it gets a bit noisy. Your thoughts?
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I have my MP3 player plugged into my head and I'm listening to music when I use it on battery. So the fan noise never bothered me. Depends on how sensitive you are to sounds like that. Droning noises don't interrupt me. I once had a hard disk that set up the most awful high-pitched whine - I finally had to disconnect it and get rid of it. But nothing like that from the Fujitsu.
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Cool. I'm still eyeballing the Fujitsu line, but due to my decision not to build a new power desktop from scratch, I'm now looking at portable units with a little more brawn. Asus, a company that manufactures some of the best motherboards in the industry has a notebook model I'm interested in (the Z71v).
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Depends what you mean by brawn. I've got 80 gigs on my Fujitsu, and the screen gives me plenty of real estate. It's quick enough for what I use a laptop for, and it has all the ports I need. But if you're a serious cutting-edge gamer or you plan to use it for CAD, it's probably not brawny enough. Otherwise, it's hard to think what it wouldn't handle well.
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I am a waning gamer. I used to play quite a bit, but my interest in writing again has cut into it a lot. However, even though I’m taking my writing more seriously now, there always seems to be a game or two that grabs me.
So I want a portable with a decent GPU, at least a gig of RAM, and runs on a Pentium M proc. I probably wont use it for gaming half as much as I will for writing and the net, but I have to have a machine that’ll give me the option, or I’ll regret my purchase.
I love Fujitsu’s screens, they are some of the best I have ever seen. Fj does make a line of gaming capable portables, but it’s the Asus line that’s really drawing me in. The Z70V “Refresh” that’s due out next month carries a x700 GPU. If you don’t know your graphics cards, this is a Radeon 128mb card which runs in x16 PCI-e that can play all the modern games and has some room for future growth.
The trade off is that it’s not an ultra-portable, and it has nowhere near the battery life yours probably does.
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