bing-bonger

I am thinking of getting the above laptop for £1400 all inc to use for web development. Below is the Basic spec, does anyone have any experiance with fujitsu-siemens laptops etc, are they any good, what are common problems etc? Any info would be great, thanks.

Spec:-
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Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor
with 3.06 GHz including Hyper-Threading
technology

Widescreen display up to 15.4” WXGA
Memory card slot for Multimedia Card,
Secure Digital Card or Memory Stick

External ATI MOBILITY
RADEON
9600
graphics controller offering 128MB Video
memory
Up to 1GB DDR SDRAM in 2 SO-DIMM
slots
Windows XP Home and Works Suite 20032
Optional Wireless LAN module 802.11b
80 GB IDE hard disk
CD 24x / CD-R 24x / CD-RW 10x / DVD 8x- DVD+R/+RW

Hanslow

bb, I have an older Amilo D 2.4G P4, 40 odd gig disk (I think) Radeon 9000 GPU.

Laptop has been fine. A bit on the weighty side, but that's no issue for me Never had a problem with it, would get another one if I was in the market.

4X4BOB

Got an Amilo D 8820 May 2003 from an internet retailer

Had the screen pack in Dec 2003


Getting it fixed under warranty was easy, telephoned Fujitsu-Siemens and gave laptop serial number etc (didnt have my reciept)
They then transferred me to the dept that does the repairs who wanted to send a courier out that same day to collect my laptop.
When I got it back they had simply fitted my HDD to a new laptop.
All working well again.

Would buy Futijsu-Siemens again.

Bob

mikelmr

Got one in November ... its pretty nice but I only paid £1K for it with 1Gb of RAM and the optional wireless networking as I work for a Siemens company. No probs so far with the hardware (has a few probs with the bundled Nero software locking it up though) The batteries don't last long though ! The performance is stunning and its not too bulky considering how big the screen is.

Mike

[Edited by mikelmr - 1/26/2004 6:31:16 PM]