Budget laptop - Fujitsu, pretty good except wireless speed and Vista upgrade
04 January 2007, 01:00 PM
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Budget laptop - Fujitsu, pretty good except wireless speed and Vista upgrade
Bought an Amilo Pi 1505 with 1GB RAM and 120GB hard drive (Core Duo, 15.4" widescreen, dual layer DVD writer etc) from Staples yesterday for £550 which isn't bad for the high street/retail park I think.
Very impressed with it - seems well built, excellent screen, quiet, good battery life. Maybe I'm impressed because my old laptop was a Thinkpad 380XD - 96 MB, PII 300MHz, 4 GB HDD
It simply wouldn't run the latest car programming software.
I did notice that the wireless network (54 Mbps 802.11g) with good/excellent signal is only running about 600 Kbps average on internet bandwidth, compared with double that if plugged into the router - supposedly 8Mbps connection). Disabling WEP didn't help either.
Also the Vista upgrade site couldn't recognise the COA number after I went through the first time and it insisted I was clicking cancel instead of confirm to process payment details. The technical helpline for the Vista upgrade is unobtainable.
Very impressed with it - seems well built, excellent screen, quiet, good battery life. Maybe I'm impressed because my old laptop was a Thinkpad 380XD - 96 MB, PII 300MHz, 4 GB HDD
It simply wouldn't run the latest car programming software.I did notice that the wireless network (54 Mbps 802.11g) with good/excellent signal is only running about 600 Kbps average on internet bandwidth, compared with double that if plugged into the router - supposedly 8Mbps connection). Disabling WEP didn't help either.
Also the Vista upgrade site couldn't recognise the COA number after I went through the first time and it insisted I was clicking cancel instead of confirm to process payment details. The technical helpline for the Vista upgrade is unobtainable.
04 January 2007, 03:23 PM
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ah should of brought this 1!
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512mb dedicated gphx card!
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Check the wireless is in the same mode at both ends... I found performance improved drastically when the laptop was forced to 'G' only .
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In the wireless connection properties , select the adaptor . In the properties of this there should be a 'mode' selection , usually defaulted to a/b/g. Set to G.
Likewise on the wireless config of your router...
YMMV , I'm using a built in Intel wireless chipset.
Steve
Likewise on the wireless config of your router...
YMMV , I'm using a built in Intel wireless chipset.
Steve
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