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Review: Battery Life Gets A Boost
12:00 AM EDT Mon. May. 19, 2008
From the May 19, 2008 issue of CRN Tech
People in vertical markets who demand a truly mobile, full-function PC can often find themselves hitting the wall.
Long battery life, combined with full functionality, has continued to elude tablet PC manufacturers. Fujitsu Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., though, has pushed improvements in this area much further than we've seen in earlier generations of tablet PCs.
In the CRN Test Center Lab, a LifeBook T2010 Tablet PC performed in a series of tests designed to get a look at how it might operate in different scenarios. The 3.5-pound evaluation unit ran Microsoft Windows Vista Business, with an Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 processor at 1.20GHz and 2 GB of memory. Using Primate Labs' Geekbench software, the T2010 benchmarked a score of 1,337. It was absolutely fine for word processing, moderate Web browsing or entering numbers onto a spreadsheet.
To test the life of the 6-cell Lithium Ion battery, all the power-saving features were shut off and a video was played continuously from the hard drive until the system shut down. Here, the T2010 ran for a full four hours and 10 minutes before it went black. In a "real world" test, with power-saving features on, battery life stretched to more than eight hours.
The T2010 is built with a security lock slot and fingerprint reader in addition to the smart card slot. It currently supports WEP, TKIP, CKIP and AES encryptions. For wireless connectivity, the device is built with an Intel Corp. Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN card, supporting 802.11a/b/g/n standards. Fujitsu has a longstanding channel program that provides authorized resellers with sales support, marketing support and financial incentives in both tablet and notebook PC sales.
