Anyone have a Fujitsu P2120?

[jimmyl930]

I thinking about getting this laptop:

P2120 Specs:
- 933MHz Crusoe
- 256mb RAM
- 30gb Hard Drive
- Mobility Radeon 8mb
- 10.6" wide-format SXGA TFT
- Modular DVD/CD-RW drive
- 56K v.90 modem and 10/100 Ethernet
- Two USB 2.0, S-Video, Mini-VGA (CRT adapter provided), RJ-11 (modem), and RJ-45 (Ethernet) ports, IEEE 1394
- 10.6"(w) x 7"(d) x 1.59"(h)
- Windows XP Home
- Weight: 3.4lbs. / 2.8 lbs. with weight-saver

$1229

How is the DVD playback? Could this play DivX well?

The main thing I'm worried about is the underpowered CPU. Can this do word processing/Internet/music well?

I may just wait for Transmeta's new Efficeon cpu to come out.

Any thoughts on this laptop?

Thanks.

 

[jimmyl930]

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[jimmyl930]

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[akiraxtc]

Yeah i used to use that laptop, and boy it is way underpowered. It's a good laptop if you are just browsing the internet or listening to music. However, it does not play divx well enough. I had to turn down Divx quality to Min settings and on some High-bitrate/higher resolution movies it tends to jerk. DVD playback is really good though since it looks like it utilizes the hardware acceleration from the ATI card, although the sound is a bit tinny.

I then switched to Compaq TC1000 tablet that uses 1Ghz Crusoe, 512MB of RAM w/ Geforce2go... and it does not help my Divx playback too. I guess it's just that these crusoe are so underpowered. Oh and by the way, both units ran fairly hot to uncomfortable levels even though Crusoe is supposed to be cool. Ironic.

If i were you, i'd look for Centrino-based subnotebook.

 

[gaidin123]

Get the Fujitsu P5010D. It's not that much more and is Centrino (or you can get it with 802.11G and then it's not Centrino ) and is sooo much faster than the old Crusoe based ones. I had a P2040 and, while it was a great machine, it was way underpowered. It's pretty much the same form factor as the 2000X series too.

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Gaidin