Great if you're looking for more than a netbook (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7320)

Member Name: bored_at_home

Product:	Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7320
Date:	11/01/09 (270 review reads)
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Advantages: Wifi-G, DVDRW, works out of the box, boots quickly from hibernate, some free software

Disadvantages: Slow startup, slow for anything more than youtube

This is a great laptop if youre just after something budget for a student or to do office work. It helps if you know a bit about PCs, with a bit of tweaking you can get more out of it. It takes a long time to start up but if you just hibernate instead then this resumes very quickly. The fujutsi wireless utility is pretty useless so I disabled it almost straight away and MS Works isn't anything special but nowadays open office will meet the needs of most consumers for free.

Even if you're a novice I still think you will get something from this laptop out of the box and i certainly wouldn't be unhappy if I received it as a present.

Since its a budget laptop you'll be quickly disappointed if you try to do much more than light browsing or office work. Youtube and facebook is about your limit, i have got some CCG (card games) working on it but even some DVDs cause the laptop to lag. The build quality is OK, I have dropped the laptop from a height of 2ft and it survived without any fresh scratches.

The battery life quotes 2 hours but after infrequent use it feels more like 45 minutes. This is the sort of laptop you dont want to be using away from a power socket. Also it has no PCMCIA but then again I can't think of anything it lacks.

Summary: A great budget office PC with the flexibility of a laptop

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