Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Pi 2662

* 10p/minute for 'free' technical support * contradictory advice given, depending upon whom one talks to * machine instantly becomes unusable if turned off in first 20 minutes of operation * no warning on box this will happen * no system disks provided * exorbitant 36.50 Euros to buy recovery disks with 4 day wait for delivery * recovery disks can go only to USA, according to the website * computer won't run Windows XP, the only known reliable version of Windows * Fujitsu-Siemens said computer will run XP when clearly it won't, because they make the hardware to run only on Vista * available website drivers and firmware updates ...

I have owned an older vesion of the Scaleo P for about 2 years, the build quality of these machines is amazing and fujitsu-siemens normally load up these PC's with very good hardware that is pretty much future proof for about a year, the nice to have extras like a HDD case fan and card reader etc. the machine is very reliable and bar power cuts it works perfectly, a good idea is to load up a 64-bit Operating System (i.e. XP 64 or Vista 64) if you have an AMD or Intel Proceesor that is compatible with 64-bit processing as this makes the computer run to full capacity and flawlessly, the AMD Cool'n'Quiet function that is shipped with AMD ...