Fujitsu made some smart design decisions with its Fujitsu LifeBook B3010D. The ultralight features a power-saving Pentium M processor, big mouse buttons, and fast USB 2.0 ports. The B3010D also offers its trademark tap screen, long battery life, and secure password panel.
The Fujitsu LifeBook B3010D's small, 10.4-inch display responds to tapping with the included PDA-like stylus. The laptop's keyboard is diminutive but sports sophisticated black accents shared by the new Fujitsu LifeBook S series. The B3010D's touch pad and mouse buttons are also large and comfortable for an ultraportable.
Tiny even for an ultraportable, the Fujitsu LifeBook B3010D weighs just 3.3 pounds and boasts equally small dimensions: 1.4 by 10.6 by 7.4 inches. The minuscule form factor doesn't leave room for an internal swappable bay, making secondary storage drives, such as DVD/CD-RW drives, external-only options. The AC adapter pushes the notebook's overall weight up by 3/4 pound, bringing the travel weight to about 4 pounds.
Along its right edge, the Fujitsu LifeBook B3010D has two USB 2.0 ports; a 10/100 Ethernet port and an integrated 56Kbps modem; ports for VGA, headphone, and microphone; a CompactFlash slot; and one Type II PC Card slot with an embedded smart-card reader appears on the left. A handy wireless on/off switch is easy to access on the laptop's front edge.
The Fujitsu LifeBook B3010D features a 1GHz Pentium M chip, which resulted in much faster performance and outstanding battery life in CNET Labs tests. You can configure your LifeBook with a 4,200rpm hard drive that measures either 40GB or 60GB, plus you can get 802.11a/b/g wireless and anywhere from 256MB to 1GB of DDR SDRAM. While not chock-full of cutting-edge components, this spec selection falls in line with that of most ultraportables. And be sure to buy all the RAM you'll need right at the get-go, since the system includes just one memory slot, forcing you to toss out your existing RAM should you want to add another module later.
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