Fujitsu LifeBook N7010
One screen wasnt enough for Fujitsu. The company just had to tack on a second, smaller screen and create a sort of odd mashup with its LifeBook N7010 notebook. The main screen is a fairly crisp 16-inch, 16:9 aspect-ratio screen (new for the LifeBook maker). The other panel is a 4-inch touch screen that serves as a shortcut-heavy zone. Interesting, yes--but does that tiny secondary screen make this laptop worth the $1500 asking price (as of 3/10/2009)?
Since the second screen is the biggest deal with this portable, lets look first at what it does--and what it doesnt. Unlike with the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds, the secondary screen isnt an extra place to drop your desktop images. It is a functional work area. For the most part, it links to various programs hiding on your computer. Whether you want to take a screen shot or launch a browser, the buttons are all right there. Want it to launch a game? Done (but nothing too demanding--Ill get to that later). You can also do goofy stuff with this secondary panel such as making it serve as a photo slide-show screen. Useful? Maybe, maybe not, but it opens up some possibilities. You could also use it as an external monitor, moving the mouse onto the second screen or dragging a window onto the 960-by-544-pixel area. I even starting watching video clips on it--a nice touch. An even nicer touch: I could use it as a mini-drawing tablet. Goofing around, I dragged the MS Paint window into the second screen. It resized and worked great for drawing my stick-figure masterpiece.
The main screen, that 16-inch, 1355-by-768-pixel panel, looks surprisingly colorful and bright. And it has just the right amount of glossy coating. It does bounce back a good deal of light when outdoors. Adjust the screen to compensate, and its not a major pain. What is a pain is the off-size resolution that prohibits you from getting a full 1080p picture on-screen. For that, youll need to send video from the HDMI port to a monitor.
Since the second screen is the biggest deal with this portable, lets look first at what it does--and what it doesnt. Unlike with the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds, the secondary screen isnt an extra place to drop your desktop images. It is a functional work area. For the most part, it links to various programs hiding on your computer. Whether you want to take a screen shot or launch a browser, the buttons are all right there. Want it to launch a game? Done (but nothing too demanding--Ill get to that later). You can also do goofy stuff with this secondary panel such as making it serve as a photo slide-show screen. Useful? Maybe, maybe not, but it opens up some possibilities. You could also use it as an external monitor, moving the mouse onto the second screen or dragging a window onto the 960-by-544-pixel area. I even starting watching video clips on it--a nice touch. An even nicer touch: I could use it as a mini-drawing tablet. Goofing around, I dragged the MS Paint window into the second screen. It resized and worked great for drawing my stick-figure masterpiece.
The main screen, that 16-inch, 1355-by-768-pixel panel, looks surprisingly colorful and bright. And it has just the right amount of glossy coating. It does bounce back a good deal of light when outdoors. Adjust the screen to compensate, and its not a major pain. What is a pain is the off-size resolution that prohibits you from getting a full 1080p picture on-screen. For that, youll need to send video from the HDMI port to a monitor.
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