Sub Notebook recommendations - Fujitsu Lifebook

[dinda]

I'm in the market for a tiny, ultra-portable laptop; 3lbs or under. Does anyone have any experience with the Fujitsu Lifebook P7120? or another recommendation? I need to dual boot with XP b/c of a work project and so far the Lifebook and various Sony's seems the lightest. I already have a Powerbook so don't need any more Apple products at the moment. I'm mainly looking for the lightest travel machine to do general business apps and some basic multimedia/graphics work.

[argotnaut]

Better late than never ...

I have a Fujitsu P1510D and Edgy runs very nicely on it, although suspend/hibernate don't seem to work for me. No time to mess with it right now, so I just shut it down. :)

This is the smallest, lightest machine I could find. About 2.2 lbs, more with the extended battery. Touchscreen is nice and you can get it working relatively easily, but you have to do that manually (see the forum at http://www.leog.net/ ).

I like this machine a lot, and have gotten rid of my XP partition. People ask me about it all the time when I'm using it at school! They can't get over the tiny size. That reminds me -- the keyboard might be a little small for those with larger hands. Or normal hands, maybe ... my fingers are pretty small.

[RAV TUX]

I'm in the market for a tiny, ultra-portable laptop; 3lbs or under. Does anyone have any experience with the Fujitsu Lifebook P7120? or another recommendation? I need to dual boot with XP b/c of a work project and so far the Lifebook and various Sony's seems the lightest. I already have a Powerbook so don't need any more Apple products at the moment. I'm mainly looking for the lightest travel machine to do general business apps and some basic multimedia/graphics work.

Fujitsu Lifebooks are the best notebooks made....far superior to the bulky Powerbooks...

My wife owns the Fujitsu Lifebook T4215 which weighs 4.3 lbs....which has an Active (http://www.computers.us.fujitsu.com/images/help-me-choose/active_digitizer.htm) digitizer and is a convertible....(notebook/tablet) with: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7400 (2.16 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB), Hard drive: 120 GB; S-ATA 150; 5400 rpm, shock-mounted, memory:
2 DIMM 4 GB....Max Battery Life: 6 hours with main battery. 10 hours with main and bay battery

anyway as you can see light weight without any loss in power, in a convertible with an active digitized tablet/notebook
http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=T4215

If you want a 2.2 lb convertible I suggest the P1610:
http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=P1610

If you don't mind losing the tablet look into the Q2010 at 2.2lbs:
http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=Q2010

(http://www.computers.us.fujitsu.com/images/help-me-choose/active_digitizer.htm)

[mips]

You want small & light ???

Have a look at http://www.flybook.biz/en/

These will be more powerfull though and probably the same price but have a very good reputation:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=135A781CA29B4ECB9ADAD8E72CF6FD61
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=329576204C9E42289967E79E0E7C9A2D

[Rhubarb]

Yep, I've got an old P series Fujitsu lifebook with 800MHz Transmeta Crusoe processor.
Everything but the touchscreen works beautifully (though as argotnaut said I'm sure you could get this working).
Works with Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy, and Xubuntu Edgy too.

My unit doesn't have an optical drive, so must be installed via USB CD-ROM BAT-enabled drive (very hard to find), or just rip out the HDD and install it on another PC, then put it back into the Fujitsu and run a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to make sure your X will be running nicely with the different hardware.

The only bad experience I've had with the lifebook is that after a few years the touch panel intermittently worked. - Pulling the screen apart I found a loose connection which fixed up the touchscreen.
... Unfortunantly I'd been a little too violent and broke the LCD screen in the process.
But the good news is that the external monitor connection works beautifully (it has a cheap ATI 8MB vid card).

So yeah, the lifebooks are great little laptops, you shouldn't have too many / any problems getting a dual boot setup working nicely at all. :D

[rdelfin]

My LifeBook Q2010 (arguably called "The most beautiful laptop ever") is truly one of the most beautiful laptops aesthetically speaking: sober, elegant and, the lightest machine that accomplishes a 12-inch display with 2.2 libs weight (thats 1 kg even) in a 1-inch thick case: masterpiece design. I have dual boot with WinXP (even though the machine says "Vista-ready", this machine is clearly *NOT* meant for a full-featured RAM-hungry vista installation, so don't even bother).

I wouldn't recommend settling with the 512MB Ram option, going for the 1GB is mandatory nowadays.

Anyway, I have Feisty installed on mine (since it doesn't have an optical drive *Thank God*, I had to prepare a "Live USB" and run installation by booting from it). Installation went smooth, and it just runs FLAWLESSLY.

Everything got recognized immediately (display, touch pad, detection/connection to wireless was instant, etc.) The only things not supported are the fingerprint reader (which is not something you truly need in Linux), and the hibernate/suspend mode which is a general Ubuntu thing, not a Q2010 thing.

And If I may say so, my installation of WinXP (with Vista skin) and Ubuntu couldn't be any nicer, so if you're like me that weight is the most important factor without sacrificing much in the processor-department (a little though, it's a Core-solo), the Q2010 is an excellent choice to have WinXP and Ubuntu.

[TabletGuy]

Another vote here for the Fij. P series.

I have used Ubuntu on an P2010 and loved every minute of it. Small, light and fully featured.

The P7000 series should be just as good with more up-to-date hardware.

[orengolan]

Better late than never ...

I have a Fujitsu P1510D and Edgy runs very nicely on it, although suspend/hibernate don't seem to work for me. No time to mess with it right now, so I just shut it down. :)

This is the smallest, lightest machine I could find. About 2.2 lbs, more with the extended battery. Touchscreen is nice and you can get it working relatively easily, but you have to do that manually (see the forum at http://www.leog.net/ ).

I like this machine a lot, and have gotten rid of my XP partition. People ask me about it all the time when I'm using it at school! They can't get over the tiny size. That reminds me -- the keyboard might be a little small for those with larger hands. Or normal hands, maybe ... my fingers are pretty small.

I have the P1510 but i don't understand the instruction that makes the touchscreen work with Ubuntu 7.04 -
http://www.leog.net/fujp_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9436&whichpage=1

I want to try both options(samengstrom/conan).
Here is what happend when i try conan's option:
"Copy the file "fujitsu_drv.o" to the appropriate location ("/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input"). Insert the lines below to the file "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" or "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"."
I have /usr/X11R6/lib but inside i only have X11 folder. Where is my modules folder?

samengstrom's option is too complicated, i don't know perl...

any ideas?

[orengolan]

I just bought the Q2010 and I have some issues with the wireless connection.
anyone had the same problem with this device?

[AmpersUK]

I presume this is an update of the P1510 which I own. I love it and the battery extension gives me up to eight hours. The 1510 has wifi issues which I am not experienced enough to solve although others have, so I suggest you go to: http://www.pc-ap.fujitsu.com/support/drv_lifebook.html and find the page for the Lifebook you want to buy and check the drivers out against all possibilities of "Linuxing" the machine.

Ampers