Four Popular 8.9” Netbooks Compared
April 12, 2009
“There’s a popular saying that goes - “Some of the best things come in tiny packages”. How true it is! Just behold the Asus EEE PC T91 Netbook, the Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 Netbook, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook and the HP 2133 Mini Ultra Netbook, and you’ll be convinced. All 4 netbooks sport 8.9” screens and are capable of stealing your heart at the very first glimpse. Being extremely compact, small and light, they make great ultra-portable computing devices.
Here are tables illustrating the specifications of all 4 mobile PCs.
Processor:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| Intel Atom Z520 1.3GHz processor | Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor | Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor | VIA C7 M ULV 1.2GHz processor |
Operating System:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| Windows XP | Windows XP | Windows XP | Windows Vista |
Memory [RAM]:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| 1GB | 1GB | 1GB | 1GB |
Hard Drive/SSD:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| 32GB Solid State Hard Drive | 60GB/ 80GB/ 120GB Hard Drive options | 16GB Solid State Hard Drive | 120GB of Hard Drive |
Graphics:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| Intel GMA 500 | Intel GMA 950 | Intel GMA 950 | VIA Chrome 9 |
Screen:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| 8.9” screen which is ‘Touch Sensitive’. Pivots about its central hinge and can be folded over the keyboard to use like a tablet PC. Presents a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. | 8.9” screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. No touchscreen or pivoting features. | 8.9” screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. No touchscreen or pivoting features. | 8.9” screen with the highest resolution among the foursome - 1280 x 768 pixels. No touchscreen or pivoting features. |
Networking:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| WiFi, wired Ethernet, Bluetooth connectivity. 3G capability. GPS support. | WiFi, wired Ethernet, Bluetooth connectivity. Optionally 3G broadband modem can be accommodated. | WiFi, wired Ethernet, Bluetooth connectivity. | WiFi, wired Ethernet, Bluetooth connectivity. |
Connections:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| 2 USB ports, a Disk Expander for addition of MMC, SD or SDHC, a VGA output, a multi-card reader, a DVB-T TV tuner, headphone and microphone jacks. | 2 USB ports, a 4-in-1 card reader for SD/SDHC, MS, MMC and MSPRO cards, a 34mm ExpressCard slot, a VGA output, headphone and microphone jacks. | 3 USB ports, a VGA port, 3-in-1 media card reader, microphone and headphone jacks. | 2 USB ports, a 54mm ExpressCard slot, an SD Card slot, a VGA port, microphone and headphone jacks. |
Camera:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| 0.3 Megapixel webcam | 1.3 Megapixel webcam | 1.3 Megapixel webcam | A VGA webcam |
Dimensions, Weight:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| 216mm by 165mm by 28mm, 980g | 235mm by 185mm by 42mm, 1kg | 232mm by 172mm by 27mm, 1kg | 255mm by 165mm by 33mm, 1.27kg |
Battery Life:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| 5 hours | 4 hours | 3 hours | 2 hours |
Price:-
| Asus EEE PC T91 | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 | Dell Inspiron Mini 9 | HP 2133 Mini Ultra |
| Most expensive. About £800. | Least expensive. About £250. | Average. About £400. | Average. About £400. |
Asus EEE PC T91 8.9″ Netbook is a winner in the display, battery life and networking options. Its touchscreen, 3G and GPS capabilities are impressive. The battery life of 5 hours, is the highest among the 4 netbooks. Also being the lightest and smallest among the quad-netbooks, it seems to be the most ultra-portable.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini 8.9″ Netbook offers high speed performance with its fast processor. Powerful graphics are presented too. The hard drive capacity options are also very convenient. This netbook is an all-rounder, providing a decent battery life, flexible networking options, appreciable connections and reasonably high-resolution camera. Moreover, it is Energy Star 4.0 certified, indicating that it is an efficient portable PC.
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook, surely deserves credit, being the first netbook from Dell. It possesses a powerful and fast processor, like the Fujitsu Siemens netbook. The graphics of this mini laptop is also worthy of praise. It is the only one among the 4 netbooks considered, that houses 3 USB ports. A similar camera to that of Fujitsu Siemens netbook is integrated into this mobile computer. The battery life and hard drive space are a little disappointing. However, this device can undoubtedly meet your internet surfing, emailing and entertainment needs during your journeys.
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC is the earliest one among the others mentioned above, to be manufactured and released into market. It has a spacious hard drive, good connectivity and networking options. The screen of this netbook also offers the highest resolution among the foursome, thus promising clear and better detailed displays.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 Netbook
March 2, 2009
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 8.9” Netbook has some of the coolest features and technologies to make it your favourite mobile computing device. This netbook employs the Intel Atom N270 low-power processor with a clock speed of 1.6GHz, for handling operations and processing. The OS that this mobile PC is compatible with, is the Genuine Windows XP Home Edition. The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 card has been incorporated for taking care of graphics and videos. The RAM that this mini notebook houses has a capacity of 1GB. The hard drive can have a storage space of 60GB or 80GB or even 120GB.
The 8.9” screen of this laptop has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The display is a non-glare one too. This netbook supports wireless LAN, wired LAN and Bluetooth networking capabilities. The interfaces for connectivity that this portable computer offers include -
- VGA
- USB 2.0
- ExpressCard (34 mm)
- 4-in-1 card reader
- 2x audio outputs
An integrated webcam having a resolution of 1.3 Megapixels is also present in this device. There is a digital array microphone for facilitating video telephony as well. A long life battery which offers almost 4 hours of run-time is present too. Another unique feature that this laptop presents is the clip-on covers. You can easily slip your customised images into the transparent cover, giving your netbook a personal touch and style.
This notebook is Energy Star 4.0 certified as well. Hence, you can be assured that it is energy and power efficient. The easy to use and affordable Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520 Laptop is most suitable for emailing, viewing photos and videos, for educational purposes and for other internet activities like social networking, browsing and more.
Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook N7010
November 22, 2008
World is witnessing the era of techno revolution and its innovations have already entered the line of infinity. The competitive global PC market has entered the phase of an unusual hike. Having acquired 50% of the shares of Siemens’ PC business, Fujitsu has released a couple of new PCs, which include LifeBooks U820, N7010 and P1630. Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook N7010 Mobile PC is one such remarkable innovation of Fujitsu that comes fully loaded with n number of features to delight the user with its high end technology.
A unique feature of this device is that it comes with a keyboard, which is quite unusually integrated with a second touch sensory screen of four inches. This additional touch screen can be used to control DVD and CD drives, process applications and organise slide shows. This Touch zone can be used as an extension of the main display or engaged independently. That’s why Fujitsu proclaims that Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook N7010 is the world’s first laptop to have dual screens that can function independently and simultaneously.
This laptop is power processed by an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processor, which runs it, at an awesome 2.26GHz clockspeed. The motherboard of this lappie also includes a 4 GB RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 3470 graphics card, which supports it with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and a 2GB hyperMemory. The memory domain also includes an astounding 320GB hard drive that definitely is an advantage, in terms of massive storage.
Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook N7010 Blu-ray Laptop comes integrated with a Blu-ray Optical Drive that lets you to watch Blu-ray DVD movies. This notebook comes integrated with a Memory stick/SD card reader and E-Sata, HDMI ports. Networking and connectivity in this gadget, is enabled by its Ethernet, Bluetooth and Intel Wi-Fi link 5100 (802.11AGN) features. The Integarted 1.3Mp camera allows you to engage in video conferencing and to make VoIP calls. The 16” widescreen with a Crystal view display and gesture enabled trackpad are added features that would make you fall in love with this laptop.
Fujitsu Siemens Life Book T4220 Laptop
November 14, 2008
Fujitsu Siemens Life Book T4220 Laptop and is ready to set a revolution in the
world of computing. Main purpose of laptops is to make computing mobile without loosing out on any qualities and features. If that is the case then this unit successfully comes across these factors. Customized controls offer enhanced performance prompting unbeatable performance before your eyes.
Exterior of the product
Easy portability is made possible with a compact measurement of (W) 38.0 x (D) 295.0 x (H) 244.0 mm and weight of 2.3 kg. A screen size of 12.1 inch monitor matches with the dimensions and offers stress less view. This TFT XGA display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels promotes effortless viewing and boosts the clarity. The display can be rotated for flexibility in view.
Powerful interior
Effective processing of the work is made possible with Intel Core 2 Duo as the processor and a clock speed of 2.6 GHz. The CPU bus speed is calculated as 800 MHz. User friendly operations are facilitated with Windows Vista Business as the system operation. A whole new world of multimedia and graphics is featured with Intel GMA X3100 with 128 MB space with 32-bit colour depth. Memory and storage are crucial factors that need to be considered. It supports an internal memory of 4096 MB and installed RAM memory of 2048 MB. Memory card reader comes in handy while using the unit. Long last storage is offered with 160.0 GB hard drive with a speed of 5400 RPM. Optical drives facilitated in this unit are CD-RW/DVDRW/-RAM. Dual layering is offered for better flexibility in operations. Video card is the interface that supports features like Direct X9, Pixels hader 2.0, Dual View.
Number of connectivity is featured such as WLAN Standard of 802.11a/b/g/n, Network Card, USB Ports, FireWire, and HSDPA. Supported modem offers effective transmission of data and Internet. Customized controls included are Spill proof keyboard with 85 keys, 19mm key pitch, 2.7mm key stroke and a Touchpad with two mouse buttons and one scroll button.
High definition audio
The audio is given as much importance as the video. This Fujitsu Siemens laptop is equipped with Real Tek ALC262 as the sound device. Integrated is the sound card interface. Stereo speakers enhance the sound effects and offering an enhanced sound performance. In built microphones captures minute sound details.
Ports allows effective connections
It supports 1 x 15-pin D-Sub VGA port, 3 x USB, 1 x RJ-45, 1 x Infrared, 1 x RJ-11 modem, 1 x Audio In, 1 x Headphone Jack, 1 x Docking Connector, 1 x DC in.
The network interface facilitated is in built Marvell 88E8055 Ethernet 10/100/1000 MBps. Wireless system comes as optional benefit. Effective reception is favoured with 3 Antennas. Software that is made available is Adobe Acrobat Reader, Button Utility, Driver and Utility DVD, Easy Guide on-line user documentation, Nero Essentials, Norton Internet Security, Smart Case Logon+, Toshiba Bluetooth Stack.
For better management it offers Desk View 10: On/Offline remote client management, Detailed system inventory management and reports, BIOS Management, Power Management, System notifications, Security Remote Control, Helpdesk Integration, WoL (wake on LAN), Desk Up date: Driver Management. The security factor is given much importance and features Kensington Lock support, Trusted Platform module 1.2, Disable/Hide TPM option, Norton Internet Security, User and supervisor BIOS password, System Lock BIOS Smart Card security, Hard disk password, Integrated Fingerprint Sensor, System Lock BIOS Fingerprint Sensor, Integrated Smart Card slot.
The unit works within a temperature of 5 to 35 °C and Humidity of 20 to 85 %. When the unit is unplugged from the power, necessary power is supplied by Lithium-Ion (6 cell) battery with a capacity of 5200mAh and runs for 7.4 hours. The battery has a life for 6 hours the other power is supplied through 80W AC Power Adaptor with 19 VDC as power adaptor output and voltage required is 100 to 240 VAC / / 50 to 60 Hz.
Fujitsu Siemens Life Book T4220 Laptop PC offers high competition for rest of the products in the market.
| General Info | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Fujitsu Siemens |
| Model | Life Book T4220 |
| Weight | 2.3 Kg |
| Dimensions | (W) 38.0 x (D) 295.0 x (H) 244.0 mm |
| Processor Type | Intel Core 2 Duo |
| Hard disk capacity | 160.0 GB |
| RAM capacity | 2048 MB |
| Speed | 2.6 GHz |
| Screen resolution | 1024 x 768 pixels |
| Graphics card | Intel GMA X3100 |
| USB ports | Yes |
| Optical drives | CD-RW/DVDRW/-RAM |
| Battery capacity | 5200mAh |
| Wireless technology | WLAN Standard of 802.11a/b/g/n |
| Modem | Yes |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Business |
| Features | |
| Wi-Fi capability | Yes |
| CD/ DVD Read/write | Yes |
| Infra red port | Yes |
Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo M9410 Laptop
November 11, 2008
Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile M9410 Laptop PC adds style to business and is solemnly attributed for the next phase of mobile computing. This power packed machine is brimmed with advanced features to meet the needs of modern computing aristocrats. This machine features modular bay options, high speed connectivity, and flexible and customizable infrastructures that emphasise its mobility.
Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo M9410 Notebook comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Business along with Windows XP Pro Recovery Media that delight the enduser with their user friendliness. This laptop sports an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor along with a 3 MB L2 cache memory that form the heart and soul of this gadget that also boasts of its 2.2GHz clock speed. This laptop has a DDR3 type memory with a capacity of 2GB and 1066 MHz clockspeed, in addition to its 160 GB SATA hard drive of 7200 rpm. Intel GMA X Series chipset is integrated as the graphics chipset in the motherboard, which exhibits a shared graphical memory.
A rewritable DVD is integrated inside this gadget as an optical drive that aids you in writing, burning and rewriting DVDs and CDs. This device also flaunts a 5-in-1 card reader and 3 USB ports that aid you in reading the data from media Cards such as Secure Digital or MemoryStick and connecting to various peripherals respectively. Mobile Intel GMA 4500M HD Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0 is integrated in this device as the graphics controller, which aids you in entering the entertainment arena.
VGA, headphone, microphone, Ethernet, DC-in and Docking connector for Port Replicator are embedded as interfaces, and ExpressCard slots and SIM card slots are incorporated as expansion slots in this device. 10/100/1000 MBit/s Intel 82567LF network and Wireless LAN 802.11b/g of 54Mbps takes care of the connectivity of this laptop. The Intel WiFi Link 5300 wireless NIC of this notebook sets you glued with Wi-Fi hotspots.
Stereo speakers and Sound card of this notebook render you an enthralling audio output, while its 14.1″ TFT Widescreen WXGA Display of 1280 x 800 MP resolution is an awesome feature that whisks you away with its clarity. Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo M9410 Business Notebook features a 1.3MP integrated camera that lets you to engage in video conferencing. This notebook amounts to 2.3 kg in weight, 3.8 cm in height, 24.5 cm in depth and 33.5 cm in width, making its chassis easily portable.
