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Fujitsu LifeBook AH550 Review


The LifeBook AH550 is a portable 15.6-inch desktop replacement Fujitsu. With a starting price of $ 749, the AH550 features an Intel Core i3-330M, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 500GB hard drive. The main configurations, dedicated graphics NVIDIA are also available, with an increase of $ 200. In this review, the LifeBook AH550 see how it compares to other desktop replacement 15 inch and if it is worthy of your next purchase.


Construction and Design

The Fujitsu LifeBook AH550 is finished in elegant black metal with chrome accents inside and out. The display cover has the front and center the Fujitsu logo and the name and logo on the small side. Inside, the palm rest, keyboard, cut and frame the screen sharing of the black metal finish with the same chrome around the touch screen and along the front edge. If all the stickers removed from the body of the notebook LifeBook AH550 think it would be one of the Toshiba satellite a105 battery smoother looking around.


Build quality is average compared to the current generation of consumer notebooks and other small business. Dashboards, including support for Palm and the cover screen has some flexibility, but nothing that stands out. Support for the palms, the section on the optical drive bay has some damage. Take your laptop around this point is bent upward from the bottom and inside the cavity of the optical drive open. The quality is very good with the paint finish taking tenderly to scratches and scuffs. Everything else is less plastic palm trees that blends well with the glossy black finish and can also hide any kind of abuse every day. Like most Fujitsu notebooks, this model also features removable air filter at the bottom.


Fujitsu provides users with easy access to the hard drive and system memory through two panels on the underside of the laptop. One area that may be a future problem is the way the battery is mounted with plastic clips instead of spring locks. If a clip has never been broken or lost battery and not get stuck in the system.



Keyboard and Touchpad

The LifeBook AH550 has a keyboard is very convenient enterprise-class easy to type on, and provides excellent tactile feedback. Support for the keyboard is excellent, even in the individual standings with stronger key mechanisms of the operation. Bamboleo was the key today, larger keys have been a smooth ride, despite the offset presses, which can sometimes cause crashes. The keyboard is spill pads at once robust and full-size. The measure was easy to get used to the difference in some models, not to reduce the number keys on the main section of the keyboard.


For a multimedia notebook, we were surprised to see the media dedicated keys or reused without any type of function keys. The only portable auxiliary button on the media key was next to the button.


The Apple macbook pro 15 inch battery included in the LifeBook AH550 is a medium sized model with some features multitouch ALPS. The sensitivity is excellent, and only the slightest delay in our extensive testing. During the movement along, click and drag the touchpad sometimes dragged clear of the point and block and move it to another icon. Changing the settings seemed to improve, but we never had this problem with Synaptics touchpad. Supported actions include moving axis pan, zoom and rotation appears. With the standard and scroll down, it also supports chiral scrolling action (circular) as an option.



Screen and speakers

The AH550 offers a choice of screen resolution for changes in integrated graphics and dedicated. Both systems include a backlit LED panel with a resolution of 1366x768 XGA. These days I wonder if the mid-range models do not offer a high definition display capable of 1600x900 resolution, especially if they are oriented media. The same rate group average with good color and contrast. The shiny surface of the screen helped make colors appear more saturated colors and better black levels. The screen was nice to see the conditions Smart Office, but with an ambient light level measured at 190 nits max, was not bright enough to see outside.


Speakers at the AH550 is located above the keyboard and his below average compared to other multimedia-oriented phones. Low and very small companies with inadequate levels of maximum volume, even for smaller mid-range environments. To listen to music or talk to someone using VoIP software that works very well yet, leaving much to be desired. Headphones or digital audio via HDMI, it would be better to listen to music.



Ports and Features

The Fujitsu LifeBook AH550 offers a good selection of ports including four USB 2.0 ports, VGA, HDMI, LAN and analog audio jacks. Expansion slots include a card reader compatible with Dell latitude d531 battery and ExpressCard/54 slot. The design of the back was filled with three USB 2.0 slots next to each other. This configuration can block other ports if you have a wide range of plug-in devices


Performance and benchmarks

System performance with the Intel Core i3-330M and the Intel GMA integrated graphics HD was excellent. The handset had no trouble answering the decoding of 720p or 1080p HD played locally, or play Flash video sites like YouTube HD. If you do not plan on gaming laptop, the current generation of integrated graphics is capable of handling anything you can throw at it. Users who attempt to break a "little more on your car, you can buy performance-oriented AH550 $ 949 which includes a fast Intel Core i5-430M 310M and GeForce graphics with 512 MB dedicated video memory. Another advantage of the improved model is much larger 8-cell battery.


Heat and noise

AH550 The cooling system had no problem to meet the Core i3 and HD integrated graphics GMA, but finished in the top compared to other models. System fan does not seem to scale efficiently between Compaq HP 6710b battery charges, is slow or down to rest and gradually increasing speed under load. From our point of reference, the fan rotates at high speed to remove as soon as the benchmark started, and off just as quickly once the reference is stopped. The noise level was high enough to be heard in a small office, in a quiet, even with the normal background noise.


Battery

The Fujitsu LifeBook AH550 comes with a battery of six or eight cells depending on the model purchased. The lowest setting, with integrated graphics comes with six-cell battery 43Wh, the highest setting, with a dedicated graphics card battery is no longer 75Wh. Fujitsu believes that the life of the six-cell battery for 3.5 hours and 5.25 hours to eight cells. In our battery test with screen brightness reduced by 70 percent Wi-Fi connection and update a Web page every 60 seconds and Windows 7 states in the equilibrium profile, the AH550 stayed for 3 hours and 15 minutes.



Conclusion

The Fujitsu LifeBook AH550 is a multimedia Compaq HP nc6120 battery with a fairly simple, minimalist look. The piano black shell and inside a long way to help the department, but does not have buttons on the media, speakers, large or high screen resolution options offered by other media mobile communication oriented in this market segment. Fujitsu has come a long way to improve the pricing model of its range of phones, but $ 749 might expect to see a small bump on duty when all the other parts begin to component level Intel . If this book had a screen resolution of slightly larger, even an optional 8-cell battery was standard input, it would be a good desktop replacement. In general, the AH550 is worth watching if you are looking for a stylish entry-spec laptop for under $ 800.

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