Thin and light notebooks haven’t been all that popular with consumers over the past couple of years. Desktop replacement systems with their large 17″ screens and not moved much were the best sellers. The systems were still popular with corporations who needed powerful and mobile platforms. Fujitsu is not well known for consumers as most of its systems are geared towards businesses. Find out in my review if their latest thin and light notebook, the LifeBook S7110, is more consumer friendly.Fujitsu’s LifeBook avoids the trend of widescreen thin and light notebooks, but the features are more geared towards a corporate user that needs lots of battery life.Notebooks are coming into our life, both at home and at work. It’s getting more difficult to choose a model for your requirements. Sometimes manufacturers try to help us and offer their classifications. But this is often done by marketing departments, which bring further confusion to beginners, who operate with “consumer” characteristics rather than CPU clock or wireless card type. The situation is complicated by the fact that hardware configurations of most mass-scale notebooks look alike. Truly exclusive models are extremely rare.

Memory size is also not a limit to most applications. Especially as it can be easily upgraded to 1.5-2 GB in many models, it’s quite sufficient now (and even tomorrow – for Microsoft Vista).Capacities of modern mobile hard drives are sufficient for everything, even for medium-sized video libraries. Besides, you can easily use external storage devices with USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces.CPU clock makes a difference only in those tasks, where it has to give all it has got. Efficient performance and power management systems reduce its frequency the rest of the time. They try to increase its battery life and reduce the load on its cooling system. But in fact, there are not so many significant tasks.The LifeBook S7110 weighs in at a mere 1.8kg (with weight-saver option)– fairly impressive for a full-featured mainstream notebook as such. The S7110’s high-speed performance and array of features are as expected for a notebook of this price range.