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Fujitsu Fujitsu LifeBook E8410

75

Good

  • Pros
  • Can use two batteries at once
  • Optional eraserhead pointing device
  • Cons
  • Tinny-sounding speakers
  • Performance: Fair: 65
  • Features: Very Good: 80
  • Design: Very Good: 82
Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS21008
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX431
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering762
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)3:42:50 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit31
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit38.7
Firefox 2306
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1386
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0264
Multitasking400
Nero 7 Ultra Edition1502
Number of Included Batteries1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5246
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0455
WorldBench 6 Score73
WorldBench 6 Word ScoreFair

What You Should Know about the Fujitsu LifeBook E8410

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.