I was so impressed by that Fujitsu laptop that I convinced my parents to replace their shitty full-on plastic and hard-to-open and upgrade laptops with those Fujitsu ones. My father will have that 100 Euro model I was writing about. And my mother a similar model but with 8GB of RAM, 180 GB SSD and a core i5-4a. For 200 Euros. So almost double the power. In the same format. We should get it this week.
Basically my father's laptop has a core i3 processor with 2 cores and 4 threads. I upgraded it to 8GB of DDR3 (had 1 more stick at home). Plus used his SSD from the old laptop. All for 100 Euros, 1 year warranty, and a few spare parts from the old laptop. The laptop is half metal and seems quite solid. It is damn fast with TROMjaro and basically if you want to open tens and tens of tabs, watch any video file, listen to music, even do photo editing and some video editing, or play some old school games, this laptop is perfect. I mean my father basically visits some websites, listens to some music at times, watches some live TV, and plays Solitaire and the like. For him this laptop is fantastic. More than he needs.
My mother's laptop looks exactly the same (just a few color differences), but has 8GB of RAM and if I can upgrade I will to 12. I have some RAM sticks around from old laptops. Has an SSD, and core i5 with 2 cores and 4 threads. Better than the i3. On this laptop you can do all of the above and even play more recent and decent games, and for sure do video editing and all that. For her this is more than enough. All for 200 Euros plus 1 year warranty.
Overall, and so far, I love these laptops. Super easy to upgrade, fix, and clean. Took me some 10 minutes to access the Disk and RAMs from my father's old computer, but around 20 seconds for the new one. That's the difference. Not only they are easy to fix, repair, and upgrade or clean, but they are sturdy enough. Top lid and top part where the keyboard is are metal.
They are also very Linux friendly. Everything works out of the box. The screen is decent. No webcam tho. Perhaps that's better for privacy, they don't use webcams anyway.
Anyhow, I love these laptops for the package: good build quality, easy to deal with them, linux friendly, and cheap as hell. 300 Euros for 2 laptops + 1 year warranty is not at all bad,
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in reply to Tio • • •your post made me curious, I never heard of anyone talking about Fujitsu laptops before, the repairability and Linux friendly aspect sounds great!
Unfortunately, they don't sell them in N. America:(
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in reply to LPS • •You can find them via ebay canada for example ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_…
Am telling you they are quite good for such a low price. The lifebook E series one I recommend. Of course I buy them second hand not new. The battery so far lasts just 2-3 hours max. They are made in 2014.
But yeah, 100 Euros for such a laptop is really cheap.
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in reply to Santiago • •That core i7 is great for most tasks. It seems a bit better than the i3 I currently test on the Fujitsu. I mean you can watch any sort of videos, open lots of tabs, visit any website, stream....documents, photos, whatever. Right?
It does look quite bulky that Vaio. Was it well built? I am sick of plastic laptops to be honest.
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