Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS Tablet PC

Review: Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS Tablet PC

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The Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS has solid credentials. It's based on Intel's Napa platform (with Atheros WiFi card, though), ensuring a decent compromise between power, heat and battery life. We especially like the dual-swivel Tablet TFT, which is eminently readable in practically any environment.

More good is to be found with the range of connectivity options, covering Bluetooth, WiFi and Gigabit LAN through to an embedded UMTS card, offering truly go-anywhere connectivity.

But we'd want the laptop to be fitted with at least 1GiB of RAM and a more spacious hard drive. We'd also like an ExpressCard slot as standard. Furthermore, with portability near the top of the usual features-list for Tablet notebooks, a sleeker, lighter chassis would have been nice - something around 1.6kg with battery and optical drive.

The VAT-inclusive price of £1,250 is expensive for the specifications when compared to fixed-screen laptops but average for a similarly-equipped Tablet competitor. The Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS is a good product: nothing more, nothing less. It's certainly good enough to be put on a shortlist but doesn't fit into the must-buy category.

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Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4215 UMTS

HEXUS Where2Buy

A higher-specified version of this laptop, complete with 1GiB of DDR2 RAM, 80GB hard drive and three-year warranty is available here for £1,349, including VAT.

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