The SlimEdge s6510, a newcomer to Fujitsu's series of lappies, just slid ominously through the letterbox. This little ninja looks *sharp. *
Its main cutting edge isn't that skinny form-factor, however, but the fact that its makers stuffed a 14.1" display into the chassis usually used for 13.3" models. The screen bezel is about 3/16ths of an inch thick. Read on for unboxing shots and first impressions of the new LifeBook ultraportable.
Let's fast-forward a moment: Here's a closeup of that bezel, next to some pixels. It's the design antidote to all these cheap super-popular laptops (Eee PC, Nanobook, etc) with bezels you could fit renaissance frescoes onto.
From the other side, straight out of the box. The S6510 doesn't come with a lot of goodies: just a charger, recovery disks and a plastic insert should you wish to remove the optical drive for more battery life or less weight.
I'm fairly sure the 14" display is the largest current offered in an traditionally-ultraportable form-factor (it weighs about three and a half pounds). It's made possible by the rapidly-decreasing size of the bare-metal technology required to power LED-backlit LCD displays.
It's otherwise not an ostentatious design. Apple fans will surely be taking notes and hoping Cupertino's expected MacBook update will incorporate similar trickery.
The keyboard is very traditional, and full-sized. No Vaio-esque radical moves here.
Four programmable meta keys: they're set by default to open some basic apps.
Front and center: turn off the WiFi for more juice; plug in FireWire peripherals; and the standard rack of headphone jacks.
Just two USB ports, but it does have standard ethernet and an optical drive, two features occasionally left out of the smaller notebooks.
On the left, there's a good old-fashioned PC card slot, a faxmodem, and an SD/xD card reader. I suspect the little glassy panel next to it is IrDA.
There's also VGA-out, deemed sufficiently ugly to warrant concealment behind a fingernail panel.
Though far from the thinnest or smallest ultraportable, the specs suggest it'll punch well above its weight: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 clocked to 2.2 GHz, up to 4GB of RAM, WiFi n, Bluetooth, a GMA X3100 GPU with 384MB of video memory and a webcam round it out.
