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Vista - Is It Some Sort Of Drug?
Blog I have known since the Vista disk in my Lifebook S6510 got corrupted and wouldn't boot that I would have to reload it before SP1 comes out. That all went very smoothly, and within an hour or so I was up and running with Vista in exactly the state...
[March 7, 2008, 14:06]
Nuggets: Fujitsu Siemens Gets Speedy
News Fujitsu like the sound of this, so it's incorporating it into its LifeBook range of notebooks. At the bottom of the new offerings is the LifeBook E-6540. Then there's the LifeBook X-7550, powered by a 650MHz Pentium III processor, which pushes the...
[January 21, 2000, 16:31]
S6510: XP Faster, More Stable Than Vista
Blog I tried loading on a Fujitsu Lifebook S6120 (Intel Pentium-M 1.6 GHz), and while it would load and boot, it was ridiculously slow, the Aero interface wouldn't run, and there were quite a few devices that I couldn't get Vista drivers for.
[January 13, 2008, 20:44]
Ubuntu On Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Having had so much success with Ubuntu on the older "test" laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110), and not expecting to want to try Vista on the newer Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 again anytime soon, I decided to try installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron...
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
Vista SP1 - No Go For Me At The Moment
Blog I had reloaded the Vista disk for my Lifebook S6510 a week or so ago, so that I would have a fresh load ready for update. I have been waiting anxiously for the public release of Vista SP1. Today it became available.and although I checked Microsoft...
[March 19, 2008, 19:38]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog After several days of struggle, I am still unable to get a triple-boot disk set up on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. Rather than do exactly that, though, I also have Acronis Disk Director Suite, which knows how to copy partitions, so I figured I would...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
Windows Vista - Here I Go Again!
Blog I have now take the XP Professional disk out, and put the Vista disk back into this Lifebook S6510. Well, I must be completely daft. But I've said it before - I want Vista to work. I want it to be better, faster, more secure, or whatever, than...
[February 19, 2008, 13:02]
Vista To XP - A Forced Retreat
Blog It has been exactly a week since I put the Vista Business disk back into my main laptops, a Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. Fortunately, I had the disk drive loaded with XP Pro for this laptop with me. I suppose what I will do is wait for Vista SP1 to come...
[February 26, 2008, 8:49]
Dual-Boot Ubuntu And Windows XP Professional
Blog As always, I have started this on the older "test" laptop, a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110, which has an AMD Turion 64 CPU. I kept my "primary" Windows XP disk intact, by using a second disk drive which I had previously used to test Vista and...
[June 13, 2008, 10:30]
Vista Vs. XP: The Final Retreat
Blog My Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 is running Windows XP Professional again, and I have no intention of spending any more time or effort on Vista until Vista SP2 comes out, at which point I might consider it again.
[April 24, 2008, 20:19]
Renewed Adventures With Vista
Blog It has been a few months since I last gave up on Vista on my Lifebook S6510 laptop. I have loaded a disk from scratch with the "Vista Recovery DVD" that came with my laptop. Microsoft says "Get the facts.
[August 5, 2008, 8:48]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Although I did choose to go back to XP on my other Lifebook, so far I have not wanted or needed to do so on this one. While it looks and feels similar to my two previous Lifebook laptops (S2110 and S6120), the difference is enormous.
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
SP3 Under Suspicion Again
Blog I had been running this Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 with Windows XP Professional for several months when SP3 came out. However, because I have started to use Linux quite a bit more, and I wanted a multi-boot system with Windows and Linux available, I...
[July 18, 2008, 9:37]
Quad-Boot Fun, And A Correction
Blog I now have my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 set up to quad-boot XP/Ubuntu/openSuSE/Mandriva! When I went through the disk partitioning in openSuSE, it came up with its own idea about how and where to install, and then gave me three options - accept, edit...
[July 2, 2008, 13:41]
Vista SP1 Installed, Working OK So Far
Blog The installation of Vista SP1 completed normally on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to be running normally for the time being. Sometimes, in the middle of starting or running a program, it sort of "stops", thrashes around on the disk for a bit, if...
[August 6, 2008, 11:12]
An Impressive Week With Ubuntu
Blog I mentioned last week that I had loaded Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my older "test" laptop, a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110. Of course, the display, keyboard and mouse worked; the ethernet worked, and was correctly configured for DHCP; the USB...
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
Vista SP1 - One Week Update
Blog It has been a week since I installed Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1) on this Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 laptop computer. The bad news is that there is still some sort of intermittent problem with the wireless connection between the Lifebook and the...
[March 31, 2008, 10:17]
More Pleasant Surprises With Ubuntu
Blog If it continues to go this way, what I will probably do is try loading Ubuntu on the newer Lifebook S6510, and see how it works there. If all of that works, I'll keep Ubuntu on that one, and swap the S2110 back to the Windows XP Pro disk.jw 3/6/2008
[June 3, 2008, 11:01]
OpenSUSE 11.0 First Impressions
Blog The installation only took about 15 minutes on the newer Lifebook S6510 (Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz) laptop. It asks questions about disk layout, desktop management and such which experienced users are likely to be very happy to see early in the...
[June 20, 2008, 12:45]
60GB Disk Is Very Slow
Member Review My S-6120 has 512 MB of RAM and a 60GB disk, and I run it with Windows XP. The disk appears to be very slow. For example, when activating Mozilla, which has been minimised for a while, the disk may keep active for a minute (yes, a whole minute...
[April 28, 2004, 9:11]
