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Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 - Wrap-Up
Blog This will be the last entry that I will write specifically about my new Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. I have it completely set up and everything transferred from the Lifebook S2110, and port replicators installed both at home and in the office.
[January 7, 2008, 12:47]
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]
Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 - Wrap-Up
Blog Comment You seem to have identified a minimum satisfactory laptop specification for Windows Vista to perform reasonably. However, you have not mentioned the constant chatter of the hard disk, and other Vista irritations.
[January 7, 2008, 15:01]
Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 - Wrap-Up
Blog Comment Well, yes and no. Obviously it performs well enough that I am going to use it as my main PC. However, it doesn't perform nearly as well, compared to the S2110, as it should, considering the difference in the specifications and capabilities of the...
[January 7, 2008, 15:12]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Comment I have been a loyal Lifebook user for some time now, this is at leat the fifth Lifebook I've had, perhaps the sixth, and I have been pleased with every one of them. The configuration that I ordered, with 2.2GHz CPUs, 2 GB memory, 1GB Turbo Memory...
[January 3, 2008, 8:55]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Comment Nice review -- I've always found LifeBooks pretty solid pieces of kit. Look forward to seeing the rest of your report. Can you tell us how much the S6510 cost?
[January 3, 2008, 8:21]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog The keyboard and touchpad are the same that I have become used to in my previous Lifebook S-series laptops, with perhaps a bit more textured surface than before. While it looks and feels similar to my two previous Lifebook laptops (S2110 and S6120...
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
Status Update, Vista To XP Retreat (Advance?)
Blog It has been two weeks since I switched from Windows Vista back to Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, and two months since I made the same switch on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110.
[January 25, 2008, 12:00]
S6510: XP Faster, More Stable Than Vista
Blog I have just been forced to that conclusion once again, on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. So after a couple of months I got a new Fujitsu Lifebook S2110 (AMD Turion 64 2.0 GHz), which was listed as being "Vista Ready".
[January 13, 2008, 20:44]
Lifebook S6510 - Part 3; Networking, Software And Drivers
Blog I have continued to make good progress in moving to the new Lifebook S6510. This may turn out to be a driver problem on the Lifebook, or firmware in the Linksys router. The Lifebook S6510 seems to be a bit of a special case, just because it is so new.
[January 3, 2008, 13:43]
Quad-Boot Fun, And A Correction
Blog I now have my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 set up to quad-boot XP/Ubuntu/openSuSE/Mandriva! Therefore, what I did was install XP Professional in the first partition on the disk (I basically have to do that, because I am restoring from Fujitsu "Recovery...
[July 2, 2008, 13:41]
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. The first problem that I ran into was that the Windows installation disks I have are actually "recovery" media from Fujitsu, and as...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
Wireless Network Flakiness
Blog As I mentioned a few months ago, after returning from the U.S.with my new Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, this laptop has Wireless-N networking. So, I purchased a new Wireless-N router (Linksys WRT350N), and with a little bit of effort I was up and running...
[June 11, 2008, 14:57]
Windows XP SP3 Installed
Blog I have downloaded and installed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. I sincerely hope that OEMs such as Fujitsu, Dell, HP and the like, who will have to take the brunt of the customer support calls and...
[April 30, 2008, 8:53]
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]
Vista SP1 - Now Installed And Running
Blog Ok, in large part due to some good advice from David Long, I now have Vista SP1 installed on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, and after two days it is still running with no problems. I have updated various other drivers with much newer versions than are...
[March 24, 2008, 10:37]
Microsoft's Pre-modern Message Puts A New Face On Vista
Blog Comment This is not on "older hardware", it is a new Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, purchased last December, nearly a year after Vista was released. Yes, I have tried Vista repeatedly, and documented the success and failures in my blog.
[July 23, 2008, 13:22]
SP3 Under Suspicion Again
Blog I had been running this Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 with Windows XP Professional for several months when SP3 came out. I find myself suspecting that there is something very strange wrong with Windows XP SP3, or at least with the installation procedure...
[July 18, 2008, 9:37]
Wireless-N Networking And Linux
Blog I am doing this testing on my primary laptop, a Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, with a built-in Intel 4965AGN wireless adapter. After installing a new Netgear Wireless-N Dual Band Router (review), I was anxious to test Linux with it.
[August 4, 2008, 13:58]
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]
