S6510/Vista Vs. S2110/XP Professional
Blog Lifebook S6510.Lifebook S2110 Microsoft provides a rather nice "XP Power Tool" for image resizing, which makes it easy to reduce digital camera pictures to a reasonable size for email attachment. The first was the fact that while the S6510 came...
[January 9, 2008, 13:06]
Wireless-N (802.11n) Success!
Blog Comment Addendum - I have now downloaded and installed the Microsoft WPA2 patch for Windows XP Professional, on the Lifebook S2110. I then changed the security to WPA2, left the encryption on TKIP, and it connected to the Linksys WRT350N router with no...
[January 7, 2008, 19:01]
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. The OmniPass software included with the Lifebook walked me through activating the fingerprint reader with my Windows account, and...
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
S6510: XP Faster, More Stable Than Vista
Blog I have just been forced to that conclusion once again, on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. 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...
[January 13, 2008, 20:44]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful And Maddening
Blog Mandriva seemed to do an excellent job of identifying and loading drivers for the hardware in my Lifebook S2110 (AMD Turion 64) laptop. I will continue testing it, and eventually I will try installing it on my main laptop (Lifebook S6510) to see...
[July 1, 2008, 11:07]
Windows XP SP3 Installed
Blog I have downloaded and installed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. According to an article by Mary Jo Foley on the ZDNet.com site, Microsoft has suddenly decided not to release XP SP3 to Windows Update and the...
[April 30, 2008, 8:53]
SP3 Under Suspicion Again
Blog I had been running this Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 with Windows XP Professional for several months when SP3 came out. As described previously, the first time I reloaded XP, and I just let it go through the update download and installation from the...
[July 18, 2008, 9:37]
Windows Driver Updates
Blog Because of my recent adventures with Windows Vista on my Lifebook, I've had to learn about and deal with the differences between Vista and XP in third-party device driver distribution and updates. Many webcams today are compatible with the generic...
[May 13, 2008, 12:49]
Maybe Vista Really Is Getting Better
Blog This laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook S6510) has the optional 1 GB of "TurboMemory", and I can guarantee you that the previous times I ran Vista I could not see anything unusual about the suspend/resume speed.
[August 8, 2008, 7:51]
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]
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 copied all of my photographs from the XP disk to a Freecom USB drive...
[March 24, 2008, 10:37]
Intel Classmate PC review
Reviews The Classmate's 900MHz Intel Celeron M processor was only slightly slower on that test than the Fujitsu LifeBook U810, which is an Ultra-Mobile PC that uses Intel's newer Ultra Low Power A110 CPU, specifically designed for smaller PCs.
[November 2, 2007, 10:03]
