FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO Pi 3540 REVIEW

AMILO Pi 3540 – from the house of Fujitsu Siemens

The most recent to adhere the panda team is Fujitsu Siemens. All right, so it’s Amilo Pi 3540 has completely jack crouch to do with pandas, but it is black and white, and that's high-quality sufficient for our agitated imaginations. You can purchase one of these fashionable 15.4-inch multimedia work panda shores now for a paltry £700.

Design
There are quite a few things we akin to about the Pi 3540's intend. It has front facing audio jacks, building it trouble-free to bond a set of headphones. The headphone port yet doubles as a digital S/PDIF jack so you can harvest a surround-sound indication to a set of well-matched exterior speakers. There's also a front-facing memory card window, and a 1.3-megapixel webcam, with assortment mics on each side of it.

Performance
The Pi 3540 is a Centrino 2 notebook, so it assures strong, proficient presentation. £699 acquires you a reasonably freezing Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 CPU sprinting at 2.26GHz, and 4GB of 800MHz DDR RAM. Regardless of being a Centrino 2 notebook with a comparatively quick CPU, the Pi 3540 is a normal performer. It watched a meager 2,380 in PC Mark 2005, which is pretty lame bearing in mind the correspondingly priced Samsung Q210 racked up 5,184. 3D presentation isn't so hot any way. It gained 2,259 in 3DMark 2006 which, to its recognition, is a miniature bit enhanced than the Samsung.

Battery sprint life is pretty standard, too. It sustained 1 hour 30 minutes in our CPU-intensive Battery Eater examination, and 2 hours 35 minutes in the fewer concentrated reader examination. That's pretty lame evaluated to the 3 hours 14 minutes and 5 hours 28 minutes accomplished by the Q210.

We have to provide crutches to Fujitsu Siemens for the Pi 3540's tremendously calm operation. You can scarcely hear the fixation when it's sprinting, and that's not anything to do with the gimmicky 'quiet mode' push button above the keyboard, which appears to serve completely no purpose.

Overall
The Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pi 3540 is a comparatively average notebook with above-average glances. It doesn't do extremely well in any fastidious area, but it is appealingly reasonably priced, so for that it receives our admiration. However, if you're subsequent to a quicker, lighter, longer-lasting, albeit uglier Centrino 2 notebook, you'll be enhanced off with the Samsung Q210.

Pros
+ Styling
+ Ample hard drive storage

Cons
- Standard battery life and presentation
- Only two USB ports provided.

Value For Money

Our Rating