Depends on your battery life.. I was considering and hoping to
upgrade but not going ahead eventually.. too financially taxing..
anyway, P7010D's main competition is more the Sony T17GP/S. You
really have to ask yourself, do you want an ultraportable to be
portable, or do you want it to have immense battery life and
essentially handle everything ??
I won't compare the Acer as I'm not a fan and have never done much
research on it.
The Acer only has 4.5hrs Batt life btw, but specs are slightly
higher.
The Sony T17GP/S is almost a replica of the P7010D. Price is even
almost the same. Both have Battery Life that can go up to 8hrs, and
can perform most office applications, basic media applications
quite well, essentially, what a home user will do. You can't play
games, and you definitely cannot do much professional work on it
(e.g. engineering). The screen is too small for that, but office
applications are fine. They utilise a ULV Pentium-M Processor which
is really effective for the home user but that's about it. Both
notebooks come with 512mb of memory which will speed things up alot
so don't worry about performance unless as I said, you're not the
home user.
The Sony has an incredibly bright and sharp screen with XBrite
technology, while the P7010D has a superior screen but not as
great. The P7010D comes with fingerprint recognition technology
which is a great substitute for passwords! but reviews have shown
that since it's so small, it can be come an issue too if you do not
swipe your finger across the scanner properly. The P7010D also has
way better specs than the Sony! The Fujitsu utilises 2.5" HDD while
the Sony utilises 1.8" if i'm not wrong, and the 2.5" are alot more
stable and perform at a higher rotational speed meaning your data
is accessed alot faster.
The Sony is slightly cheaper, and comes with 2 variations, one with
bluetooth, 60g hdd, 1.2ghz processor, the other comes with just a
40g hdd and 1.1ghz processor. Price is similar so decide from
there. Fujitsu is a little more expensive.
Hardware aside, Software Wise, Sony gives the definite better,
despite coming with alot of bloatware ( you can not install them,
but some of them are really cool ), Fujitsu on the other hand gives
you crap - Best comparison of this: Sony - Norton Antivirus Fujitsu
- Norman Antivirus (WTF IS NORMAN!?).
Terms of looks, it's very subjective.
Warranty, Fujitsu is more covered than Sony (Sony only has 1yr
Local), so I'd feel that the Fujitsu is safer.. BUT.. Fujitsu isn't
all that durable. My darling spilled orange juice on her Fujitsu
and it died. My IBM Thinkpad however, has withstood drops from
heights above 2m, spilled beer, drinks, food, 2L of coke, 2L of
juice and it's still going fine, no damage at all actually.
It's up to you to consider from here, Hardware - Fujitsu owns,
Software - Sony owns, Warranty - Fujitsu owns, Durability - Sony
owns.
I'd feel that if you want an ultraportable for size but do not need
such huge battery life, go for the Acer, and compare to the IBM-X
series. You'll find the IBM highly enticing. These type of
ultraportables have more "firepower" so to speak.
Good Luck & All The Best,
SupaFatty
