21. Mobile Mark2002

We also conducted the benchmarks with Mobilemark2002 in two different energy schemes. The Lifebook S6120 was the winner here too, with its battery life lasting almost thirty minutes longer. If the clock rate is reduced on the S2010 by skillful selection of the energy scheme, there will be an additional fifteen minutes even on the machine powered by the low-voltage Athlon XP-M. Obviously, performance will then suffer, but a 533 MHz clock speed is perfectly sufficient for editing documents.

Low-Voltage Athlon XP-M: Not The Most Powerful, But Price-Wise, An Attractive Alternative For The Thin And Light Segment

The Lifebook S2010 and the Lifebook S6120 are two interesting devices offered in the area of thin and light notebooks by Fujitsu PC Corporation USA (or the Europe-based Fujitsu-Siemens Computers GmbH). While US customers have a choice between an ultra-portable with a low-voltage Athlon XP-M-CPU from AMD or a product run on a Pentium M, European customers are (gently) forced to buy Intel's latest wonder weapon "Centrino." The European model of the Lifebook S6120 with 1.6 GHz Pentium-M may well seem clearly (and measurably) faster, and will run up to a half hour longer on battery power.

There are three facts that speak in favor of buying the Lifebook S2010, which is only available in the US. First, it offers adequate performance for everyday business use; second, the battery life is not so short that it would interrupt the business day; and third - and this is probably the most important argument - the device provides the same functionality, including a WLAN function, at a shamelessly low price.