Fujitsu bumps Amilo 3540 to Centrino 2

Fujitsu-Siemens's Amilo 3000 laptops have always been decidedly stylish in their two-tone duds, and now the company's polishing them up a bit with new Centrino 2-based guts. First out the gate is the 15.4-inch Amilo Pi 3540, which features the new platform and NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS graphics driving a display Fujitsu-Siemens claims is dramatically better than the industry standard. There's also a spill-proof keyboard, silent mode, and a 15-in-1 card reader. Europe only at the moment, should be out in August starting at £699 ($1,392).

[SuperSexyErik @ Jul 21st 2008 7:49PM]

Looks good !!
I wonder how long desktops will stick around now that the world is going wireless.

[jason @ Jul 21st 2008 9:39PM]

well until laptops become fully customizable with easily switchable components, and be able to properly handle heat of a high end CPU w/ 4 GPU's and 10 TB of memory.

[SuperSexyErik @ Jul 21st 2008 10:36PM]

hmm well I don't own a laptop so I don't know about the heat issue's... But i know most desktops don't have 10tb of memory...

[XenoX101 @ Jul 22nd 2008 6:28AM]

You're right, I bet people will be using wireless devices entirely in the future...














...like the HTC Touch Pro

[SK @ Jul 22nd 2008 9:13PM]

Desktops will remain until I don't need to tether my CPU to: printer, scanner, external hardrive, 2nd monitor, PDA, mp3 player, TV input, etc.

The CPU is not the problem, it's all the debris you have to connect to, still mainly with cables.

I had a laptop that eventually became immobilized by a cobweb of accessory cables.

[Khattab @ Jul 21st 2008 8:08PM]

"...display Fujitsi-Siemens claims..."

-> FujitsU

[maveric101 @ Jul 21st 2008 8:27PM]

9300M and europe only? next post.

[Miguel @ Jul 21st 2008 10:02PM]

Can't wait to see it in the USA, its a very chic and sophisticated labtop and I want it!!!!

[Revels @ Jul 22nd 2008 5:05AM]

Do you really say 'labtop' ?

[YpoCaramel @ Jul 21st 2008 9:38PM]

I don't get why Fujitsu never offers models with decent graphics cards. At least offer one model, I think.

[iofthestorm @ Jul 21st 2008 11:04PM]

Pretty sure the 9300M is fairly decent. It should be able to run anything except Crysis well at medium/low settings, and maybe Crysis at 640x480 lowest settings.

[notjoel @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:27AM]

you guys accidently threw "fujitsi" in there instead of "fugitsu"

[reem @ Jul 22nd 2008 4:52AM]

booooooo...get off the stage, you suck!