http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/ Engadget Comments for Fujitsu brings M2010 netbook to North America, packs in few surprises http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/Jun 2nd 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/Jun 2nd 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/Jun 2nd 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/Jun 2nd 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/Jun 2nd 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/
all microphones are inherently analog... unless sound works differently now and i was not made aware.

and all microphones on a computer have to convert that analog signal to digital at some point.]]>Jun 2nd 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/
I'm assuming one of the following is true:

1. It is an analog microphone put through a digital noise filter to make the audio sound clean. This is usually very nice, since microphones are traditionally scratchy and junk on laptops.

or

2. If you were to remove the microphone from the netbook, you would discover that it is merely a USB microphone with a digital audio driver to handle it. This is also nice because it will definitely be much louder than a traditional PC mic and will harness power saving features to only use it when necessary.

Either way, you win. I'm guessing its #2 (or some combination of both) by utilizing an extra USB port off of the Bluetooth addon card to power it.

I'm interested in the fast startup time on a standard copy of XP, because my optimized installer currently boots in 30 seconds on my junky netbook. I'm sure my version would be closer to 20 seconds on this netbook, and I will def get one if they drop the price a bit and have other color options.]]>Jun 2nd 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://computershopper.com/laptops/reviews/fujitsu-m2010-mini-notebook]]>Jun 2nd 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/
Most netbooks have three USB ports.

There's no such a thing as a digital microphone in that they all start with some kind of analogue sensor which turns sound waves into electricity - which is then sampled and then sent as a stream of numbers to be processed. Technically - ALL computer microphones are 'digital'.

Whether it's USB or direct connect to the codec hardware is irrelevent. If it's a USB mic internally - then it has a codec in the USB interface rather than a dedicated one on the motherboard, but since the device also has an audio in jack, there has to be a codec chip on the motherboard anyway - so I'm betting it's not a USB mic at all.

Bluetooth - definitely nice, and unfortunately relatively uncommon on netbooks (which is stupid).

That leaves the 50 second boot time. I'm willing to bet it's 50 seconds when you get it - but in a few months it won't be that anymore as you install more and more things that have to get started up at boot time.]]>Jun 2nd 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/fujitsu-brings-m2010-netbook-to-north-america-packs-in-few-surp/
FAIL!]]>Jun 2nd 2009 7:50PM