Fujitsu Esprimo Q1500 flexes Blu-ray muscle on video
By Vladislav Savov 
posted Sep 8th 2009 6:22AM
posted Sep 8th 2009 6:22AM
posted Sep 8th 2009 6:22AM
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Windows 7 32-Bit?
So does it have a powerful GPU? lots of talk on the CPU spec and how small it is, but without a decent off-loading GPU it all seems like quite a waste. I've be burned with stupid intel on board graphics in the past, if it doesn't have a card at least as powerful as an ION system then I certainly won't be buying one.
Unless you're going to be gaming, a 2.8Ghz C2D will handle all your media with ease.
What exactly do you need to offload from a 2.8Ghz C2D ? Your search for a cure for cancer ?
Maybe his search for efficiency and versatility? Nubs.
When will it ship in europe?!?!? Can't wait to get my hands on it here in Croatia!
not bad
Make it a bit cheaper and not ugly as sin... then I would be tempted
I will stay with Asrock ION330 blu-ray option, Win7 64bit with CyberLink for bly-ray playback and XBMC Live on usb stick with new nVidia linux drivers vdpau enabled for anykind of media playback.
I'm sure 64bit makes a real difference to your media playback my HD video plays fine on a pentium dual core 2GB ram and 32bit Win7.
What was the base DVD/Core 2 Solo model of this quoted at, $1,000? $700 if you assume charitable 1-to-1 Euro-to-dollar conversion? The T9600 alone goes for $550. The Asrock ION330-BD - dual-core Atom with 1080p playback, HDMI and Blu-ray - is $650, $500 OS-less.
There's systems that are as good for media center functions that use less electricity. The Esprimo is a SFF desktop computer, a Mac mini competitor with Blu-ray - the only practical benefit the Esprimo has in a media center environment over an Atom/Ion system is better encoding/transcoding performance.
I wonder how much of the bank this will break when it hit the shelves
See Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs? Still too much bag of hurt for you?
Isn't the T9600 a high end mobile processor? I'm sure that's alot better than the P7350 in the mac mini. Give me an ION in it and a good price and you got me!
Well it must have a decent GPU in it if it can play both 1080p bluray and a 720p file in WMP at the same time!
Dell Zino HD competitor ???
Esprimo? Huh? How many marketing guys did it take to come up with that name?
(I guess in Spanish "Es Primo" might mean "it's the best" or something like that)
Primo is spanish for cousin....so ES PRIMO is like "is cousin"
Hello,
someone knows which blu ray Slot in drive fujitsu built into the small
cube? Would be great to know...
Thx
Nothing like those damned Windows and Intel stickers to really throw off a case. At least it is not as bad as when they are on notebooks, right UNDER the palm rest so it scratches you ever time you use the notebook.
I don't know about you, but I just peel them off.
They're stickers. You can unstick them.
I normally stick them on my fridge or tv. people come over and it makes them lol.
Could you replace the DVD drive in a Mac Mini with a laptop BluRay drive (slot loading obviously)?
Is the remaining hardware HDCP compatible?
What are some of the competitors to this thing? I'm surprised we haven't seen more of these Mac-Mini-with-Blu-ray-PC things. I want one to hook up to a big flatscreen.
It looks like a cheap car stereo from K-mart.
Why is it the sticker says Pentium when everyone is quoting core2duo?
The cheaper models use pentium dual cores.
What are the advantages of owning this and such "mini" computers? just the portability? is it that much better than a laptop? Please do explain
The fittability. Under your hdtv...ility.
What purpose you ask? - well I for one would like a small portable media center that I could take anywhere that has an HDMI hookup (for a projector/TV). Blu-Ray- IMO is THAT good. If it has a cheap price point it's even better. PLUS- hooking it up to your tv and switching your tv's source to hdmi and surfing the web between comercials (wirelessly of course) is nice.
Credit Cyberlink PowerDVD for the optimized Blu-ray playback performance. This feat has more to do with software than the hardware that is the subject of this article. As noted above... the GPU is just as important to video playback as the CPU. More specs please!
I agree with you completely. I have a more beefy machine than this and using software like VLC it can't even play a single BD stream off hard disk without burping. But PowerDVD 9 works pretty well.
Open source software is great, but sadly it's not very optimized in this case.
Looks pretty good.
I would love to have something like this.
pointless for HTPC if I can't control it WELL with a harmony remote
Why do I want my CPU going flat out doing something that the GPU is designed for and better suited too? Typically off-loaded video quality is better and makes the overall system more responsive as it doesn't have the CPU grinding away doing the hard work. Seems a waste putting in a fast CPU an then putting in a rubbish graphics card.
Too bad it's kinda ugly. The plastic case looks cheap, and all the greebles make it look busy.
Specs look great, though-- should be good for everything but gaming. I'd be curious to know how 1080p video runs without decent hardware acceleration, though.
It says it is HDMI, but that is a DVI connection with a HDMI adapter... Coax? optical? How will I get my 7.1 surround to my reciever...
If you take a peek at picture 12, you'll see the blue line-in jack. Interesting red light coming out of it, no? The printing the the left of it appears to show input and output. I'd say that's not only line-in, but also Mini-Optical out. Or I could be wrong, but I don't get the red light emanating from that jack.
And also in picture 30, it shows a very bright red light coming from it.
See the Window experience Index? 3.4... that is probably a Intel X4500 GPU.
If I am not mistaken, it is the same stuff (and oem'ed) as AOpen mini-pc MP-45BDR with a better looking WMC remote. The barebone one can get around $500 from logicsupply. Nice little machine, quiet and energy efficient. No problem in 720P, but 1080P will depend on what kind of files you are playing.
Looks cute. But it lacks a firewire 800/3200 connection to make it complete
Complete specifications are here:
http://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/docs/ds-esprimo-q1500-dt-aug09.pdf