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Byline: Cliff Joseph
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 1520
Price [pounds sterling]699 Contact Fujitsu-Siemens www.nice-pc.co.uk
At [pounds sterling]699 the Amilo Si 1520 from Fujitsu-Siemens is one of the least expensive laptops in the group, yet it manages to provide attractive design, good performance and a useful range of features.
The Amilo is neatly designed in silver, with a black trim around the edges. The edges of the unit are tapered, giving it a streamlined appearance and making it easy to slip into a bag. Inside the solidly built chassis is a 1.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 512MB of Ram and an 80GB hard disk. That's not the fastest processor in this group, but the Amilo still produces quite respectable results in most of our performance tests and it will be more than adequate for running ordinary business applications or even doing the occasional spot of digital photography or multimedia editing. It's got a built-in Firewire port too, so you can easily connect a DV camcorder and import video clips straight onto the hard disk.
Admittedly, 3D graphics performance isn't particularly impressive, ...