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Fujitsu LifeBook T580 to sell in Europe this month

German buyers can get their hands on the new Fujitsu LifeBook T580 by the end of the month, according to liliputing.com. And it’s no ordinary netbook, although it might seem like it.

First of all, it’s another netvertible convertible tablet mini laptop, in case you thought nobody is making them anymore. You can turn the screen, fold it down on the keyboard and use it as a tablet, as it supports four finger multi touch. Not a great surprise here, as the improvement of capacitive screens will move into keyboard bound territory to a point where is impossible not to thumb instead of typing.

Fujitsu LifeBook T580

Back to the T580, the specs don’t really make you think at a netbook, but more at a notebook in disguise. The size fits the netbook game, as it boosts a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel multi touch capacitive display. But the rest kind of doesn’t.

The processor is a Intel Core i5-560UM and the system memory checks in at a hefty 4GB. There’s also a 500 GB hard disk drive and everything runs on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit and you can also go for the touch pack, a sum of games and applications especially designed by Microsoft to be used with your fingers. You can connect using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G while keeping an eye on the 6 cell, 5800mAh battery.

What’s the best thing about a netbook, might it be a netvertible? Yes, the price. Usually ranging at $400-$700, netbooks are widely available, but it’s not the case of Fujitsu’s T580. The price for this hard to define machine is around $1200, making it virtually inaccessible, on a first look.

Having a tablet netbook with those specs is surely great, but not when you stick to it a prohibitive price. But for now, the T580 seems aimed at professionals or corporate employees, not at students for sure. But an enthusiast can dream and wait for a massive sale.

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Last updated: March 27, 2012 | Published: November 14th, 2010 | See the comments or add yours!

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zeo
“Netvertible” is basically slang for a convertible tablet netbook, which this Fujitsu Lifebook T580 is clearly not.
Size notwithstanding, it’s just an unfortunate trend right now that people are just lumping anything similar to netbooks as netbooks. Even if the difference is like comparing a Mac to a PC.
This trend of course also confuses the end consumers who will have to figure out the differences on their own and have only really the price as the main obvious clue that something should be different. So I of course don’t approve of the misuse of these terms.
Anyway, Fujitsu has a history of making good UMPC Convertible Tablets and this is actually larger than most of them but has nicer specs that better justify the pricing but Fujitsu has always been very pricey and that unfortunately does not change with this model. But it’s nice having something of this performance class in the 10″ range for those who can afford it…
Other companies may follow suite one Intel Sandy Bridge starts taking over and makes squeezing these systems into smaller casing easier or they may wait for Ivy Bridge to come out by the later half of 2011.
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Well, I’m not saying you’re not somewhat right now, however, I doubt there’s an universal definition accepted for “netvertible”.
For me, netvertibles are small factor tablet PCs, regardless of the hardware inside. Perhaps I’m wrong, but that’s how i see them.
Of course, we’re not trying to confuse anyone here, nor I or the author of the post
I know I had the exact same talk when i called my Acer 1825PT a netvertible. Alas, what exactly is a netvertible? Or a netbook? Initially they were low powered machines with Intel Atom inside and affordable prices. But now there’s also AMD on the market. So I agree these terms might be a little bit confusing…
Still, it’s nice to have a machine like this Fujitsu soon on the market. I doubt it will become extremely popular though, as it is pricey and perhaps a tad too small for what an average user would want.
zeo
By and large the official companies making these systems are not using or creating these terms. Rather it’s bloggers who have created and spread these terms.
The term Netbook also started this way but at least it was mostly descriptive of the intended use of those systems. Followed by the fairly strict limitations Intel imposed upon their design and use. Consequently netbooks are still defined as a low powered mini laptop/notebook, and build and sold nearly at cost. While virtually all other computer products are sold with a much healthier profit margin.
What has become vague is the size can now go up to 12″ and premium features can justify above normal netbook pricing.
While using Netverible is fine for actual netbook based Convertible Tablets but applied to everything of similar size is like using nonsensical wordings like “Anyhoo”, “Anyhow”, or “Anywho” when the correct term is Anyway.
It’s just breaks down to slang but since the wording isn’t official it’s not like anyone can call you upon it unless they know it’s a made up word to begin with.
People are just lazy and slang wordings like Netvertible are very contagious as people make up their own meanings for the words and do not really care if the language is correct or not anymore.
And if enough people use the term then eventually it becomes official, which is pretty much how we wound up with the term Netbook in the first place.
But I just disapprove of it in this case because it only makes telling these systems apart harder for the end consumer and doesn’t properly describe the more powerful and more expensive systems.
AMD’s are a good example of how this is confusing end consumers because they aren’t netbooks but rather netbook alternatives that offer more power in exchange for more heat and less battery run time.
The distinction is just as great as between Netbooks and UMPC’s. Some UMPC’s are more similar to Netbooks than AMD systems, like the Viliv N5, but it’s fine to define it as different but somehow we can confuse AMD with netbooks.
So I would use the term for something like say the Viliv S10 Blade, which is a netbook based convertible tablet. But not this Fujitsu system. Because there is a definable difference and it’ll only confuses to lump them together.
I agree though that it may turn out to be mostly a niche product with its pricing and size. But that was true of the previous UMPC versions as well.