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Saturday, June 16, 2012

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Fujitsu Lifebook LH532

Among budget-priced laptops, there's a good rule of thumb to always bear in mind: Appearances can be deceiving. Case in point: the Fujitsu Lifebook LH532 mainstream laptop looks great on the shelf, with a sleek-looking design covered in stickers that highlight features like USB 3.0 and Wireless Display. But despite a roster of appealing features, it came up short, with sputtering performance and a short-lived battery.

Design
The Lifebook LH532 has a glossy-black plastic chassis, and with blue LED indicator lights, a glowing blue power button, a black matte rubber soft-touch finish across the lid, and Fujitsu's infinity snake logo in polished chrome. Weighing 4.5 pounds and measuring 1.41 by 13.19 by 9.45 inches (HWD), the Lifebook LH532 is roughly the same size as the Editors' Choice Dell Inspiron 14z (Core i5) ($750 direct, 4 stars).

The 14-inch Lifebook has comfortable soft-touch panels on the plamrest and a spill-resistant keyboard. It's not light enough to use on the go every day, but for those times you may need to work through lunch?or take your work with you to lunch?you can rest assured that it will survive your occasional slops and spills. The soft touch finish of the palmrest also covers the trackpad, which has a raised pattern of dots to indicate the touch surface. It works well enough, and the right and left mouse buttons are soft and rubbery, making them both comfortable and quiet.

The 14-inch display has 1,366-by-768 resolution, which is par for the course, letting you enjoy movies in 720p or tile windows side-by-side for multitasking. Generic stereo speakers may not produce spectacular sound, but when tested with streaming audio (Queen's "Princes of the Universe") the sound quality was clear at all but the highest volumes, though it was too quiet at low volume.

Features
While the Lifebook LH532 has all of the standard features you might expect, like an SD card reader, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, microphone and headphone jacks, and VGA and HDMI outputs for connecting an external monitor or HDTV, Fujitsu has also added plenty of unexpected premium features as well, like three USB 3.0 ports (one with charging capability), a DVD+-RW drive with dual-layer read and write support and Bluetooth connectivity. For those who don't want to hassle with an HDMI cord, the Lifebook LH532 is also outfitted with Wireless Display 2 (WiDi 2.0), which transmits HD video and audio wirelessly, through an adapter, like the Belkin ScreenCast or the Netgear Push2TV ($99 list).

The 750GB 5,400rpm hard drive found in the Lifebook LH532 is one of the largest in the category?the Dell Inspiron 14z and the Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4830T-6841 ($649.99 list, 4 stars) both offer 640GB?and Fujitsu doesn't clutter it up with a bunch of bloatware, including only a 30-day trial of Norton Internet Security Software, Microsoft Office 2010 Starter, and a Google toolbar. Fujitsu covers the Lifebook LH532 with a one-year warranty.

Performance
Fujitsu Lifebook LH532 The Lifebook LH532 is equipped with a 2.3GHz Intel Core i3-2350M dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM, similar to the 2.2GHz Intel Core i3-2330M CPU seen in both the HP Pavilion dm4-2165dx ($649.99 list, 3.5 stars) and Sony VAIO VPC-EH25FM ($599.99 list, 3.5 stars). With a faster CPU, the Lifebook LH532 beat out both in Cinebench processor speed tests?2.17 points as opposed to the HP dm4 (2.02) and the Sony VPC-EH25FM (2.11)?but without providing the same performance. In PCMark 7 performance tests, the Lifebook LH532 scored 1,802 points, falling behind both the HP dm4 (1,940) and the Sony VPC-EH25FM (1,865), not to mention the Core i5-equipped category leaders, like the Dell Inspiron 14z (2,308).

The difference in performance was even more pronounced in media tasks. In Handbrake, the Lifebook LH532 took 2 minutes 45 seconds to convert our test video from one format to another. By comparison, the similarly-equipped HP Pavilion dm4-2165dx completed it in 2:22, while similarly priced Core i5 systems, like the Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4830T-6841 (1:57), completed the same test in under 2 minutes. In Photoshop CS5 the performance dropped from middling to lousy, taking 12 minutes 16 seconds to grind through a test completed in 5:22 by the slowest competitor, the HP dm4-2165dx. As expected in a system with middling performance and integrated graphics, gaming is limited to the most basic games.

The Lifebook LH532 also came up short in battery tests. It lasted only 5 hours 1 minute in MobileMark 2007, which is reasonable given the laptop's 48Wh battery, but similarly priced competitors pack larger batteries and longer life, such as the 55Wh battery in the HP dm4-2165dx (7:58) or the 65Wh battery found in the Dell Inspiron 14z (8:38).

The slow performance and short battery life of the Fujitsu Lifebook LH532 were disappointing, given the promise of compelling features like a spill-resistant keyboard, USB 3.0, and WiDi streaming. Unfortunately, all the clever features and design in the world can't compensate for poor performance, and the Fujitsu Lifebook LH532 falls short of competitors with similar price tags and specifications. While the $750 price tag of the Editors' Choice Dell Inspiron 14z may be a bit more than the budget-minded shopper wants to pay, alternatives closer in price to the Lifebook LH532, like the Acer Aspire TimelineX AS4830T-6841 and the Sony VAIO VPC-EH25FM provide superior performance, longer battery life, and better value for your dollar.

BENCHMARK TEST RESULTS:

COMPARISON TABLE
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Friday, June 15, 2012

This $7,000 Ping Pong Table Can Withstand Nuclear Warfare [Overkill]

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Editor's note: Our crack reporters, Sam Biddle and Mario Aguilar, were so eager to break the news of a $7,000 ping pong table that they each wrote about it at the same time. Oops. Gizmodo presents their duplicate efforts as if the words themselves are a ball being batted back and forth across a table. More »

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'Artist' Star Jean Dujardin Joins Scorsese's 'Wolf Of Wall Street'

Each casting announcement for "The Wolf of Wall Street," Martin Scorsese's follow-up to last year's "Hugo," adds prestige to the film and heightens our anticipation. The latest cast member to join the film is this year's Academy Award winner for Best Actor, Jean Dujardin. Variety is reporting that Dujardin is in talks to star opposite [...]

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How to Finance Your Small Business Venture | Money Chatter

Starting a small business? Then you have your work cut out for you. On top of developing a great business plan, you must also figure out how you are going to obtain the finances to bring that business plan to fruition. When it comes to financing your small business, you have several options (outside of begging your friends and family for money). Here are some suggestions for how to finance your small business venture:

Find a business partner. There are many people out there, with money, who are looking for great investments. If you have a solid business plan and don?t mind bringing someone else on board in your business, then it is a good idea to search for an investor who is willing to finance your small business expenses. Usually, this involves offering a percentage of your business income, or even giving the partner a share in the business. A great place to look for investing partners is on sites like Craigslist, and through investment clubs.

Take out a small business loan. Again, you will need a strong business plan for this option. Head into the bank you keep your business bank account with and ask your banker about business loans. Going through a bank to get a business loan may be one of the most difficult finance options to qualify for, but it may also be your most reliable funding source.

Use credit cards. Depending on your monetary needs, you may be able to finance your small business venture using credit cards. This is especially true if you are starting a business that requires extremely low overhead, and if you have credit card accounts that carry low interest rates. Just keep in mind that many credit cards carry high interest rates and fees, so you should be very choosy when deciding whether or not to use a particular credit card account to fund your small business.

Grants. It may be possible that your small business qualifies for grants, from either a government entity or a private organization. Visit your local library and ask about on-site grant research resources. Finding and applying for grants will cost you a considerable amount of time and effort, but the reward is that you are ?granted? with free money that you never have to pay back!

Refinance your home. If you own a home and have a considerable amount of equity in it, then perhaps the least expensive way you can finance your small business venture is to refinance and cash out on some of that equity. Rates are low these days, so a home equity loan or line of credit might be your best option.

As you can see, there are a lot of resources when it comes to financing your small business venture. Explore all of these avenues and decide which is best for you.

About the Author:?Elwood Formella is a small business owner who offers consulting to new entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses. He helps them to find loans for small business ventures, office space, and more.

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Report: Microsoft to manufacture their own Windows 8 tablet, goes after iPad

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Who hasn't gone after the iPad? Right? Looks like there's going to be an announcement where "Microsoft is set to unveil a tablet next week that will mark its entry into rival Apple's territory" says The Wrap - a Hollywood blog whose source is close to the project

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