Amilo Mini: Is Fujitsu giving it up to cheap laptops?

Three to five years ago, the trend was this — the smaller the laptop, the more expensive they’ve become. The Lifebooks of Fujitsu and the Libretto’s of Toshiba were at the top of the heap. Portability was a premium then, until Asus came into the scene.

This month, several leaked pictures and video of an upcoming Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Mini has been going around. The price — a nice starting point of $475PHP 27,876INR 40,256EUR 452CNY 3,457 {via}.

So now we know that it’s not that expensive to shrink the laptop to a more comfortable size. All along Fujitsu and Toshiba are giving us the impression that it’s expensive to miniaturize hardware. While generally it’s true, it’s still not impossible to do it affordably as long as you have enough people buying it.

No details on specs for the Fujitsu Amilo Mini is available but it’s confirmed to be in the 8.9-inch form factor and will run Windows XP/Vista.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

10 Comments

deuts says:

16 years ago

Indeed, Fujitsu used to be selling these kinds of laptops for P120k and above. They’ll definitely lose the battle against the likes of the Eee PC.
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blozoom! says:

16 years ago

eee pc saves the day.
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Kuya Kevin says:

16 years ago

It’s good to see laptops going down in price. Well, I’ve converted to Mac, so they haven’t gone down that much for me.
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pinoy websurfer says:

16 years ago

hmm so they have the expensive lifebook P1620 and no the cheap Mini.
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Andre says:

16 years ago

theyre expensive but hwo do they compare statwise? Asus has small expensive laptops also but with more power than the eeepc
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mpeg4 to mp3 converter says:

14 years ago

if you couldnt tell it was noit an iphone then you better get your eyes checked.PR after allowing the ACRONYM title=Gay>***/ACRONYM> Cure app into the appstore?I am on 4.1. How is it possible that the 4.2.1 unteathered JB does not work now?
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Drew Giachino says:

13 years ago

Mivo el edo seco per kizo.Ona la pesa ?
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koni says:

13 years ago

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