The Fujitsu LifeBook N6420 is a Core 2 Duo based laptop that was released circa 2006. In an era when the laptop market was dominated by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc., the LifeBook line by Fujitsu was somewhat less common. Unlike various Dell and HP models which came in a multitude of configurations, the LifeBook N6420 seems to have only had two basic configurations. Overall, it seems to have been a relatively high end model though not quite rising to the level of professional workstation or gaming powerhouse.
Specs of this particular model include:
- CPU: Core 2 Duo T5600 @ 1.83GHz
- Memory: 4 GB DDR2-333
- Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
- Motherboard: Fujitsu FJNB1C3
- Chipset: Mobile Intel 945PM Express Chipset
- Screen: 1440x900
- Hard Drive: ATA FUJITSU MHY2160B (160 GB)
For more detailed specs, see the report from HardInfo.
The Radeon X1400 isn't he fastest in the world but it is still a big jump over the integrated Intel graphics that seemed to be ubiquitous at the time. The advertised 256MB of "Hypermemory" is a bit misleading though. Hypermemory was ATI's technology for sharing system memory via the PCI Express bus. The actual onboard memory was less. Techpowerup says it has 128MB of DDR2 but I don't know if that amount varied. At any rate, it really wasn't good enough for anything but older games even at the time.
The screen at 1440x900 was also a step above the typical resolutions though there were higher available on other laptops. Both "recommended" configurations included the same screen so I don't think a higher resolution screen was available on this model.
I suppose that the same can be said for the CPU. The Core 2 T5600 at 1.83 GHz was not the absolute fastest available but it was still on the higher end, outpacing lesser Pentium and Celeron models especially. It would have also been faster and more power efficient that equivalent Turion models that would have been around at the time.
This laptop also has a few somewhat unique features mainly in the form of a control panel above the keyboard. There is a switch to turn wi-fi on and off as well as a volume button and a visual optimizer button. The visual optimizer button doesn't seem to do anything in Linux but it supposedly optimizes visual setting somehow. There is also a disc control that can be used to control DVD playback or be set to launch applications (web browser, e-mail, etc.) based on the mode (which is another button).
A Core 2 Duo can run pretty much any BOINC project and this one has been running Asteroids@home, Einstein@home, Milkyway@home, Rosetta@home, Universe@home and World Community Grid which covers all of my normal projects. You can also see statistics for this machine on FreeDC and BOINCStats.
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