FUJITSU COMPUTER SYSTEMS CES 2008 REVIEW AND HIGHLIGHTS

Thanks to those of you who came to visit us at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008. For those who did not make it we hope this review will help you understand the key announcements and the three main initiatives that we made at this year’s CES.

SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS

Innovative Products

We announced a number of new products at CES, and the LifeBook U810 with wireless WAN was one of the finalists in the popular Last Gadget Standing competition, which was a great achievement. You can read the related press releases or you can configure and buy these products. See below for more details and reviews of many of the products.

 

Concept Products

At the Digital Experience event and in the main hall at CES we showed off some concept products. We received a number of great reviews of these products, and there was a lot of interest in our Fabric PC concept. (Click to read some of the reviews.)

• Fujitsu's Fabric PC and Three Other Forward-Looking Concepts
  Gizmodo January 6, 2008


• CES 2008 - Fujitsu Concept Designs
  Mahalo - By Veronica Belmont January 6, 2008


• Fujitsu intros a handful of concept designs at CES 2008
  Engadget By Joshua Topolsky January 6, 2008

A star of the show was our enon Service robot. This was the first time we had shown enon outside of Japan and he generated a great deal of interest from people looking to understand more about how robots may be able to help us.

 

Environmental Program

We presented a set of our environmental initiatives at CES, including the following:

• The biggest draw was our bio-plastic-based notebook. It is made from a corn-derived plastic and helps reduce CO2 emissions in the production process. Read all about it.
  
  
  • Fujitsu Unveils Laptop Made of Corn
    Yahoo Tech By Chris Null, January 8, 2008
  • Fujitsu's "Corn" PC
    CNET By Erica Ogg January 8, 2008
  • CES: Are we ready for a PC made partially from corn?
    Tech Chronicles By Ryan Kim January 9, 2008
  • The corntop lives: Fujitsu showing off mostly-biodegradable notebook
    Engadget By Evan Blass January 10, 2008
  • Fujitsu shows off corn-based laptop casing
    Geek.com By Matthew January 10, 2008
  • Corn-Based Laptop Housing Can Biodegrade
    Boing Boing By Joel Johnson January 10, 2008
  • Fujitsu Showcases Laptops Made From Corn
    Laptop Logic January 10, 2008
    
    
• Information on our Environmental Protection program.
  
  
• Our membership in the Climate Savers initiative, by which we asked CES attendees to pledge to reduce to their power consumptions
  
  

SHOW AND PRODUCT DETAILS

Innovative Products
We presented our latest mobile products at CES and highlighted our extensive range of convertible notebooks. Click to configure and buy Fujitsu notebooks.

• Press Release:
  • LifeBook U810 with WWAN
  • New notebooks powered by the 45nm Core(TM) 2 Duo Mobile Processors
  • New LifeBook P8010 notebook
    
    
• PC World “Intel Unveils First Penryn Mobile Processors"
  Narasu Rebbapragada writes about the release of the Fujitsu Penryn notebooks including the LifeBook A6120, LifeBook E8410, and the LifeBook N6470.
  
  
• Wired: “CES 2008: Hands-On with the Fujitsu U810 WWAN Edition,”
  Rob Beschizza writes about the wireless WWAN upgrade to the U810 mini-notebook giving it a score of 8 out of 10.
  
  
• Yahoo! Tech: “Fujitsu Upgrades U810 Mini-Tablet with Wireless Broadband,”
  Christopher Null reviews the LifeBook U810 mini-notebook noting the upgrade to built-in wireless WAN and how he “dreamed of it” from his first review.
  
  
• Last Gadget Standing: The LifeBook U810 with wireless WAN was a finalist in the Last Gadget Standing competition.

Concept Products
The Fujitsu design division showed off some new concept products at CES. We showed notebook products, client interface devices, and the enon Service Robot.

• Engadget video review of Digital Experience
  
  
• Fujitsu’s Fabric PC and Three Other Forward-Looking Concepts
  Gizmodo January 6, 2008
  
  
• enon Service Robot home page

Environmental Products
Click here to see more about the Fujitsu Computer Systems Environmental Initiatives.

Following are links to some third-party reviews of our environmental programs and products

• John Dvorak article on bio-plastic PC
  
  
  
• CNET News: "Fujitsu’s "Corn" PC"
  Erica Ogg blogs on the innovations of the Corn PC, quoting R. McCormack.
  
  
• The Wall Street Journal: “Tech Aims to Green Up Its Act,” Jim Carlton includes the Fujitsu Corn PC in a round up of green tech products at CES 2008.

Fujitsu is proud to announce the following mobile products will offer the new 45nm Hi-k Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processors.