EU Is the FujitsuLIFEBOOK A3511a good deal?

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FUJITSU Notebook LIFEBOOK A3511

The FUJITSU Notebook LIFEBOOK A3511 delivers the right balance of essential business features offering a slim design for daily computing tasks at home or in the office. Its 39.6 cm (15.6-inch) outdoor-friendly anti-glare FHD and HD display offers a comfortable viewing. The textured cover...

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Fujitsu Lifebook A3511 ab € 389,13 (2024) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich

✔ Preisvergleich für Fujitsu Lifebook A3511 ✔ Bewertungen ✔ Produktinfo ⇒ Display: 15.6", 1920x1080 (FHD), 16:9, 141ppi, 60Hz, non-glare (matt), 250cd/m² • CPU: Intel Core i3-1115… ✔ Notebooks ✔ Testberichte ✔ Günstig kaufen

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Hi everyone!
When I looking into my IT Distributor online Shop searching for an cheap Laptop for my Girlfriend who life abroad and will need one for Study I come across that one.
So what does everyone here think about the one: Fujitsu Lifebook A3511, Core i3-1115G4, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, DE, EDU ab € 407,98 (2023) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich
It seem to be have 1x 8GB Ram so it will be easy to put another one in the Slot. It have a legal Win Licence. She just use office nothing elese.
Thanks

 

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Certainly looks like one of the better offers with Wifi specified as AX201 and two actual trackpad buttons.

Make double sure the RAM is not soldered on. The display is not very bright, but OK in that price range. Personally I don't like numblocks on laptops.

 

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with Wifi specified as AX201

Its for study only and maybe watch Youtube in her Apartment. So the speed does not matter.

Make double sure the RAM is not soldered on.

Since the claim the have variable Config I guess it is not. End even so 8GB are for Office, Study way enough.

The display is not very bright, but OK in that price range.

Well as I say its better than a Smartphone one. It will be use only indoor.

Personally I don't like numblocks on laptops.

On a Gift it does not matter what you think?

 

[RTM]

This post is probably in the wrong forum...

It's obviously a cheap laptop, so it's hard to say that it's not an OK value.
Probably the biggest gotcha, that could potentially cause issues for your GF, is that the system has a keyboard with german layout (QWERTZ) - which is a bit of an abomination.

I would probably look at something like this from the seller on this auction listing (so you should not trust the price) (has danish keyboard layout though.... but at least that is qwerty...):

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[Rand__]

...has a keyboard with german layout (QWERTZ) - which is a bit of an abomination.

Hey

 

[RTM]

Hey

To be fair most European keyboard layouts are terrible, having to use alt gr to type certain characters is just plain a pain in the rear end.

From my perspective the one I hate the most is the nordic layout, where the danish, swedish / swedish, norwegian layouts are mangled together into one. A difference between norwegian and danish is that the æ and ø buttons are switched, but as the nordic layout has both, these two buttons both have æ and ø.

Thankfully you can of course just not look at the actual buttons...

 

[Rand__]

You get used to everything
The one real gripe I have is that nobody thought of switching , and . on the numpad so we actually could type full numbers with it too

 

[WANg]

FUJITSU Notebook LIFEBOOK A3511

The FUJITSU Notebook LIFEBOOK A3511 delivers the right balance of essential business features offering a slim design for daily computing tasks at home or in the office. Its 39.6 cm (15.6-inch) outdoor-friendly anti-glare FHD and HD display offers a comfortable viewing. The textured cover...

www.fujitsu.com

Fujitsu Lifebook A3511 ab € 389,13 (2024) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich

✔ Preisvergleich für Fujitsu Lifebook A3511 ✔ Bewertungen ✔ Produktinfo ⇒ Display: 15.6", 1920x1080 (FHD), 16:9, 141ppi, 60Hz, non-glare (matt), 250cd/m² • CPU: Intel Core i3-1115… ✔ Notebooks ✔ Testberichte ✔ Günstig kaufen

geizhals.at

Hi everyone!
When I looking into my IT Distributor online Shop searching for an cheap Laptop for my Girlfriend who life abroad and will need one for Study I come across that one.
So what does everyone here think about the one: Fujitsu Lifebook A3511, Core i3-1115G4, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, DE, EDU ab € 407,98 (2023) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich
It seem to be have 1x 8GB Ram so it will be easy to put another one in the Slot. It have a legal Win Licence. She just use office nothing elese.
Thanks

It's *meh*. Not that great, but not terrible either. You got 2 DDR4 SODIMM slots so in theory you can upgrade it to 64GB of RAM, and the machine internals looks reasonable - most workhorse machines have un-exciting screens and the low res/nits/color fidelity is to be expected. The fact that the battery is still somewhat user upgradeable is a plus. The one big negative is that Tiger Lake i3 U-series, which isn't really all that performant by today's standards - an equivalent Renoir generation Ryzen 3 U series will beat it by a signficant margin. That being said, if you are in Austria your options for good solid machines at a reasonable price is limited.

 

[rtech]

You could look at refurbished or used ebay-kleinzagen etc.

 

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used ebay-kleinzagen

Its for Germany Only and I got them for my GF for 350€ who is a damn good deal. Also a Ram for 25€ to have a total of 16GB.