Fujitsu LIFEBOOK UH572 Pro Reviews

The Fujitsu Lifebook UH572 looks cool and is reasonably priced, but performance and other key features disappoint.

We praised the Fujitsu Lifebook's relatively good performance rates and the solid build quality of the pretty, red, slim, light and nevertheless rigid magnesium case. But competition never sleeps and mostly delivers stable and slim ultrabooks - but with the difference that they focus on a few important aspects apart from the case in the design and conception process. Battery runtime, keyboard, touchpad, fan management and thermal design are named as a few inadequately resolved points. It is also too bad that sufficiently bright screens, suitable for outdoor use, are standardly axed away from the blueprints in low-end notebooks and reserved for better paying customers (e.g. Asus' Zenbook UX32VD, Samsung's 900X3B). Fujitsu is going the right way with the matte screen, but content can only be read when the backlight defies the ambient light outdoors as well.

Had Fujitsu given the Fujitsu Lifebook UH572 ethernet support and a more robust audio system, I could forgive the unimpressive performance—after all, most consumers won't be running heavy-duty spreadsheets or doing serious video editing. But general users do care about decent multimedia and a good keyboard, and Fujitsu's attention to industrial design and components fell sadly short in those areas, making it difficult to heartily endorse the UH572.