‘Fujitsu’ announced the introduction of its new laptop that is expected to take precedence over one of the rules of notebook physics. This new laptop would be featuring a bigger screen than a similar predecessor model, but it is much lighter.
This technological shift and has been made possible for an important reason that it is basically based on a fundamental change in screen technology from fluorescent-backlit to LED-backlit.
Paul Moore, Senior Director of mobile product marketing for ‘Fujitsu’ did disclose in a ‘ray-statement’ to David De Jean for his story headlined “The Future Of Mobile Tech: Next Year’s Notebooks Will Be Worth Waiting For”, “ The future, it turns out, is now”. Paul Moore was speaking in generalized way about the display technology in the “LifeBook S6510” that ‘Fujitsu’ announced recently.
“A 14-inch widescreen LED display on a laptop that weighs four pounds. That’s with the optical drive. Take out the optical drive and it goes down to 3.7 pounds” said Paul Moore in his statement.
The 14-inch LED screen fits in the same space that would have been required by a 13.3-inch LCD screen. The difference, Moore informed in a telephonic conversation, is that the LED display panel doesn’t require an inverter, a transformer that steps up the notebook’s battery power to drive a high-voltage circuit that powers the screen’s backlighting. LED backlighting runs on unmodified battery voltage, so the inverter and the space it takes around the display can be used for something else, like a bigger display.
Deleting the requirement of an inverter not only saves space but also makes the display more reliable. Having an inverter for a laptop is one of the big problems in itself. On the contrary a laptop without an inverter also saves weight and of course it saves power too. Technical specifications of the model ‘S6510’say it will run for 4-1/2 hours on its standard six-cell battery, or more than 6 hours with the optical drive removed from the modular bay and replaced with a second battery.
“With this considerable weight savings of the LED screen and new 9.5-mm thin optical drive, the $1,529 S6510 weighs about a pound less than the 13.3-inch version”, said Paul Moore.
David DeJean says, “That’s an impressive diet for any notebook, and a demonstration of the changes still coming in notebook technology”.