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I've been buying Fujitsu laptop for all of my friends, relatives, and family for the last 10 years, and all the issues I've had is one dead fan and one shitty touchpad. Tough, reliable, no bloatware, "Made in Japan" sticker... why does nobody in the US talk about Fujitsu laptops?!

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I went to Fujitsu.com and found their laptops, but no way of buying directly. I googled fujitsu + store, buy, laptops; all returned results for european sellers and refurbished laptops from 10 years ago. They have a list of resellers, but all they carry are scanners and printers. They don't make it easy.

I went to Dell.com and the first thing I see is a giant banner that wants to sell me a laptop. When I click on Products, I get a page describing their main product lines and the all say SHOP. They want to sell me a laptop. HP wants to sell me a laptop. Lenovo wants to sell me a laptop. Fujitsu does not.

Seems to be "out of stock" at all sellers. Found just 1 seller in Italy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124852437225?

> why does nobody in the US talk about Fujitsu laptops?!

Probably little to no corporate availability? My past jobs have had Dell or Thinkpads as an option, none has ever had Fujitsu.

But now I am interested in it as a personal laptop. What would be the Fujitsu equivalent of a Thinkpad Carbon X1 or a Dell XPS 13?

I have a U939X and I'm very happy with it. Very light (<1kg), a lot of ports, even a Ethernet port. Nice keyboard, full sized cursor buttons, real PgUp, PgDown buttons. Pen and mate touch display. Does run linux without trouble.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Fujitsu-Lifebook-U939X-Review-...

Where did you buy it? I get exclusively old/reused machines when searching for Fujitsu laptops.

Hardware-wise, these do actually seem very compelling! Like a breath of sane design after a decade of worse and worse design.

I'm from switzerland and bought it from Dicitec (digitec.ch). They are not the cheapest, but they run forever. No bloatware, also my moms notebook does still run nice after 10 years. I just swaped the HDD to an SSD some years ago.

Guess Fujitsu Lifebook U9311 would be an alternative? Haven't bought any of these yet though, so I can't share personal impressions.

Fujitsu's PC division (FCCL) is now 51% acquired by Lenovo.

Even here in Japan, Fujitsu laptop can be bought everywhere but considered to mostly boring (except a few extreme lightweight models) but also not very rock solid. It's just a PC for average people and public sector. Enthusiasts buy ThinkPad, Let's note, Dell, HP, or Vaio.

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