Free Notebook Every 3 years for ever...

1carminestocky

I'm suspecting they will also (like mobile re-sellers giving cashback on redemption) be hoping that many people will forget to claim their new notebook. If they wasn't relying on this aspect they would just send you one every 3 years...wouldn't they?

MyUserNamesTaken

Dustangle wrote: »

Fujitsu Siemens Computers won't be around for the rest of our lives, anyway.

I just checked - it was only set up nine years ago. How long before it goes bust or gets bought up by someone else?

I wouldn't be so worried about that. I bought a Fujitsu PC 9 years ago, before Siemens got involved with them. Both Fujitsu and Siemens are well-respected and well-known companies. Siemens and Fujitsu formed a joint venture to create Fujitsu Siemens - they won't be going bust any time soon.

http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/about/index.html

http://www.siemens.co.uk/en/about_us/index.htm


Today's news:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/239607,fujitsu-acquires-siemens-stake-in-computing-joint-venture.html

Tokyo - Japanese electronics concern Fujitsu is to take over full control of the Fujitsu Siemens Computers joint venture, according to Japanese media reports on Saturday. Fujitsu and Munich-based Siemens AG had owned 50 per cent each of the computing firm, which was established in 1999. Fujitsu is to make Siemens' share of the firm its own subsidiary, according to well-informed sources speaking to the Japanese business paper Nikkei. The agreement is expected to be formally announced early next week, with the price paid by Fujitsu anticipated to be around 500 million euros (634.9 million dollars), although pension obligations may push the price higher, the paper said. Fujitsu Siemens Computers was founded to integrate the firms' personal computer and server businesses in Europe. The joint-venture contract was due to run out next year. Fujitsu Siemens, with some 10,000 employees as of April 2008, earned 105 million euros in profits before tax in the last financial year, on revenues of 6.6 billion euros. Fujitsu is expected to focus its business following the acquisition on server services to companies rather than personal computers, according to the Japanese news agency, Kyodo.

poet123

So it is only the laptops called Lifebook E,...etc? I cant find a price for the cheapest one,does anyone know what price they start at?thinking of getting my 12 year old a laptop for xmas and so he wont need a high spec/expnsive one as a starter kit.

lju

Just had a quick look and cheapest seems to be around 1k

Dustangle

MyUserNamesTaken wrote: »

Both Fujitsu and Siemens are well-respected and well-known companies.

Well known, yes. Well respected - no. They're evil warmongering capitalists with a Nazi past mired in the blood of our ancestors.

Preceding World War II Siemens was involved in the secret rearmament of Germany. During the Second World War, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the "Nazification" of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around notorious extermination camps such as Auschwitz and used slave labor from concentration camps to build electric switches for military uses. In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the camp, supplying the electricity to the camp.

Fujitsu was established on June 20, 1935 under the name Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō (Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing), a spinoff of the Fuji Electric Company, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company and German conglomerate Siemens founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu - the heart of economic and industrial activity within the Empire of Japan - Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.

MyUserNamesTaken wrote: »

Siemens and Fujitsu formed a joint venture to create Fujitsu Siemens - they won't be going bust any time soon.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding) BV is a completely different entity from Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG. It is a limited company, which means that the owners are not liable beyond the limit of their shareholding for the liabilities of the company. They could easily wind it up tomorrow and would not be liable to continue such a deal. My point is that it is unlikely that the joint venture will continue for the length of many customers' lifetimes.

MyUserNamesTaken

Dustangle wrote: »

Well known, yes. Well respected - no. They're evil warmongering capitalists with a Nazi past mired in the blood of our ancestors.

Preceding World War II Siemens was involved in the secret rearmament of Germany. During the Second World War, Siemens supported the Hitler regime, contributed to the war effort and participated in the "Nazification" of the economy. Siemens had many factories in and around notorious extermination camps such as Auschwitz and used slave labor from concentration camps to build electric switches for military uses. In one example, almost 100,000 men and women from Auschwitz worked in a Siemens factory inside the camp, supplying the electricity to the camp.

Fujitsu was established on June 20, 1935 under the name Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō (Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing), a spinoff of the Fuji Electric Company, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company and German conglomerate Siemens founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu - the heart of economic and industrial activity within the Empire of Japan - Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.


Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding) BV is a completely different entity from Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG. It is a limited company, which means that the owners are not liable beyond the limit of their shareholding for the liabilities of the company. They could easily wind it up tomorrow and would not be liable to continue such a deal. My point is that it is unlikely that the joint venture will continue for the length of many customers' lifetimes.

I don't see why you're going on about WW2, etc., as the people who run both companies now didn't actually have anything to do with what went on 60 years ago (most of them weren't even born then, or were kids!). Yes, both companies are well-respected now. You do realise that calling Fujitsu and Siemens "evil warmongering..." is defamation, don't you? Got any evidence of either company being involved in "evil warmongering" in the last 40 years or so?

Did you actually read the news snippet I posted? At present, Siemens and Fujitsu own 50% each of FS. Fujitsu is taking the whole thing over. So, no worries there. Stop scaremongering.

I think the bolded bit of your quote shows us why you're so biased against FS.

Waxy_Bean

Under this programme, should you purchase any notebook from our LIFEBOOK range you will be eligible to receive a brand new LIFEBOOK of like for like specifications every 3 years for the rest of your LIFE!

I like my laptops to improve in spec after 3 years!

PeteHerts

I used to work for Fujitsu Services and they started a scheme about 4 years ago in conjunction with the Government whereby you bought a PC/laptop half price, paid over 3 years interest free and got 3 years warranty and this was to do with the Government wanting every home to have a PC so maybe this has something to do with that

stphnstevey

Waxy_Bean wrote: »

I like my laptops to improve in spec after 3 years!

If the spec is the same every 3 years, then gradually you will be DOWN grading!

They wouldn't be able to give the same spec after a while, as they wouldn't make them anymore, so they would have to up the spec?

mike_the_bike_2

Looked good until has been pointed out its their high end models only...I mean how many of us seriously need a laptop costing over a grand for what we do on pc's?