Fujitsu Launches New U772 and UH572 Ultrabooks

Fujitsu isn’t one of the companies we at AnandTech usually encounter in the realm of laptops; for whatever reason, their presence in the US market is decidedly limited. Nevertheless, they sent us news letting us know of their two latest Ultrabooks, the 13.3” LIFEBOOK UH572 and the 14” LIFEBOOK U772. The specs follow the familiar pattern, which we’ll cover in the table below, with a few exceptions.

The biggest differentiator is that Fujitsu’s LIFEBOOK offerings generally target the business sector more than the consumer market, and Fujitsu calls the U772 a “commercial Ultrabook”—the UH572 is more of a consumer model. That should mean build quality is generally higher, though we haven’t handled it so we can’t say for certain. You also get a fingerprint scanner as part of the package on the U772 and it has support for a port replicator. For now, the UH572 is only available in one configuration while the U772 is a user configurable (with a lower priced preconfigured model due in late June).

Considering both models come from the same OEM, some of the differences between the two offerings are quite odd. The UH572 is a 13.3”-screen chassis while the U772 is a 14”-screen chassis, and yet the dimensions of the U772 are only 0.15” wider while being 0.36” shallower and slightly thinner. The U772 also weighs 10% less than the UH572 when equipped with an SSD (or 9% less if both use HDD+SSD storage). Other differences include the OS, flash memory support, the wireless chipset, the lack of mini LAN and the fingerprint scanner on the UH572, and the memory setup (e.g. onboard vs. SO-DIMM).

Of course, there’s a reason for the above differences: the UH572 starts at $999 while the least expensive configuration of the U772 (the preconfigured i5-3317U model that won't be available until late June) starts at $1149. As noted above, the U772 is also targeting business users with additional features for that market. Images of the two Ultrabooks are in the gallery below, along with some schematics drawings (though some of the schematics on the UH572 appear incorrect as they mention elements not present on the actual laptop).