There’s probably three

There's probably three

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There's probably three key aspects of the ETU4′s performance which you need to know about: Its touchscreen, its screen (yes, these are different things) and its battery life. Then there's a few minor aspects of the laptop which we'd also like to discuss.

The first, and most important aspect of the ETU4′s performance relates to its hero feature, Windows 8 and its touchscreen. In this aspect, we have to give the laptop a huge tick mark. Windows 8 performs very, very well on this baby. The touchscreen is very responsive and highly satisfying to use. If you can click it with a mouse, you can touch it on the screen, and we really enjoyed using features such as pinch to zoom on the touchscreen that simply aren't available in Windows 7 and on computers without touchscreens.

The ETU4′s touchscreen doesn't feel like an add-on, although that's fundamentally what it is; it suddenly feels like something that should have been there all along, and using it has changed our expectations about all screens forever. All screens — computer screens, TV screens, laptop screens, even dynamic photo displays; after using the ETU4 we just felt like everything should be able to be touched and manipulated. It's a changed world that we're living in with Windows 8, and the ETU represents a good implementation of Microsoft's touchscreen vision.

The bad news is that the quality of the ETU4′s actual screen is not fantastic. We watched a few episodes of some of our favourite television shows on this model, and while it did the job, we have to say the colours weren't fantastic and we didn't like looking at the screen itself. The same can be said of just browsing the desktop and using Windows 8 on the ETU4; the screen looks faded and old-school. We just weren't huge fans of it. Many people won't notice these issues as they're not discerning technology users, but we think it's safe to say that even amongst those who aren't technophiles, few would walk away with a hugely positive impression of the ETU4′s display.

In general we were pretty impressed with the ETU4′s battery such as Fujitsu ESPRIMO Mobile U9200 Battery, Fujitsu ESPRIMO Mobile D9500 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP222 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook P3110 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP42 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook C2010 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook C7661 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP260 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook MH330 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP232 Battery, Fujitsu FPCBP231 Battery, Fujitsu LifeBook MH380 Battery life. We set a HD television show episode on repeat on the machine after it was fully charged, and it took most of the day for it to run out of juice. Even when it did die, it went into deep hibernation mode — we were able to revive it quickly by plugging it into the mains. HP says the ETU4 should get a little over seven hours of life, and we don't have any reason to doubt that at this point.

In most other aspects of the ETU4′s performance, it felt like this was quite a mediocre laptop in general. It was heavy and bulky to carry around, the sound quality through its speakers — despite the Beats Audio sticker — was tinny and honestly, pretty bad, and its keyboard, while more than serviceable, wasn't among the best we have used. The trackpad was similarly relatively responsive but not ideal, and it was quite difficult to press down on the bottom left-hand corner of the trackpad for a concrete physical button press.