Fujitsu Siemens has designed ESPRIMO E7935 to incorporate little bit of everything: system manageability, reliability, ergonomics factor, and security.  Built with environmental-friendly material this desktop PC is powered by state-of-the-art Intel technology and bundled with 40GB Serial ATA hard disk, 4GB RAM, and right hard ware components offering excellent audio and video output. The perfect hardware configuration earned the system Energy Star 4.0 certificate.

With Fujitsu Siemens ESPRIMO E5700 Desktop PC you can virtually build your own PC by picking up system specifications that suits your need.

This is indeed a good buy when you are looking for a new PC which is flexible and having loads of attractive features and at the same time quietly does all your job.

Design

Simple looking and straight finish make up the design of this small form factor PC. Place the 19-inch LCD monitor either vertically or horizontally to get the best visual clarity. The body colour of the base unit has black and silver polish. Whereas smooth greyish lustre wraps the entire monitor which stands upright with the help a stand resting on a round disc-like white plate. The sleek design of the monitor and CPU take skimpy desk space.

Compare to the design of the main unit the optical mouse that comes with the system looks little jazzy with turquoise colour base and silvery white body. The keyboard colour is milky white with piano-like keys having numeric key pads located at the left side of the keyboard and control keys right on top.

The front side of the CPU is divided into two panels. Floppy and CD-DVD drive, located on the upper portion of the panel which is black in colour and power button headphone and USB ports are located at the lower portion of the silvery panel.

On both sides of the CPU located two clip-like buttons for easy removal of the CPU lid. Shiny silvery Kensington Lock located at the upper left hand corner of the CPU allows you to lock the entire CPU case. The compact build, easy to access internal components make it a perfect office PC.

Features

Depending on your requirement you can tailor-made the configuration of ESPRIMO E Series PCs. With Fujitsu Siemens ESPRIMO E5700 Desktop Computer even with the basic configuration you can have bundle of features which perfectly blends with your need.

The Integrated Input / Output ports include 6 high-speed 2.0 USB ports, 1 serial port, 1 RJ45 LAN port, and 1 PS/2 mouse port, 1 PS/2 port for keyboard, 1 parallel port (ECP/EPP/SPP), and 1 floppy port for floppy disc.  The system comes with Microsoft Windows XP Professional preinstalled. The in-built security feature includes SecureIT software suite which nicely integrates with your IT environment. For remote access and administration use DeskView client software that comes with the system. This software suite gives you greater control on remote systems. You also have the option of adding enhanced flexibility to extension slots with FlexySlots options.

With EasyChange and EasyFix tools you can have greater productivity and less access to hard disk drive, optical drive.  Intel GMA 900 graphics card coupled with 128MB RAM offer excellent resolution and video quality.

You have the option of installing Optical drives (IDE) with 48-speed ATAPI CD ROM,  ATAPI DVD ROM with 16/48-speed, ATAPI CD-RW / DVD ROM with 48/24/48/16-speed,  DVD SuperMulti writer double layer support, and ATAPI DVD ROM slim with 8/24-speed. You also have the option of adding DVI extension adapter Graphic add-on cards.

Software list comprises of Drivers and Utility CD (DUCD), XONTROL (noise reduction for optical drives), F-Secure virus Scanner, SafeStandby, Recover Pro disaster recovery solution, and so on. Security feature includes integrated cabinet lock, SmartCard reader, and access protection via internal SmartCard reader.

Inside the PC

To open the system press clip-like buttons located at both sides of your CPU and pull it in the front. As you unlock the lid you will see 4 DIMM 240-pin expansion slots containing DDR2 SDRAM with 512MB installed size having dual channel support. You can expand the 512MB preinstalled RAM up to 4GB.

The system is powered by 64-bit Intel Pentium 4 processor running at 2.8 GHz. The processor is built upon Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, Hyper-Threading Technology, and Intel Execute Disable Bit Technology with Intel 915GV Express chipset. Its front bus side speed is 533/800 MHz.

Inside the storage unit dwells 40 GB Serial ATA hard drive and 3.5-inch 1.44 MB floppy drive. The optical storage drive type is DVD-ROM – IDE. The graphic configuration of the system is controlled by Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 processor with video memory compliant to Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0. The graphics memory is allocated to 128MB. The audio and video is kept in line with Integrated Audio Realtek ALC260.

The in-built networking options include Integrated 10/100/1000 Realtek RTL8110 Network Card with ‘Wake on LAN Header’ power configuration.  Fujitsu Siemens provides you with options for selecting your hardware settings when you are ordering your ESPRIMO E series desktop PC.

Performance

If you need a real time performance in your system it is a good idea to expand 512MB RAM to 4GB. If you go with the preinstalled RAM you are pretty much stuck with the system. Though Fujitsu Siemens ESPRIMO E5700 is not meant for doing any tough job but it can very well meet your expectation in terms of speed and performance if you can upgrade the RAM feature of this desktop PC.

Even with 4GB RAM you may not get massive power from the system when you are working on games or audio and video files. The system is not intended for those exercises. You may not have problems with all the games, but the ones which need stupendous speed and power may give you some hard time. Even the sound output is not fit for the game users. In other words this is not a good buy if you are a computer game enthusiast.

Indeed a good buy if you need a second PC for your home office and need to check your office e-mails, connect remotely, generate reports or do a bunch of day-to-day administrative job. The system performs reasonably well with Microsoft Office applications, Windows Media Player, and also when you are downloading files – the system multitasks perfectly. But that does not imply it is intended for MS Vista. Vista is not recommended at all.

However, it is difficult to beat the system in terms of its storage capacity. With 40GB hard drive you can store as much as you want. Downloading movies, audio, pictures and then storing them all in one place will not be a problem.

But check out if you plan to do some photo and video editing, the system may freeze up occasionally. But this again depends on the number of processes you are running at the same time. If you have barely few tasks running at the back all the time even photo and video-editing will not be a big problem.


Fujitsu Siemens ESPRIMO E5700 PC – Technical Specifications, Features

Manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens
Model Name ESPRIMO E5700
Display LCD
Display screen size 19-inch widescreen
Dimensions ( H x W x D) 100 x 340 x 380mm
Hard drive Capacity Options 40, 80, 160, 250GB
Optical drive CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo
Graphics hardware Intel GMA 900 graphics card up to128MB RAM
Memory Installed RAM: 512MB expandable up to 4GB DDR2 SDRAM with
4 x 240 Pin DIMMs memory slots having 533 MHz RAM Speeds
Processor Intel Pentium 4
Processor speed 2.8 GHz
Audio Realtek ALC260 – High Definition Audio
Operating system Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Mouse Optical mouse
Keyboard PS/2 style ESPRIMO keyboard
I/O ports 6 x Hi-Speed USB – 4 pin USB Type A ( 2 in front )/
1 x keyboard – generic – 6 pin mini-DIN (PS/2 style)/
1 x mouse – generic – 6 pin mini-DIN (PS/2 style
2 x serial – RS-232 – 9 pin D-Sub (DB-9)/
1 x parallel – IEEE 1284 (EPP/ECP) – 25 pin D-Sub (DB-25)/
1 x display / video – VGA – 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)/
1 x microphone – input – mini-phone mono 3.5 mm ( 1 in front )/
1 x audio – line-out – mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm/
1 x audio – line-in – mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
1 x headphones – output – mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm ( 1 in front )/
1 x network – Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T – RJ-45
Software Drivers & Utilities
InterVideo WinDVD 7
F-Secure
Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003
Microsoft Works Suite 2005
Warranty 1 Year

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