The laptop is equipped with a full-size keyboard, where only the functional keys are somewhat smaller than the rest. It is designed of light-gray plastic, which does look very stylish, but turns out not that practical at all, as it gets dirty too quickly. The keys marking, including the functional keys and the [Fn] keys are all painted dark-gray, which is not very convenient, because makes it harder to distinguish between them. Also, there is no numeric pad and no Windows keys, which we have already got used to on all our desktops.

Overall, the keyboard keys react very smoothly when pressed and leave a nice fixed feeling when you press and hold them down. The arrow keys are separated from the rest of the keys on the right side of the keyboard and are of slightly smaller size. On both sides of these keys there are PgUp/Home and PgDn/End keys, which to me personally are not very conveniently placed, because they get accidentally pressed most of the time you use the arrow keys. Otherwise, the keyboard proved to be very comfortable at work.

Also you can move the cursor of your Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S7010 BT with the TouchPad and TrackPoint (a tiny joystick located between the second and the third rows of keyboard keys), which replace the traditional mouse in this case. Moreover, these devices also feature two functional keys similar to the left and right mouse keys, and an additional scrolling key.

The screen at first seems very bright, with saturated color gamma. However, the first positive impression turned out to be not quite true. The level of black at the maximum brightness settings makes 3.21nit, and the level of white – 113nit, which makes the contrast level equal to 35:1. At the minimum brightness settings the level of black is 0.47nit, and the level of white – 18.0nit, making the contrast equal to 38:1, which is close to the parameters of inexpensive TN+Film matrices, which characteristic contrast value is around 50:1. The viewing angles for this monitor are quite average. The full pixel response time of this matrix is 30ms, where 20ms stand for the pixel rise and 10ms are spent for pixel fall.

So, we can state that this matrix features very high response time, not very high contrast and mediocre viewing angles. The brightness can be adjusted with the help of special functional keys, and the scale, which appears on the screen while the brightness adjustment key is pressed allows to determine the current settings and change them accordingly. The available range includes 8 different settings. Note thought that the brightness setting starts from the second grade right away. And in case you set it to the minimum, you will even be able to read with the room lights on, although it will not be too comfortable I should confess.