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Page 1 of 6  It’s apparently designed to meet the needs of the avid multimedia enthusiast, but I believe the latest notebook available from Fujitsu, the LifeBook N6460, is designed to render the desktop PC obsolete once and for all.
It’s big, it’s fast and it’s expensive. The LifeBook N6460 sells online for around AU$4600, which makes it one of the most expensive notebooks on the market today, it’s even a few hundred dollars more than the biggest, fastest Mac Book Pro, which aren’t known for being cheap in the first place. So what do you get for your money? Well firstly, let’s have a look at the LifeBook’s specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 CPU (2.4GHz, 4MB Cache, 800MHz FSB) 4GB 667MHz DDR2 Memory (2 x 2GB Modules) + 1GB On-Board Intel Turbo Memory 500GB Total Hard Drive Storage Capacity (2 x 250GB 2.5” SATA-150 Drives) 17” SuperFine WXGA+ TFT (1440x900pixel resolution) ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 – 512MB HyperMemory GPU Built-In TV Tuner (PAL) with Video Capture via RCA and S-Video Inputs Remote Control with USB Receiver for Media Centre Control Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer - Matsushita BD-MLT UJ-210S Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Wireless-N (Draft) Wi-Fi Adapter Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (PCI-Express x1) 56k Modem 103-Key Keyboard with Separate Number Pad Fingerprint Reader
Realtek ALC262 HD Audio, Built-In Stereo Speakers with Subwoofer Other Ports: 3.5mm HD Audio In/Out, SPDIF Optical Output, PCMCIA Type I/II Slot, ExpressCard /34 /54 Slot, 5 x USB2.0, HDMI Video Out, RGB Video Out, S-Video Out, Flash Card Reader, Firewire Port 6-Cell Li-Ion 3200mAh Battery Microsoft Windows Vista Premium
Well, I think that’s everything. Fujitsu seem to have packed in as much as they can into this unit in an effort to give as many connectivity options as they can, and thanks to the size of the unit there’s no need for any dongles or breakout cables, even for the RCA cable inputs, which would normally be relegated to a single port and breakout cable with smaller notebooks. Fujitsu LifeBook N6460 Notebook  If Fujitsu were able to get away with a single hard drive I’m sure they would have, but to be able to give such enormous storage space (enormous for a notebook at least) with current technology, then dual drives are required. The drives are set up as two separate drives, so there’s no RAID configuration or drive spanning of any kind in use here. This is probably a blessing more than a curse, that even though we won’t get any type of speed increase, we also won’t lose all the data if one drive decides to keel over, and the drives can be upgraded in the future very easily. You just have to remember which drive your music is on, and which one has your movies.
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