| Article Index |
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| Fujitsu LifeBook N6460 Notebook Review |
| 2 - Style and Design |
| 3 - Running Gear |
| 4 - AV Features |
| 5 - Connectivity, Battery Life, Extras |
| 6 - Conclusion |
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AV Features:
The N6460 is designed to be, and marketed as the best Multimedia laptop that Fujitsu could produce, and everything about it tells me its place in this world is on top of your amplifier hooked into your 50” LCD or Plasma screen with a big Hi-Fi setup.
The reason I see it this way is because of what this thing can do in this field, the included Blu-Ray drive and very capable processing and video card power will play 1080p high definition movies flawlessly, as well as record your programs or general data onto huge capacity (25/50GB) Blu-Ray discs. While the Blu-Ray drive takes care of your movies, Windows Media Centre (which is included with Vista Ultimate) takes care of all your music and video files with ease.
The TV Tuner/Video capture card allows the N6460 to act as a digital set top box for free to air transmissions, and will even allow you to plug your PayTV system into it as well, either as a pass through to make the N6460 the main control centre of your system, or have the notebook act as a digital video recorder – there’s certainly enough hard drive space to cater for it. Again all of this is handled through Windows Media Centre, there’s no third party or proprietary software required (or even included at all).
An infra-red Media Centre remote control is included with the N6460, complete with a USB receiver which has a cord around 2m long so it doesn’t have to sit right next to the laptop. The receiver also has two secondary input jacks, with one secondary receiver included which only picks up certain inputs from the remote control, such as TV inputs. So you can attach this mini secondary receiver to the edge of your TV and tuck your notebook away out of sight, then just point the remote at the TV like you normally would, no confusion over the controls.
As for outputting the signals out to your AV equipment, it can either be handled by a single HDMI cable if your AV system supports it, otherwise you’ve got S-Video or VGA/RGB output for the video signal, as well as HD Audio output through either a 3.5mm stereo jack, or 3.5mm SPDIF optical jack. Dolby Digital and DTS formats are supported, but not decoded by the notebook itself in any way, it relies on you having the appropriate hardware to decode the signal via the optical cable. There’s enough output options that you should be able to hook it up to any A/V system, just so long as it’s not a hundred years old and inherited from your grandfather.
