Fujitsu LifeBook N6460 Laptop Features

Fujitsu's new flagship desktop replacement laptop spoils graphics professionals with a stunning business environment and tons of storage. That's one crowded thing it has in common with its predecessor, the Energy Book N6420, but the newer N6460 is also a better entertainment unit. Battery career is shorter--it ran out of juice in less than 1 hour in our contemporary tests--and it yet leaves Bluetooth fans out in the cold. But all in all, the Fujitsu LifeBook N6460 is an improvement over the N6420.

The N6460 is bulky, measuring 2 inches thick and weighing almost 10 pounds when configured with a single hard drive. However, both creative professionals and discerning home users will welcome its rich design. A 370-nit 17-inch screen is standard, even in the replica $1499 configuration. The shade is twice as bright as most screens, with eloquent colors and easy-to-see details, making entertainment besides fun and close work more comfortable.

This engine doesn't make any attempt to insult your intelligence by being needlessly pretty or "personalized" (can something be personalized if it's bulk produced? Perhaps that's what Apple's engraving deal is all about). As a result, it's big, it's grey, it's right built, it's non offensive, nevertheless neither is it inspiring.

A full sized keyboard and separated numpad lets you be informed you're in desktop replacement land, other than the obvious 17-inch 1,440 x 900 resolution glossy screen which rightfully dominates the view.

Ports dot the left, true and rear, but wisely there is nothing on the front. The air vent at the rear means no hands will be cooked while using external mouses.

The LifeBook N6460 features a sturdy, quite mammoth gray case. Its dimensions is not surprising considering the amount of hardware inside of it. On the case's exterior are a ton of hook ups for every type of peripheral imaginable. It has five USB 2.0 ports, IEEE 1394, a dead-eye card reader that accepts Memory Stick, SD, and XD, a Computer Card slot, and an Categorical Card slot. The N6460 very features a Flare wire port, RCA audio in, composite, S-Video in and out, VGA and HDMI ports, that come in handy for a variety of video functions. It is also the first LifeBook to come with a Blu-ray disc drive. Blu-ray discs are capable of storing five times as much information as a popular DVD, so this feature is quite attractive.

The LifeBook N6460's screen is widescreen, sized at 17 inches with a resolution of 1440x900 pixels. The keyboard is full size with a separate numerical pad similar to those normally reserved for desktop keyboards. The N6460's keyboard too features a dedicated four means media press-stud that can be customized to plain any number of programs. Another fancy keyboard side is the Visual Optimizer button. This allows the computer to switch from PC mode to video mode in distribution to provide the best visual settings for both universal PC applications and video use.

Fujitsu's LifeBook N6460 uses an Intel PM965 chipset along with a Core 2 Duo processor. It includes an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 video card that provides DirectX 10 compatibility. The LifeBook N6460 is available with up to 500 gigabytes price of storage that is provided by two separate hard drives.

Annoyingly the speakers had a propensity to occasionally squeal due to exhausting drive movement when they weren't in use, and while there was a subwoofer on the bottom, it didn't seem to contribute remarkably to the overall sound. The speakers being placed at the front of the notebook was also a poor design decision, as the sound is muffled when you type.

The N6460 did well in the benchmarks though, busting out a respectable 3630 on 3DMark06, and an equally respectable 5170 in PCMark05.

For battery life things were a bit grim as they always are with desktop replacements, clocking in at a tiny 31 minutes and 36 seconds while playing back a DVD, all power saving options turned off and all settings pushed to maximum. While this is a particularly gruelling test, it shows that you won't want to obtain this contrivance away from the wall for further long. The space in which you can contain a battery is limited as well, meaning the possibility of upgrading to a juicier battery has been effectively nixed.

This is also a notebook you don't desire on your lap -- it gets far too hot far as well quickly. Interestingly Fujitsu's unique heat pads usually included on the bottom also aren't present -- perhaps the intent was that it would never be on your lap


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