![]() ![]() This is the first time I’ve used an ExpressCard slot and I found the card doesn’t feel particularly secure when it’s been clicked into place. It’s attractive enough, but it’s not the most solidly built device. The card itself looks identical to the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS notebook, except in silver. Currently the box only seems available from Creative’s website and runs to a total of £30. This breakout unit is an essential requirement if you intend to use the card for any home theatre purposes so is a cost that will have to be factored in to the overall purchase, unlike the Audigy notebook, which came with a multi-connector cable. The optional small break-out box offers up to 7.1 via the standard mini-jack connectors. ![]() There’s a minijack connection that combines optical in, microphone and line, and also a headphone/optical out. All the effects and processing is done in software, the assumption being that any laptop with an ExpressCard slot is going to have a CPU capable of soaking up the host-based effects processing. Creative’s website make no bones about that fact that this is not card for gamers, although under ALchemy, it is possible. What you get instead is a basic audio converter based on an improved Audigy 4 model. ![]() Like the Xtreme Audio, it doesn’t actually contain a physical hardware X-Fi processor chip, despite the product name. The card is the first product from Creative to make use of the Express card slot form factor, so only works with newer notebooks it won’t fit into a PC Card slot. Creative’s Xtreme Audio Notebook is a reworked version of the audio company’s entry-level Xtreme Audio PCI card, only for notebooks, as its name suggests. ![]()
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