Creative releases notebook soundcard

Darragh O'Toole, European Senior Brand Manager with Creative Labs said that the new card was for those who wanted to get decent sound out of their notebooks, particularly when they watch films.

The Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook card is based around Creative X-Fi technology which is supposed to fix compressed soundtracks. The card also has X-Fi CMSS-3D, which expands stereo music and movie sound tracks into surround sound even over headphones.

The card has line level and digital optical inputs/outputs as well as microphone and headphone jacks, plus the option to connect 5.1 or 7.1 surround speakers via the optional docking module. It is being flogged for about $70.

Can't be worse than the sound that a bloke was getting out of his laptop on last night's flight. It sounded like two midgets in tin amour wrestling. µ