Danny Weber
16:49 23-10-2025
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Fujitsu’s FMV Note A pairs a Ryzen 7, 16-inch WUXGA screen and Wi‑Fi 7 with a Blu‑ray drive, offering optical media support, USB4 and 11‑hour battery life
Fujitsu has chosen a different path with its FMV Note A laptop series, pairing powerful AMD Ryzen 7 processors with a component that has all but vanished from modern notebooks: a Blu-ray optical drive. In an era dominated by cloud services and streaming, the move looks unconventional, yet in Japan physical media still has its fans.
The flagship, the FMV Note A77-K3, comes with a 16-inch WUXGA display, a Ryzen 7 7735U, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD. Alongside the Blu-ray drive, the machine includes Wi‑Fi 7, USB4, HDMI, and even an Ethernet port—a rare sight on today’s ultrabooks. Despite the feature set, the laptop weighs under 2 kg and promises up to 11 hours of battery life.
Fujitsu stresses that Blu-ray here is not about nostalgia but a practical tool for people who maintain film collections or data archives on discs. In a market where optical media still has an audience, that argument carries weight.
The lineup also features models built on Intel’s 13th-generation processors, though those versions are equipped with DVD drives only. Japan remains one of the few places where optical discs continue to see demand, and FMV Note A leans into that reality with confidence.