Toshiba X 300 touts hi-def laptop trio

Toshiba has dipped its toes into the mobile HD market, with the launch of three Qosmio laptops equipped with the manufacturer’s dedicated HD content processor.

Toshiba's Qosmio X300: comes with a 17in screen and 'all the latest technology'

Although the manufacturer’s not yet willing to release the full specifications of each machine, it’s at least positioned the gaming -oriented X300 as the trio’s daddy.

The machine has an LCD cover decorated with a “Fire Shark” theme, which makes it look as though flames have gripped the machine. This red theme continues around the keyboard, with red LED illumination used to highlight the multimedia bar, touchpad and integrated tweeter speakers.

A Toshiba spokeswomen told Register Hardware that the X300 is equipped “with all the latest technology,” but so far the firm’s only been willing to state that this includes an Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme CPU, twin hard drives and Nvidia GDDR3 SLI graphics.

The G50 is Toshiba’s mid-range Qosmio machine, whilst the F50 is its entry-level model. Both machines come with a 640GB hard drive and, although the basic amount of memory isn’t stated, we know each has a “system memory expandable up to 8GB”.

One thing’s for sure though, all three will be equipped with Toshiba’s Quad Core HD processor - aka the SpursEngine. The processor’s designed to take the pressure off the main CPU by handling all HD content. Just not on batteries...

None of the machines come equipped with a Blu-ray drive – did you really expect they would be? – all standard-definition upscaling is done by the Quad Core HD. Downloaded HD content is handled by the chip too.

Each machine also has a webcam built into the inner of the lid, which allows films to be controlled with gestures, like a flick of your finger, instead of fumbling around for a remote.

Official prices for either three of the Qosmio laptops haven’t been given out yet, but the F50 and G50 will go on sale in UK in Q3.

General

Display 17" widescreen (1440x900)
Dimensions 399 x 288 x 30/40 mm (15.7 x 11.3 x 1.2/1.6 inches)
Weight 3.6 Kg (7.9 lb)
OS Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Mainboard Chipset Mobile Intel PM45 Express
Platform Intel Centrino 2
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 - 2,533 GHz - 6 MB - FSB 1066 MHz
Memory 4096 MB DDR3 SDRAM 1066 MHz
Main Storage 250 GB 5400 RPM
Graphic Card NVidia GeForce 9800M GTX 1024 MB
Optical Drive CD CD-R / CD-RW
DVD DVD±RW (±R DL)

Interfaces USB 4
FireWire 400 1
eSATA Yes
VGA Yes
HDMI Yes
S-Video Out Yes
RJ11 Yes
RJ45 Yes
ExpressCard 1 x ExpressCard/54

Acer Aspire 6930G Review and Specs

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Toshiba Portege M800, For Carrier Woman

SURVEY last conducted InfoKomputer magazine shows 90% of the readers are men. Therefore, this article is intended to more than 10% of womanhood, or that both men and interested partner to buy a new notebook.

Not anything. Parties that we review this time is the Toshiba Portege M300 notebook covered the pink of the "girl's." The same as the version Satellite M300 that we months ago, the notebook chassis is made through technology Fusion Finish to generate the surface of the glossy. So is pink, too glossy; goodness how you happiness?

The same as the previous generation, this is the Portege M300 notebook is for your mobile. This can be seen from the size of the screen size of 13.3 "and weight about 2 kg; comfortable enough to take a trip. However, as we recently accustomed to 13.3 notebook "the thin (such as the Macbook Air or Lenovo X300), the M300 thickness reached 4 cm feels too thick.

Perhaps because they intended to travel a lot, this notebook is equipped with facilities fingerprint scanner for security reasons. 150GB hard drive is also equipped with technology that shakes reducer in the data remains protected when the notebook is dropped. Other facilities available are Wi-Fi Draft-N, Bluetooth, 1.3 MP webcam, and DVD Multi format.

Behind the feminine color, Portege M300 components that possess strong enough. Series PPM80L-02Y013 that our test is, for example, given the processor Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 (2.38 GHz), which assisted DDR2-800 memory capacity of 1GB. Unfortunately graphic functions carried onboard Intel X3100 chip, so that less than maximum application to run gaming heavyweight. Even if the Macbook Air that use processors weaker, its 3D performance is still behind (see table of the test results).

At the top of the keyboard, notebook worth U.S. $ 1,399 to provide this control panel for multimedia. However, instead of using a key, the control panel is a touch sensor equipped with lights. This makes the operation of the panel is not disrupted even though we operate it in the darkness.

When we try to play the movie, one of the advantages we note is the quality of the speakers above the average. Using the speaker harman / kardon, his voice sounded clear and crispy, although a minimal bass boom. Screen also good quality, although the viewing angle, it looks rather limited.
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