Introducing the Toshiba Qosmio X775
Toshiba's flagship Qosmio line of notebooks have been, for the longest time, big, flashy, red and black beasts. These juggernauts sported 18" screens with high-end graphics and processing power, but at the same time they were...well, probably not the most attractive notebooks on the market. But Toshiba's success with the 13" Portege has led to some design changes, and the Qosmio has gone under the knife. It's still a substantial desktop replacement notebook, but it's shed a couple pounds, an inch off of the display, and some of the gloss. Is Toshiba's major redesign a success?
Toshiba's flagship Qosmio line of notebooks have been, for the longest time, big, flashy, red and black beasts. These juggernauts sported 18" screens with high-end graphics and processing power, but at the same time they were...well, probably not the most attractive notebooks on the market. But Toshiba's success with the 13" Portege has led to some design changes, and the Qosmio has gone under the knife. It's still a substantial desktop replacement notebook, but it's shed a couple pounds, an inch off of the display, and some of the gloss. Is Toshiba's major redesign a success?
Toshiba's Qosmio line has tended to aim pretty high and unfortunately then as now they have some stiff competition. While the new Qosmios are priced to move and Sandy Bridge gaming notebooks aren't necessarily out in force at low prices, Toshiba still has to contend with ASUS's G74 refresh of our personal favorite budget gaming machine, the G73. ASUS kept the cooling system and fixed the keyboard, and we should have our review posted soon. For now, though, Toshiba has specced the new Qosmios across a number of price points, starting at an MSRP of $1,199 and going all the way up to a 3D-enabled model for $1,899.
Qosmio X775-Q7272 Laptop Specifications
Performance
Processor*
Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM processor
Operating System*
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)*
Graphics Engine*
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M w/NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology
Graphics Memory*
1.5GB GDDR5 discrete graphics memory
Memory and Storage
Memory*
6GB DDR3 1333MHz memory
Hard Drive*
1.0TB: 500GB (7200rpm, Serial ATA) + 500GB (7200rpm, Serial ATA)
Optical Drive*
Blu-ray Disc™ ROM and DVD SuperMulti drive (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash®*
Optical Drives*
Blu-ray Disc™ ROM and DVD SuperMulti drive with Labelflash® supporting 12 formats*
Audio and Video
Display Size
17.3" widescreen
Display Type*
HD+ TruBrite® LED Backlit display
Display Resolution
16:9 aspect ratio, 1600x900, Supports 720p content
Audio
Microphone input port with Sleep and Music, Headphone jack (stereo), Built-in microphone, harman/kardon® stereo speakers
Communication
Webcam
Webcam and microphone built into LCD bezel
Wireless LAN*
Wi-Fi® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n)
Bluetooth
Bluetooth® V3.0 + HS
Modem*
No Modem port
LAN
10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN
Power
AC Adapter
180W (19V x 9.5A) Auto-sensing,100-240V AC Adapter
Battery
Li-Ion (47Wh, 8-Cell)
Battery Life*
Up to 4.18 hours
Expansion
PC Express Slot
No PC Express Slot
SmartCard Reader
No SmartCard Reader slot
Media
Memory Card Reader
USB Ports*
1-USB (3.0) port with USB Sleep and Charge*, 3-USB (2.0)
HDMI
HDMI® output port
Software, Support and Security
Security and Protection
HDD Recovery, Multiple-Level Password Utilities, Password Security, TOSHIBA Supervisor Password Utility, Security Cable Lock Slot
Software*
Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Reduced functionality Word® and Excel® with advertising)*, Corel® Label@Once, TOSHIBA Hard Drive Impact Sensor (3D sensor)*, TOSHIBA Face Recognition*, TOSHIBA Resolution+® Upconvert Plug-in for Media Player, TOSHIBA Bulletin Board™, TOSHIBA Service Station, Norton Internet Security™ 2011 (30-day trial), TOSHIBA Recovery Disk Creator, TOSHIBA Web Camera Application, TOSHIBA BookPlace™, TOSHIBA Media Controller, TOSHIBA Disc Creator, Microsoft® Windows Media Player 12, TOSHIBA ReelTime™, TOSHIBA eco Utility™, Google® Chrome, Toshiba Online Backup (30-day trial subscription), WildTangent® Game Console, TOSHIBA HDD Protection, TOSHIBA App Place, Microsoft® Silverlight™ , TOSHIBA HDD/SSD Alert, TOSHIBA PC Health Monitor, Waves MaxxAudio® 3, Microsoft® Windows Live Essentials including Photo Gallery, Messenger, Mail, Writer and Movie Maker., Hard disc (HDD) recovery
Standards
RoHS Compliant*, Energy Star Qualified, EPEAT™ Gold
Standard Limited Warranty*
1-Yr Parts and Labor, 1-Year Battery
Physical Description
Inputs and Controls
Volume Control (Up & Down), touch pad pointing device with multi touch control, Mute button, CD/DVD Buttons (Play/Pause, Stop, Prev Track, Next Track), Premium Raised Tile LED backlit Keyboard with 10-Keypad (black), Media button, TOSHIBA eco utility™ (Energy-saving mode)
Weight*
Starting at 6.6 lbs.
Color
Fusion® X2 Finish in Red Horizon
Most of what we're seeing here we've become fairly accustomed to. Intel's Core i7-2630QM is practically ubiquitous right now, offering the most inexpensive mobile quad-core solution Intel's ever had, and Toshiba backs it up in this configuration with 6GB of DDR3; the 3D Qosmio, their $1,899 flagship model, bumps this to 8GB. The i7 and 6GB of DDR3 are joined by Intel's HM65 chipset, which doesn't support RAID.
The new blood here is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M, which we haven't had a chance to really play with yet. This chip offers a very healthy bump in performance from the 460M; while it retains the 192 CUDA cores and 192-bit memory bus connected to GDDR5, the clock has gone up 100MHz to 775MHz (and correspondingly brought the shader clocks up to 1550MHz). The GDDR5 remains clocked at an effective 2.5GHz. Since i7-2630QM-equipped gaming notebooks are fairly common, we should be able to provide a fairly direct apples-to-apples comparison to see how much that clock bump affects the 560M's performance; given the specs, it should be roughly as powerful as a desktop GTS 450.
As for the rest of the Qosmio, it's fairly business as usual, with USB 3.0 and 2.0 support, a card reader, gigabit Ethernet, wireless-n, and Bluetooth. Toshiba opts to equip this model with a pair of 500GB 7200RPM hard drives; models further up the chain incorporate Seagate's Momentus XT hybrid drive as the system drive. There's a welcome Blu-ray reader, too, but your spirits will be dampened somewhat to know the screen is the exact same panel we just reviewed in our $700 Llano notebook: a 17.3", 1600x900 panel by Samsung. The only way to get 1080p in a Qosmio now is to buy the 3D Vision enabled $1,899 model.
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