Qosmio G30 coming to Japan in May, with HDMI output

Yes, it's another Japan-only shipping announcement from Toshiba (thanks a lot guys; what are we, chopped liver?). This time, the company is boasting that the Qosmio G30, the first HD DVD-equipped laptop, will hit the domestic market next month, for a retail price of about ¥400,000 (about $3,400). Specs are still the same as we've seen before, with the biggest addition being word that the laptop will support HDMI output. That fills in at least one missing piece of the G30 puzzle, namely, if you're going to hand over more than $3K for a laptop just because it has an HD DVD drive, you had darn well better be able to use that drive to pump out some HD onto a bigger screen than the laptop's 17-inch display. (Not that it matters to us, since we have absolutely no idea when we'll see one of these in the US.)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 10:45AM]

"(Not that it matters to us, since we have absolutely no idea when we'll see one of these in the US.)"

Probably not until we at least have some movies available that we could watch on it...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 11:49AM]

It looks like an 80's radio but other than that, isn't putting an HD drive on a laptop like selling a hydrogen fueled car? Ah well, at least it's able to show pictures of flowers in high def.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 11:54AM]

looking at the scale of the keyboard on that thing, you'd better be pumping those 'roids about now.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 12:04PM]

Besides obvious HD-DVD drive and HDMI port, what else does it offer to be worth over $3k? No wonder it's only available in the land where people think it's so cool to wear T-Shirts that says, "I am idiot", just because it's in english.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 12:18PM]

Yes it look 80's, I sould add, likr an 80's transformer, I still prefer to buy a powerful machine that do both OSX and Windows ;-) than this ugly thing. 4/10

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 1:04PM]

ROFL to #2, 3, 4 AND 5!!! haha, so much commentary! The article makes 17 inches sound bad for a laptop.

I am going to wait on the HD DVD deals till inexpensive writers come out. For CD's that took a long time, for DVD's it only took a couple of years. And for Beta-Ray, we'll see.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 2:23PM]

Beta-Ray! LOL. I love it :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2006 4:37PM]

#5-"80's transformer?"....yeah, i can relate to where you are comin from, man, it's like sooooooo black....and soooooo....angled.....i mean its like a 45 degree angle or smontine....and its like, sooooo black 'cept for that round thingee...which is like....sooooo silver

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 11th 2006 9:41AM]

No. 8 Do U realy know what a transformer is? explain to me...

[Information Central Posted Apr 11th 2006 1:50PM]

It's about friggin' time. All laptops should have HDMI outputs, DUH. They're smaller but deliver both video and audio and are easily convertible to DVI.