http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
If you guys dont like whats posted then read some where else. Stop crying like little girly men. "Boo-hoo they didnt post what I wanted to read...wahh"

If you have other sites to get the news from then go there also. Not even the local news channel can post every single bit of news that happens around the world. ]]>Jun 14th 2008 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/You know those times when someone completely misses the point of something and makes a total fool of themself?

this is one of those times.

And you're one of those people.]]>Jun 15th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
Wait... does that mean that you took the words right out of my fingers? Or maybe keyboard?]]>Jun 14th 2008 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
HP, Sony, Dell, all of them faired fine. I did have one Satellite thats still kicking despite the occassional overheating reboot -guess its system fan isn't so critical. But 4 out of 4 Qosimios I've had all bit the dust the first year. Its so unfortunate that I purchased the extended warranty which Toshitty processes through a third party company (ServiceNET). It cause more heartache and wasted hours then its worth.

Bottom line, JUST SAY NO! Go with anything, ANYTHING instead of a Qosimio!!!
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To add to what you have said, I've had this old laptop running as a music server (headless, the monitor died). I've noticed that now that it's summer it's started crashing. I'm guessing it can't take the heat. It's only crashed when it's been hot. Before it was running rock solid on Debian for days on end.]]>Jun 14th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
Skip Toshiba and buy something else!]]>Jun 14th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
Whether it's Nintendo, Apple, Microsoft, or in this case, Toshiba, it's just been bothering me that instead of better features, stability, and usability...We're finger pinching on a big ass table (or on a small ass phone), waving a remote in front of our big ass televisions, or in this case, making crazy ass gestures in front of this ass laptop.

What's next? A new port of Linux that uses a web camera to interpret different moves from the Macarena as console commands?]]>Jun 14th 2008 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
Also, if they are going to make the Macarena, might as well do the Hare Hare Yukai version. You know, for otakus such as myself.]]>Jun 14th 2008 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
I do like pushing the envelope on touch screens and there's some interesting (and useful) applications that could be developed. I like Johny Chung Lee's wiimote board, for instance.

In this case, I don't get the gestures thing... this looks even less useful than the voice recognition on my old mid 90's powermac.]]>Jun 14th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
That G55 looks too good looking to be a Toshiba though.]]>Jun 14th 2008 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
Does that even count as a laptop? You can slay an elephant with that thing.]]>Jun 14th 2008 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/at least put full HD on that thing.
this is what trhey need to change.....
1-Full HD
2-BD+RW
3-minus hand guestures
4-thinner
5-im gonna asume the HDD is 250 GB, so im gonna say up it to 320 GB
6-TV tuner
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they could probably stuff three hard drives into that badboy...lol]]>Jun 16th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/11/camspace-creates-a-wii-for-everyone-minus-the-nintendo-console/]]>Jun 14th 2008 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
Thanks again for the link, delivering news on what Engadget fails to mention due to an intrinsic Apple bias.

Nice to see Apple getting stomped by everyone and their cousins in the Laptop sector.

Only 4.6% of the laptop market, pathetic. :D]]>Jun 14th 2008 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/If you guys dont like whats posted then read some where else. Stop crying like little girly men. "Boo-hoo they didnt post what I wanted to read...wahh"

If you have other sites to get the news from then go there also. Not even the local news channel can post every single bit of news that happens around the world. ]]>Jun 14th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/If your strong enough to lugging a 18inch laptop all around then you might as well get yourself one of those portable lanparty pc/bookbags..

That thing is a joke and looks like that portable dell xps system thats a cross breed between a pc and laptop.

]]>Jun 14th 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 14th 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 15th 2008 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Jun 15th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/
But with that said, I wonder what command "the finger" brings up?]]>Jun 15th 2008 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/14/toshiba-qosmio-g55-features-spursengine-visual-gesture-controls/Perhaps if you are a type that waves his hands around a lot it might be for you though, so there could be a market for it, although if you are such an animated person the system would get confused a lot one assumes.

Might be handy in some rare situations for remote operating via videolink at times when you can't use a keyboard, perhaps on the rim of a volcano or something, or as a gimmick to wave a special secret gesture for accesscontrol to the skulls-and-bones mainframe.

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