Toshiba's beastly Dynabook was last updated
in April, but at the time, Toshiba was still walking around with its chin up and refusing to integrate Blu-ray technology into its products. Now, however, the 18.4-inch Qosmio G60 (Dynabook MX in overseas markets) is finally bringing together a Cell-based
SpursEngine HD video co-processor with a Blu-ray drive, ensuring oodles of movie watching bliss for those mettlesome enough to lug this thing around. Other specs include a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo P8700 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M GPU, 500GB hard drive, 4GB of RAM, twin TV tuners, Windows 7 Home Premium and a 1080p panel. If all goes well, it'll ship next month (at least in Japan) for around ¥220,000 ($2,457), though your guess is as good as ours on a US release.
[Via
Engadget Japanese]
posted Oct 13th 2009 1:46PM
My bum is on the man, bum is on the man! its alotta fun to put your bum on a man!
Some Sony exec: "Now your journey to the Dark Side is complete!"
This looks allot better than their last Qosmio.
I rather get a Macbook for that price
I'd rather have Blu-ray than a Macbook.
hmmm. macbook at 2500 you get 15.4 in screen (1440:900 ) respective, but not full hd, lesser graphics card, lesser hard drive, no blue ray (dont worry your macbook doesnt have a hd screen so you dont need one ANYWAY) oh, and erase all your data feature. that'll come handy when your girlfriend comes over and you need to get rid of all your porn
There are so many more laptops I would get over a Mac, but then again, I'm more about substance than style, more for my money and less about looking like a pretentious snob and feeling "safe" from malware.
No, for $2500 you get a 17" screen (with a 1920x1200 res) a faster processor and the same size hard drive and ram. not to mention its not made out of cheap plastic and you can carry it around. You just don't get the blue ray drive, which I would hate to see how much apple would charge for that.
Fugly
Like your face.
Toshitty Quasimotto, system board failures, overheating, fire, you name it. And extra crappy outsourced warranty through ServiceNET.
I ahve to agree with the warranty part. Toshiba Support is horrible.
Why? it's just a big bag of hurt!
it looks terrible
The price is high because it includes the carrying cart to push it around.
it has c2d and geforce, more than enough to decode BD, then what is this spursengine for?
It's a cell spe designed to take the load off the cpu when decoding 1080p video.
If I'm mistaken feel free to correct me.
@ Entourage
But aren't HD videos and BluRay decoded through the GPU already, with the exception of HD flash videos.
My guess is they wanted to reduce the heat consumption on the graphics card also because the spursengine uses 10-20w less energy to do the same thing rather than have the graphics take on the load.
Idk why Toshiba did it but it's one of those additions you can't really complain about. I did read reports that several Japanese companies(inclu. Toshiba) have been collaborating with each other to work on a new microprocessor but Idk if Cell has anything to do with it.
The spurs card can encode full HD in real time.
I dont really understand these gigantic laptops...you'd become a hunchback carrying that thing around...Qosmio ->Quasimodo
I bought a desktop replacement and I have buyers remorse. My opinion is to keep gaming to desktops until thin and lights can do decent graphics (Ion maybe?).
I guess it all depends on what you're doing though.
Yikes, that is really really ugly.
These big laptops are not designed to carry around, but sit on your desk most of the time with the ability to carry when absolutely needed. I have a several years old Dell with 1920x1200 screen. While I love the screen (higher res than 1080p), we had to buy a second 13" laptop to carry around.
Nice hardware, poor shell design. Enough gloss black! When are they ever going to comprehend this? If this was matte black or matte black and gray it would look so much better.