Toshiba Qosmio V65 laptop brings Core i5, SpursEngine and Blu-ray to low-res screen

With Toshiba's Core i7-toting Qosmio X500 series laptops starting at a bit over a grand these days, we're not sure how excited we are about the company's new V65 portable PC. Though the former model spun Blu-ray discs into a fine-pixeled 1080p, this new model's SpursEngine-powered content's been relegated to a 1,366 x 768, 15.6-inch backlit screen. While Japanese consumers do get a 2.4GHz Core i5-450M processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, 500GB hard drive, plenty of ports and a digital TV tuner for the price, said price is an estimated ¥180,000 -- or about $1,972 in hard US currency if the machine ever comes stateside. A wee bit steep, in our estimation.

[strawe Posted Jun 16th 2010 9:24AM]

do not want.

[ruby Posted Jun 16th 2010 9:29AM]

my T410i is better.. 14" 1440x900 display

[Leindurstit Posted Jun 16th 2010 9:37AM]

@ruby Better if you absolutely hate good viewing angles or contrast or having blacks that aren't gray, sure.

[ruby Posted Jun 16th 2010 9:46AM]

@Leindurstit

at least the t410 has a high resolution matte screen.. that makes up for all of its shortcomings.

and the contrast isn't as bad when your sitting directly in front of it. viewing angles are overrated

[ruby Posted Jun 16th 2010 9:48AM]

@ruby
blacks are also black.. just so you know.

[Leindurstit Posted Jun 16th 2010 9:54AM]

Sorry, I've just grown to distrust anyone praising any Lenovo screen that isn't on an upmarket W-series or a Tablet, after seeing the worst of the worst on the X200s. So bad, it drove me to get a Mac...

[HoldenMccrotch Posted Jun 16th 2010 10:13AM]

@Leindurstit
dear god that must have been bad!

[ruby Posted Jun 16th 2010 10:51AM]

@Leindurstit

yea.. I will give apple credit for there notebook screens.. I hate the glossy ones but the antiglare versions are very nice.. some of the best I've seen, along with the sony z

the contrast on my Thinkpad is okay but there is much to be desired.. I'm just happy that it's high res and matte

[Seb6554 Posted Jun 16th 2010 9:44AM]

Aren't all laptop screens backlit?

[MarcO Posted Jun 16th 2010 10:21AM]

@Seb6554

Some lower-end screens are edge-lit...

[Seb6554 Posted Jun 16th 2010 10:28AM]

Right, fergot about that...

[bluesolace Posted Jun 16th 2010 10:03AM]

They'd be better off just buying a Satellite with those options rather than spending coin just to get a Qosmio model.

[hfm Posted Jun 16th 2010 10:51AM]

I actually don't mind my notebook's 1366x768 display.. keeps games running faster at the native res, looks fine to me. I have a different laptop for doing real work.

[Kejeza Posted Jun 16th 2010 10:57AM]

God this thing is ugly.