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Toshiba's Qosmio G30 is first laptop with HD DVD-R
Seeing how HD DVD burners are still quite a new idea for the desktop set, you can imagine our delight at discovering Toshiba's new Qosmio G30 laptop, which sports the elusive drive within its portable frame. Well, almost portable. At 10.6 pounds, we're not sure any mortal lap -- not to mention tray table -- could support this thing, but we really expected nothing less the first time around. The 17-inch display rocks it True HD style at 1920 x 1200, plus if you get bored with your selection of HD DVDs, there's always the analog and digital TV tuners to keep you entertained. Other specs on the G30/97A include a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T7200 processor, 1GB of RAM, dual 160GB HDDs, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics with 256MB of RAM, and just about every kind of connectivity you could think of -- USB 2.0, Firewire, PCMCIA, ExpressCard/54, multi-card reader, 802.11a/b/g, gigabit Ethernet, modem, VGA, S-video, S/PDIF and HDMI. Of course, in light of the G30/97A's 400,000 yen pricetag ($3,320 US), you might be interested in its G30/95A sibling, which for 280,000 yen ($2,324 US) drops the HD DVD for a DVD burner, swaps HDMI for DVI and skimps on a few other specs like a 1440 x 900 display resolution. If that's too much bulk, but you'd still like Toshiba to keep you in the medias, Toshiba is also announcing its Qosmio F30 laptops, which still include frills like digital tuners and S/PDIF, but drop those ExpressCard slots, along with pulling the display size down to a manageable 15.4-inches, at a 1280 x 800 resolution. Prices start at 200,000 yen ($1,660 US), and all of these new laptops feature Windows Vista Home Premium.[Via Impress]
Toshiba announces spec bumps for Qosmio, Dynabook laptops
Toshiba's introduced a whole raft of revisions to its Qosmio and Dynabook lines of laptops adding, on the Qosmio at least, terrestrial digital TV tuner capabilities. Leading the pack is the Qosmio F30, available in black or white, and loaded with a 1.66HGz Core Duo T2300 CPU, 128MB GeForce Go 7300 graphics card, 1GB RAM (maximum 2GB), 160GB hard drive, terrestrial digital/analog TV tuner, and 802.11b/g WiFi. It'll set you back a full ¥260,000 (about $2,260 US). On the Dynabook side of things, the AX, TX, CX, and SS MX models all get spec bumps, ranging from 1.46GHz Celeron M 410 to 1.66GHz Core Duo T2300 processors, and with prices coming in at ¥160,000 ($1,400 US) on the low end up to ¥200,000 ($1,740 US) for Dynabook SS MX, which also happens to be the smallest and lightest laptop of the lot. They all should be available in mid-to-late August.[Via Impress]
