Yep, that’s Blu-ray on a Toshiba laptop. Don’t be shocked, you knew it was coming. The X500 also has an HDMI-CEC port, Harmon/Kardon speakers, a multi-touch touchpad (two-finger pinch, swipe, rotate, scroll), and a LED-backlit keyboard with a 10-key numberpad.
Toshiba says you’ll be able to tailor the processor and DDR3 memory (it’s still deciding on specifics), opt for a 1080p or 720p-capable screen, and go with either a 7200rpm hard disk on its own, or combined with a solid-state drive. We’ll know full specs and pricing sometime in mid-October.
Looks like a pretty decent addition to the Qosmio family, but you’ll have to wait until Windows 7 arrives on October 22 to get your hands on one.
Jon
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 12:01 PMThis machine runs like a dream and performs flawlessly.
Unfortuantely due to a toshiba manufacturing/design flaw there is a long dark shadow/line that runs the length of the screen, it is at the height of the taskbar so it is not noticed until you play games, movies, etc full screen
Toshiba Australia initially stated it could be repaired, now they say it is a technology limitation. Obviously it is not a limitiation as other 18.4″ machines do not suffer this, only the Qosmio X500 series. They say it is a shadow from a tube that runs to the bottom of the screen and cant/wont be fixed.
As this is their premium range it is very disappointing that they expect Customers to just put up with such an obvious fault.