Toshiba announced that the Qosimo, its HD DVD-standard laptop, should be available for under $1000 in time for Christmas. Citing easily available DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives as the cause for mainstream adoption of DVD, Toshiba believes that affordable HD DVD/DVD-RW drives will dictate the winner of the war. While battery drain is still a high-def movie disc issue, and laptop screens really don’t do the 1080p content justice, the widespread availability of the drives may be a nail in the coffin for Blu-ray. Not that we wouldn’t like to see a Blu-ray equipped Sony Vaio at that price. [PC World]
Toshiba premiered their new notebooks this week, with the Qosmio G40 a big step up for the desktop replacement scene. And they’ve done a good job on improving the overall design of the whole Tosh lappy range, too.
There are a few killer features in here, like its HD DVD-R drive that offers 30GB of disc burning goodness – probably the sexiest implementation of HD DVD we’ve seen anywhere. You also get twin DVB-T tuners on board for serious TV viewing chops, plus support for 1080p and Virtual Dolby Surround (run through its very nice 4-speaker Harmon Kardon setup). Pretty much all the specs are top of range. Runs Windows Vista Ultimate out of the box too. It’s available now for $4999. More details after the jump.
Although the most notable feature in the Qosmio G45-AV680 laptop is the fact that you can burn 30GB onto one HD DVD-R disc, its other specs are quite good as well. There’s Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, four Harman Kardon speakers, a built-in sub, a PowerMate-like silver control knob with blue LED light, 17-inch 1920×1200 display, 2GB RAM, Intel T7300 Core 2 Duo processor, and a built-in webcam. The price for all this? $3,199. Not too bad, considering the HD DVD-R and the first class features. [Businesswire]
HD DVD fans are getting a double helping of good news this morning thanks to Toshiba. Their SD-L912A is not only the first HD DVD-RW drive for laptops, but measuring in at half an inch thick, it’s also the slimmest. Sure, it’s slow (1x read/write speeds) and faster drives are bound to follow, but for now it’s the only option available. It’ll be out this July. – Louis Ramirez
Toshiba SD-L912A [Impress]
The gigantastic high-definition Toshiba Qosmio G40 someone leaked last month
is out in Japan and soon it will be available all over the world. As expected, it comes along with the Qosmio F40 just in time to join all that hot Santa Rosa action from LG, Samsung and HP.
Unlike the HP Dragon, that 20-inch titan that can be used as a laptop, desktop, surf board and truck loading bay, the 17-inch panoramic Qosmio G40 is a full high definition beast. It’s powered by a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of RAM, running at 1,920 x 1,200 pixel. The top of the line model comes with a Core 2 Duo T7300 processor, 320GB hard drive and a HD DVD player/recorder built-in, plus 1 GB of flash RAM for accelerated Vista operation. To complement its HDTV capability it also comes with digital/analog TV tuner (yes, that thing on the side is the antenna), remote control and four speakers, plus HDMI and S/PDIF digital AV outputs.
Enough? Not really. This technological terror even comes with more stuff, right after the jump.
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