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Toshiba's Qosimo G40 notebook: Sweet design, sweeter specs
Okay, the first thing I have to do in talking about the Qosimo G40 laptop is give props to Toshiba in picking what is perhaps the best possible screenshot for showing off the new silver color scheme of the Qosimo line, which has traditionally come in your basic black. Silver is the future, though, and so is high-def, which this media-suited notebook is all about. An HD DVD drive (burner as well) and an HDMI 1.3 output mean you can easily hook up the G40 to an HDTV to watch flicks in 1080p (assuming your set can handle that, of course).
The guts of this thing include a 2-GHz Core 2 Duo processor and a 512-MB GeForce Go 8600 GT video card, so feel free to mix it up as much as you want in Command & Conquer 3. Two gigs of RAM and at least 200 GB of storage are expected, Electronista reports, and the price will be in the neighborhood of 3,000 euros (about $4,000, though that could easily drop a bit when and if the G40 ever comes to the U.S.).
Feast your eyes on some glamor shots of the G40 after the jump.
By randombytes at 5:06 PM ON 04/07/07
I hate to knock this laptop, but anybody else think that the keyboard on this thing is way too small?
A laptop of this size, weight and specs shouldn't make a usb-keyboard necessary. At $4k, we're talking desktop replacment.
Would like see some innovation re: mice also. I recall seeing a laptop (don't remember where, a while back...) that had an embedded mouse built in. You could optionally pull the wireless usb-mouse out. All that was missing was the mouse pad.
Like I said, don't mean to beat down on this laptop - but I keep seeing 19' and up laptops not taking advantage of the additional real estate to create a more desktop like experience for the user.
By LT999 at 7:34 PM ON 04/12/07
toshiba keyboards are always small, we have one and i can't use it at all
By TreLore at 1:21 PM ON 04/14/07
I love it but my biggest problem with the design is the location of the mousepad. I have a laptop made by them and typing is at times frustrating. Because sometimes if your typing fast, the pointer jumps when you have the pad turned on. So you end up having to retype everything. Because the points jumps and places your text in the wrong spot. I was hoping that Toshiba would move the pad to the top of the Keyboard on any new designs. Other then that design flaw it looks like a laptop I would want.
By galacticaftw at 10:11 AM ON 05/30/07
not inpressed. trust me, i can get a 2.4ghz 2gb ram, 150gb HD, GF 8800Gt 512mb with DVI/VGA ports, expantion ports, 4 USBs, firewire, 17" WS, video cam, with a full line of media keys and prgm macro keys for like 1,900 - 2,500.
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