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Toshiba QOSMIO X770: Big and clever is perfect for gaming and multimidia. 17.3 inch with 1080p HD active 3D screen. Price from: £1425 |
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The laptop is perfect for gaming and multimedia laptop: 17.3" 1080p HD active 3D screen, Sandy Bridge Core i7, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M graphics driving the 3D, 1TB of disk space, Harmon/Kardon speakers and a Blu-ray player/DVD burner.
The Design
A metallic grooved surface that fades from red to grey at the base of the screen, and the same inside the case. It's plastic rather than metal, but it's sturdy enough and the build quality is the usual high Toshiba standard. There's no flex on the keyboard at all, and not much on the screen either.
The screen bezel is glossy black plastic but it's thin enough compared to the screen. Red illuminated controls, red keyboard backlight, red indicator stripe to tell you whether the touch pad is on or off, strange organic shapes on the speaker grilles and a subwoofer on the otherwise standard plastic base. The QOSMIO certainly stands out, and not in the tasteful understated way of a high-end Dell, HP or Asus system.
The X770 doesn't do anything odd or extreme here when comes to the keyboard. The isolated island-style keys have standard squared keynotes that let the backlight filter through slightly. Light also shines through from the base of each key and the backlight comes on automatically when you type and fades when you stop. They also have excellent travel and a good, if slightly soft, action.
With Keypad your fingers won't be slipping on this, although it's fluid and responsive. It's centred under the keyboard so it's in the right place as you type and the proportion matches the screen.
Engine Room
Toshiba Qosmio X770-11C is powered by the latest quad core Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Processor which makes it a powerful laptop for gaming and entertainment. Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Processor provides optimum processing power, with Intel’s Hyper Threading and Turbo Boost technologies.
The Display
The 1920 by 1080 full 1080p HD screen is eye-poppingly impressive, and mostly in a good way. Colours are vivid and saturated; sometimes that means blocks of colour on Web pages can look almost garish, but the screen shines when it comes to pictures and video
oshiba Qosmio X770-11C 17.3 inch Laptop has a full HD 3D 43.9cm (17.3”) display which makes it not just a laptop but an entertainment system.
With QOSMIO, you'll either be impress on screen or complaining about the weight. The size of the screen pulls most of the 3.4 kilos down onto your knees and although the chassis tapers at the front to give the keyboard a rake, it's mostly a chunky 58mm thick; though that's actually a little smaller and lighter than previous QOSMIO monsters.
Connectivity
On the left is the extra-large power jack as well as: VGA; HDMI; gigabit Ethernet; a single USB 3 port; and one of the three USB 2 ports which can also charge devices when the PC is off. On the right are the other two USB ports and separate headphone and speaker sockets. On the front is the memory card slot, which is hidden enough to make the warning light a useful reminder, and takes the usual selection of formats including SD cards and MemoryStick.
Storage
1TB of disk space; 2 x 500GB hard drives is a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive, with 4GB of flash memory. That doesn't always make it as fast as an SSD, but anything that's in the 4GB cache loads far faster than from a standard hard drive, and the drive caches what you use the most.
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