Toshiba revamps Qosmio X305 as a premium games machine

Taking a swipe at Alienware and VooDoo, Toshiba has re-launched its Qosmio X305-Q708 as its ‘most powerful gaming laptop to date’. The $4,200 top-of-the-range model comes with nearly every component upgraded.

The high price tag gets you just about every imaginable top-end feature that it’s possible to squeeze into a laptop case:

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 CPU
17-inch display at 1680×1050
HDMI out, DisplayPort
Four Harmon Kardon speakers + subwoofer
4GB of DDR3 RAM
128GB SSD
320GB SATA hard drive at 7,200 RPM
A second 128GB SATA solid state drive
Dual-layer DVD burner
1.3-megapixel webcam
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
Dual 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics cards set up in SLI mode
802.11b/g/n WiFi
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
Vista Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit)

The graphics card is set up in hybrid SLI mode so you actually have three graphics processors squishing polygons for your gaming delight! The new X305 also uses a GeForce 9400M as it’s motherboard GPU, just like the Apple MacBook Pro. This allows the machine to switch between high-performance graphics card and low-power-consumption integrated chips when using the battery.

Further performance improvements include a 128GB SSD as the primary ‘drive’ for regular reads/writes and a 320GB hard disk for long-term storage,

Also included:

A full-sized keyboard with a ten-key number pad
Four Harman Kardon speakers
HDMI / DisplayPort connectors
A 1.3-megapixel webcam
Wireless USB / USB Sleep-and-Charge technologies
A 17-inch TruBrite LCD

Unfortunately Toshiba is still not offering a Blu-Ray optical drive, even as an option (they offer a DVD SuperMulti burner instead). This is despite the fact that we’re coming up to a year since it became obvious that rumours of HD’s death were not exaggerated.

Another downer is the ‘fiery’ fusion lid decoration which few male users would want to be seen walking around with.

The Qosmio X305-Q708 can now be purchased from Toshiba at www.toshibadirect.com. Detailed product information about the Qosmio X305 family of gaming laptops is available at www.explore.toshiba.com/X305.

[from: engadget via JPEGradar]