New X500 Gaming laptop series from Toshiba.

And it has Blu-Ray burners as standard. Looks better than the previous X300 series in my opinion as well.
But the graphics card looks iffy. :/

http://socialnews.toshiba.co.uk/?ReleaseID=13687

 

I'm sure there'll be an option to upgrade that card. I'm sure an 18.4 inch chassis can handle the heat of a 280

 

Compared to the old X300 that new Tosh is Megan Fox.

Not to say the X500 is really good looking, just that the X300 was that horrendously ugly.

 

Argh, can someone change the thread title to X500 instead of X300?

This really isn't a gaming laptop, the graphics card is far too weak to be called that and you can already tell by the thin design, much thinner than the previous X300 this is not a gaming laptop, it is a multimedia laptop, Toshiba what are you thinking!?

 

agreed, x300 was just revolting.

 

The GTS250M is above the 9800M GTS. Nothing weak about it.

Its no GTX280M of course, but it'll still perform nicely, miles above mid-range so thats enough to call it 'gaming' in my book.

 

How much do you guys think it will run for?

I don't like the card. A 250? When we can get 280's and 4870's? Too late in the game.

 

More conservative case design FTW.

 

The Geforce GTS 250M is an underclocked GTS 260M, while the GTS 260M is a Geforce 9800M GT with DirectX 10.1 support and a 128-bit memory bus + GDDR5. So it's not that weak, but it would probably fall short 30% in terms of performance compared to the GTX 260M or the HD 4850.

 

id be very surprised if you couldn't upgrade the GPU in this machine, having the massive screen should as others have said allow for some flexibility with component upgrades...

 

i think the gts250m has the same clocks as 9800m gt, the 260m is overclocked.

 

Careful though, although Nvidia lists the GTS 250m as DDR5, MSI has announced two models they say will have a GTS 250m with DDR3 memory... Hopefully MSI got their announcement wrong.

 

This laptop is great! I simply love the huge monitor, the blu-ray player and the design. The laptop is very good looking. The processor is great as well as the RAM and the HDD. I hope I can afford this laptop one day.

 

I get confused by your statement's sometimes, why would you want that laptop when your one is so much better? And you love slating laptop gaming anyway?

 

@ Bsdowling um..........so? What because you own a nice laptop you cant appreciate another? Maybe he will buy this one PLUS keep his Sager,

Anyways cheesman how are you?

GTS250 is ALSO DDR5 is 40NM and uses ONLY 27 watts. This thing will overclock NICELY. I cant wait till people start testing this card. I think it will be as strong as the 9800GTX. I know that might be overboard but the thing that caught my attention was Memory speed. This thing runs at 1600mhz compared to only 800mhz for the 9800GTS/GTX.

I tell you this, was this a heck of a year for notebooks or what?

 

Big time.

About this Toshiba, I like the look. Agree with most posts about the card. All black would be OK too, or with grey.

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I'd be very surprised if Toshiba didn't use a proprietary GPU design.