Toshiba Qosmio X305 best bang for the buck ???>>>>

sounds good. to me it's pointless, to you about $750 for a lower res screen...

 

Some people don't care if they're playing the latest games at the lowest settings. I thought it was pretty obvious this isn't the kind of laptop for them.... guess not.

 

Hey this is a great laptop bang for the buck, I mean it basically has two 9600m GT desktop cards in SLI in it, not too shabby if you ask me. I would definitely buy this one if I hadn´t owned an XPS M1730. The lower res screen wouldn´t turn my attention away since I mostly game on my laptop anyway and better to be able to run games natively than struggling with them at 1920x1200 which will happen eventually.

I did the same with my desktop computer I only have a 1440x900 screen and my XFX 8800 GTX still maxed out every single game out there at this res.

 

All I can say is "wow!" I wish I waited till this model came out, I have the q701 and I also had the x205 SLI 1, so I am biased toward Toshiba because I have experienced the quality of their products. I also had a suspicion that some movers and shakers on this forum have an agenda to see Toshiba fail for whatever reason. The same with how Sony with the help of it's henchmen (warner bros. & the other collaberators) is trying to put Toshiba to it's demise even if Toshiba had a superior product geared more toward the consumer and their benefit (the hd-dvd would've been cheaper and consumers would be able to make back up copies and other advantages the technology had over blu ray) but ppl don't know any better now because of all the propoganda and hype with blu ray now that hd dvd is out of the picture.

Anyway back to this subject of bang for the buck. I went through the posts and I read the arguments of the native resolution of 1440x900. And Toshiba R&D did this for a reason. It's a notebook geared toward gaming, and since framerate is crucial to a believable gaming experience 1440x900 is an optimum resolution for graphical quality and performance and is future proof for next generation software that'll tax modern gpu's. People will argue that if games don't run well you can always lower the resolution but then the lower resolution has to be emulated because it's not native and it has to use unneccesary processing power. Also framerates fluctuate depending how much detail is being processed on the screen at any given time and if it's just to much for the computer to handle it'll drop below 24 fps so that is what breaks the illusion if the graphics could be computed and never dip below 24 fps that would be the ideal and so having the most processing power is the way to go in order to try to keep the framerate from dropping below 24 and that's why sometimes it goes to 60 even a 100, but anything higher than 60 is unneccesary or 24 for that matter if it never drops below that you keep the illusion.

Anyway Chaz instead of advocating a platform that's about to become obsolete why not review this outstanding deal from Toshiba. I mean I see alot of the other companies having "air time" how bout toshiba and they're spectacular efforts. That's why to me it's like there's a conspiracy to silence Toshiba. And arguments about the speakers, seriously sound gives full effect to the multimedia experience especially in a gaming world that's trying to bombard the senses. And again that's why the x305 was built from the ground up for gaming. Infact besides hearing and sight I hear the future will incorporate the other 3 senses into software for gaming. Well at least they're trying.

I'm pretty sure Toshiba as a laptop expert before shipping out their products puts it through a brutal stress test just like Panasonic, HP, Dell, etc. and that would say alot for the build. And while on the subject of build. I bought the notebook for the performance not how many times I can drop it.

So if I could redo this I would buy the x305 q706 in a heartbeat now I'm just hoping that there will be a way to upgrade this x305 q701 and throw in a more powerful gpu and cpu.