Official x300/x305 Owner's Lounge

Toshiba is flaky...I bought mine on the 12th and they said it was in stock and would be shipped within 1 or 2 days. now, it is is backordered till the 9th of Jan expected ship is Jan 12th.

 

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, they seem to be chompin' at the bit to cancel orders.

 

Havent been on for awhile, so I haven't gone through the thread but I noticed a mention of the nvidia mobile driver 179.28. I highly recommend using it, I have the q701 with 9700m gts and this gave me about 500 point boost in 3dm6 from stock drivers or Toshiba's newest ones. They don't have any compatibility issues and you can game on using just batteries without loss of performance.

If anyone is using laptopvid2go drivers I suggest you uninstall using safe mode and use driver sweeper then install the nvidia mobile one and then disable the physx for even more framerates in game.

Awesome work nvidia! Oh and this is just their first release.

 

funny....Dude55 was just saying that they suck..... =s

 

Just call the number on Monday and talk to a sales rep, they should hook you up.

 

So I was so excited about another ASUS, the G50VT-X1, till I noticed it was only DDR2 but loved the size and features for the money. Now I have looked at a Fijitsu on simular specs but now on ATI X3470, but has eSATA and even has the extra PCMCIA slot for my NIKON CF reader.

GPU upgrading? So if I can get hold of the nVidia 9800, will it take and wich of the various versions are better of the GTS or GS? Also, are we limited to nvidia, or can we drop an ATI X-Fire set in here if we have the 2 slots?

The ASUS does support Intel RAID but you have to add the 2nd HDD, so is this so w/ the Q701/Q705?

 

OK, can somebody feedback on how to set the scrolling functions on the X300/x305 series? I noticed it is not quite like my previous models (my Tecra or ASUS) and has some different settings. I see what looks like the lay out for both verticle and horizontle scrolling, but only one spot to select. I set to "auto scroll" and still nothing. I even rest to default and of corse nothing.

Any input? Thankx in advance!

 

Yeah, considered the Asus too, but no RAID support either and the graphics solution is better with Toshiba as well as upgradeability.

 

I was going to get the Asus G71G-A2 because of the dual lamp 2 CCFL 17.1" WUXGA (1920x1200) Decided to go with the Toshiba because of the graphics cards. Figure if I want a nice display, can connect via HDMI.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=333034

 

YES, the ASUS and most of their mid sized units w/ Intel PM chipsets will and do support Inel RAID as well as AHCI by both design and by ASUS, especially since they, ASUS, provide the 2nd HDD bay/slot unlike most others in the 15" size. My old PM965 did and was fixed in BIOS, so if you installed w/o 2nd drive and not on VISTA, you had to do the USB floppy 3rd party install too.

As long as you're willing to add your won 2nd drive, and reconfigure OS to integrate Intel RAID. Let's hope the Qosmio and it's BIOS is capable of this too.

 

OK. so I finally got to set up my new X305. I have lots to say and will update as it comes in. I have to say right off the top, I dont really like the touch pad and the wat it is flush w/ the palm rest area. It is so dificult to distinguish from edges when not looking at it and going by feel as a lot of us might do in gaming. It can be programmed for tap sections but is not so responsive all the time often requiring a 2nd or firmer tap of the set area (for example the page back and forward function set to either the top or bottom corner sections).

Otherwise, a great notebook and keyboard is not so much flexable unless you are a harsh tapper (pounder) but more so it is a loud clicker. I wish it was softer like my ASUS. I wish the lid had a locking lever to make.

 

OH NO! I just went to the BestBuy site and the X305 isn't there anymore! Where will I find the X305-Q705?? I just went on their site yesterday and it was there and the local store had them in stock finally. And now they've taken it completely off the website. I'm on the road....I guess I could just check in various BB's..... *sigh*....

T.

 

fry's Electronics has them on sale now for $1249. in store only. So if it has to be Best Buy, bring a Friday store add and they will match the price if on the shelf and give you 18months interest free. You have till Tuesday to match the price for Fry's. Good luck

This is for sure in CA NV & UT but I have not confirmed other states as I just drove through them so far.

 

A Friday store ad? I don't live near a Fry's (they're mostly west coast) so I don't get their ads.....oh well. Well, I'll look in the local BB's and see if they have any. Fry's has them on sale online.....for that price. It's not instore only.

 

Cool about the online sale. I did not see it when I looked on Friday. So for sure, I'd order so you can get the lower price since, unless it is now on sale at BB this Sunday on. It was $1599.00 on Saturday but the add changed yesterday.

 

Can we adjust the Toshiba preinstalled VISTA partition to make room for adding a 2nd one? What is the other space used for, iiniiitial set up of for the S4 "Hibernate" save to disc?

 

Wow, so if i ordered it today, i could get it tomorrow.....(overnight shipping is only $40)......oooooooh...decisions decisions. Except that now I've been drooling over the 706, but it's $2000 at toshiba and it looks like it would take a few weeks. Why oh why don't any stores have the 706???

Does anyone know if I buy a Toshiba from a store, can I still purchase a warranty directly from Toshiba for that??

 

Newegg offers the 706, plus a 3 year ADH warranty and Next day shipping. So, you could go through them and get it all at once.

 

Yeah, more and more Qomsio X305's are being sold at other stores/retailers. When it was first unveiled/showcased, it was solely limited to Best Buy, but now its available at the Toshiba Store and Newegg. That Newegg deal, however, is not much better than $2000 at the Toshiba Store.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114558&Tpk=x305

And you can purchase an extended warranty directly from them:


Service Net Notebook Extended Warranty Plan

All notebooks are serviced at an authorized repair facility and a box will be shipped to your home or business with instructions. Shipping charges are covered under the plan(more info0.12)

* 1 year: $79.99
* 2 year: $119.99

Service Net Day 1 Notebook ADH Warranty Plan

Accidental Damage from Handling coverage begins at the time of purchase. Mechanical failures are covered after the manufacturers’ warranty expires. Shipping charges are covered under the plan(more info1.13)

* 2 year: $249.99
* 3 year: $329.99



But im not sure if you can get a warranty from Toshiba separately, you should contact them.

 

Only difference is....Toshiba won't send it out for a couple of weeks...so it says on their site. And I think NewEgg has them in stock for same day shipping...... otherwise I would just buy direct from Toshiba....although at this point, I'm still researching and by the time I'm done, I could have a new 706 from Toshiba!!

 

See I'm in the same boat. Still researching the laptop offerings, and trying to find out how much diffrence it would be to have a faster proc, but only one of the 9800 gts video cards, vs the slower proc and SLI.

 

believe me, SLI nearly doubles your framerates. it is a whole other world with SLI and the things you can adjust.
a faster processor will not help nearly as much as SLI would.
what laptops are you trying to decide between?

 

Any one here with TOSHIBA QOSMIO X300-13P? Just thinking about buying this thing. Single 9800GTX, how is it? Interested in real data, not in http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile...nth=&or=&professional=0&search=&sort=3dmark06

 

Toshibadirect.com sucks, don't buy from them! I ordered my X305-Q706 on December 12th and they said it would be shipped within 1-2 business days. Now they are telling me it is backordered until the middle of January! If you want your money tied up for a month with no assurance of delivery and some lame, "It is unfortunate" excuses then buy from Toshibadirect.com.

You can get the X305-Q706 from Toshibadirect.com for $1750 but who knows when it will deliver and they WILL charge $200+ for state sales tax. You are better off buying from newegg for $1949 because you will get it within 1-2 days and not pay sales tax. Again, Toshibadirect.com is a horrible experience, their customer service is extremely arrogant in that they assume that you need them rather than the other way around. I will never buy anything from them again. I don't like being lied to.

 

Oh that's too bad....yeah, well I figured it would take a couple of weeks, since it says something like "ships in 1 to 2 weeks". And I want it now!! Hehe....don't we all. I'll look at some BB's over the next couple of days to see what the stock is. But I'd still want the on site warranty.....because Ihate having to wait for a box, then mail it out, then wait.....etc....so I guess I'd still have to buy that from Toshibadirect. At least THAT's in stock

PS-I just saw a new one at NewEgg!!! The X305-Q725!!! oooo.....but I can't afford it. Maybe that means the 706 will come down in price???

 

Yeah, I just saw that, thanks! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114635 It has a single 9800m gtx and a quadcore processor. I'm thinking about cancelling my order with Toshibadirect.com on Friday and ordering from newegg. The single 9800m gtx is probably a better all around performer than the 9800m gts in sli. I'm really ticked off with Toshibadirect.

 

The 706, MSI GT725, and the Asus G71g-a2

All of which have awesome stats and are around the same price. With the MSI being the cheapest of the three and the only one with an ATI Videocard.

Lots of possibilites, and just need to sort the details out. Although I kinda like the stats on the new q725 that was just found on newegg. just dont want to spend that much because i definatly need the ADH due to the fact that my daughters tend to well, be little kids

 

Don't forget Fry's. Somebody said here that the Q705 was on the Fry's Outpost site. If this was true, and it was same as in store, then it is still less then BB off sale as of this morning $1349. I saw it at BB for over 1500 just this last Saturday. Is it on sale now for less?

 

I just saw the 705 at Bestbuy on sale for $1349 this afternoon.

 

Cool cool, still a decent price.

This may be more a Vista "?", if I lost the ability to put system to S3 "sleep" if in max PWR mode w/ sleep and charge mode 1 in CMOS. It appears to only enter S1 "sleep" (fans & lights on, monitor off). If I change to balanced and tweak for morte performance it sleeps but no USB charge anymore. What PWR tweaks do I need to fix to get S3 "sleep" (all major system off except for chipset and RAM?

What does mode 2 in CMOS offer over mode 1?

I do know it did so fine before most of my final app installs and changing of default PWR usage profile. It was charging each my PSP and iPod and left LED optical mouse powered. I noticed it was sensitive to wake up on mouse movement so i stopped leaving USB (wired) mouse plugged in. I tweaked "performances" 1st then moved to "balance" and tweaked as needed.

 

Hi everyone and Merry Christmas!

I finally got to finish my review of the Q706 and post it, however the general consensus is that the 3dMark06 scores for this should be around 12k, I've gotten a maximum of 9895, just did that one right now. I agree that I should update the drivers, but the laptopvideo2go modded drives crash on Vista login, and I tried the ones Nvidia has on their site with no avail, it won't install. (Glad to see they finally put them up at least).

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

Matt

 

Well BB took the 705 off their website completely. May still be in stores...I'm gonna go look tomorrow. I'm just wondering if the 706 will come down in price, because of the new 725.....

T.

 

I can't see paying $2500 for the 725 when all you are getting is the single 9800m gtx vs. dual gts's, a 64gb SSD and a slightly better processor. If I am going to upgrade from P8400, it's NOT going to be the Q9000. According to this benchmarking page, http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html the Q9000 is only marginally better than the P8400. It is a chip that Intel blows out in bulk to OEM"s just like the P8400.

Not interested in paying a premium for an SSD drive right now either. There could be some justification for the single 9800m gtx over the dual 9800m gts's but the jury is still out until Nvidia releases drivers for the hybrid SLI setup. That would be pretty cool if Toshiba made the single 9800m gtx available as an upgrade for 701 705 owners and SLI upgradeability for 725 buyers.

 

I'd stay w/ the Intel chipset and go for the nV 9800M GTX over the nVidia and SLI. and go w/ the fastest 7200 HDD over the SSD anyways.

Anybody trry to RAID 0 a set of HDD's on the X305's (Intel chipsets) yet? I wonder if it is preset on RAID BIOS. I have "2" HDDs set in but dont see any kind of RAID BIOS from Toshiba or Intel.

As for nVidia chipsets on a notebook, do they really make that big a differance for an added $500+? I never saw much big gain for my money on a desktop version. Gain, yes, just not worth %500+ for the games I would do.

I never used on notebook, so I'm just wondering if RAID 0 w/ a GTX would be close enough for the less money spent then SLI on nVidia.

 

Who cares about RAID when there will be SSD drives available that can smoke any RAID configuration without number 1) taxing your CPU and number2) why do you need raid if an SSD can read/write at +240mb per second without it?

 

The Asus is great for the fact of the 2.53ghz CPU, 6GB of ram, and 2 320GB hard drives. The 9800M GS is the weakest card of the 3 laptops, however. The 17" screen has a resolution of 1920x1200 and also has a blu-ray drive to see the content in full 1080p.

The Toshiba has a weaker 2.26ghz P8400, and only 4GB of RAM. However, 6GB of RAM is not needed, as the extra 2GB won't really help. anyway, the RAM in the Toshiba is DDR3 at 1066mhz. And, the Toshiba only has a 320gb hard drive, but you can add another. And of course, dual Nvidia 9800M GTS's. The resolution is 1680x1050.

The MSI has a 2.53GHZ P9500, which is just a tad bit better than the 2.53ghz CPU of the Asus, as the P9500 is newer and has more transistors, etc.. and uses only 25watts instead of 35. Also, the MSI has a blu-ray drive, and an ATI HD4850 which is about equivalent to a 9800M GTX, although it might be a bit better. And the screen resolution is 1920x1200, so you can have 1200p and watch blu ray in full 100% definition. It is only $1600 and can be overclocked.

I am thinking the MSI is the best bet with the Toshiba in second and the Asus in third.

 

Try installing the regular drivers from Toshiba's website.

Also try the programs I listed on the first page of this thread.

I am just about 1400 points behind your score and you have 2 9800GTS compared to my 1 9700GTS and a processor that is 260mhz faster.

 

Well I'm certainly not having any problems with performance out of my Q701...
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v720/christopherquinalty/My Qosmio/?action=view&current=T9600.jpg However, I question the scores, as they dont describe how well this beast performs on games...

 

The ones on the Toshiba site are the same ones that came installed on the machine to begin with, version 7.15.11.7649 (176.49).

Even using all the programs to optimize the computer, the max I have seen is 9895.

 

RE: RAID 0. I was only speaking og my personal experience as of to date and of recent 8 months. I have not tested any newer 2nd generation SSD yet. so only having an 8 month tech to deal w/ I can say they do/did not even ot perform even a single 7200 Seagate and for sure not a Hitochi, let alone a dual RAID "0" set on an ASUS PM965 notebook. So it sounds like things are changing as we speak so imagine what a RAId "0" set of new SSD's w/ improved access times can doi.

oh ja, Merry Christmas to you alll! And have a good new year.

Any input on Toshiba and Vista's "Sleep And Charge"?

 

I'm thinking that RAID with flash memory devices has to be a gimmick to separate me from my hard earned dollar.

 

Actually, I don't know where but I have been hearing stories that the SLi is disabled and you are only using 1 9800M GTS. 9895 Would probably be an appropriate score with just 1 9800M GTS. So only time can tell, just wait until new drivers.

 

yep, sing it baby, ha, ha

anybody?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZL10oxPwY

 

that was so random lol and such bad quality of video lol

 

Anybody here have any experience with the Creative X-Fi PCI-E mobile cards and how to get them configuried right to record "what you hear"? I lost the Creative CD and it is not available online from them, so maybe another sorce.

 

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=640750

this help? you can always call creative and ask them

 

Hey Guys. I need help with the media control buttons on my qosmio x305. Since i bought the PC and those touch buttons dont wanna work. Whenever i touch one of them, i hear a beep sound and nothing happens. i.e. i cant turn off the lights, i cant mute the sound.... Any suggestions?
Thanks

 

I just saw the x305-q701 at bb for about $1000. and they also had the f55-502 there for about $1100. how would these two compare to the x305-q705 for $500 more??? I have to go look up the specs and compare. I noticed the sound was better on the x305s in general ....more speakers I guess. any input would be helpful as I will go back there tomorrow morning possibly to purchase.

 

Which laptopvideo2go drivers have you tried? http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18471

 

GPU: nV 9800, where can I get one of any version and how much right now? Will Toshiba direct sell me an upgrade, do we have to register our units 1st? I have an old Alienware on 945PM w/ old nV 7900, will they sell me a new 9800 and will my current 8700 work in the old 945PM?

APU: (sound cards) I'm not having the best of luck w/ my Creative X-Fi Extreme Notebook edition. I cant get it to allow for record "what I hear". or loop the onboard out to X-Fi in. Who makes a good notebook sound card w/ its own onboard APU so I donht have to share system resorces? I would like ability to record from various sorces including multi channel 6ch in.

Thankx in advance!

Any word on "sleep and charge" yet? I now changed from mode 2 to 2 in CMOS, still no change.