Picked up a Toshiba R835-P50 today from bestbuy.

I picked up the latest toshiba r835. So far so good. I'm liking it overall, it runs league of legends at native res on medium settings around 40-60 fps depending on how much combat is going on... which was gonna be the make or break deal for me as to whether or not i needed a dedicated card... surprisingly i don't.

A couple issues I have so far, the power cord falls out really easily just from movement.

The laptop is emitting that awful new eletronics smell. I ran a few burn in programs all night while it sat under a case fan... CPUID HW monitor says the temps hit 90c+ with both the gpu+cpu at 100%... running furmark and prime 95 to hopefully get this smell out as quickly as possible. It gives me a headache... so far its not so bad... im gonna leave it running all day today while at work.

The screen is really nice. It's definitely a stand out when your at bestbuy looking at it compared to other models.

I messed around with what programs turn on at startup because it was taking well over a minute to fully boot with the 9 different toshiba apps that wanted to run on boot up... Now i've lost all the functionality of the FN keys and I can't figure out which of those programs had the functionality to turn it back on.

Last but not least, my Crucial c300 128gb drive will be in tomorrow. Hopefully I can get this thing to boot in 15-20 seconds.

These are just my initial impressions with it after about an hour and a half of time. I'll be back home to play with it more in about 12 hours. Hopefully some more burn in will get rid of the feint smell thats left.

If you guys want me to test out anything for you just let me know and i'll try to get around to it.

Also, I haven't actually looked into it yet but does anyone know if the hard drive sits on a sata 6gb port? I'll look tonight once i figure out how to boot the UEFI, so far it flies past it in about 1 second so i'm assuming you have to hold the button down on boot up.

 

Congrats!

It would be great if you could do a battery life test.
Just under normal usage, wi-fi on, web surfing, word processing and some music maybe.

 

Pics Plz! Have a family member who might get this.

 

Can you confirm if the Wi-Fi card/miniPCIe is accessible for upgrading?

 

Is the keyboard any better at all compared to the R700's? Or is it still exactly the same? And what about the heat output, does it get hot at the bottom?

 

how is the fan noise ? I had a r700 and sold it only for that reason. Screen viewing angles were not good as well.

 

I had heard about the fan noise on the R705 as well as bezel cracking?, hope both are addressed on the new R835.

 

Any updates on the laptop OP?? Battery, Fan, Keyboard etc??

 

I suspect the OP may have returned the Toshiba. Haven't heard from the OP since the first post.

Check here for more discussion on the R835.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/toshiba/571389-just-got-new-r835-p50x.html