Toshiba X505-Q879 & X505-Q880

I was looken around to see whats out in the market and I saw the X505-Q879 & X505-Q880 which caught my eye.

Anyone have any insight on Toshiba laptops? Quality? Life? Anything else that would be helpful is much appreciated.

Thanks

 

The x505 was recently reviewed here on the site:

Here is a link to the page with the review: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5595&review=toshiba+qosmio+x505

Here is a link to the page that has a discussion on the review: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=475309

And here is a link to two other members' brief review and reflections of the x505 that might be of help to you:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=324292

and

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=476995

You might be able to find other reviews, but these could be a good place to start.

 

Pretty good reviews. I do dislike the hard drive locking capability that was mentioned in one of the reviews. Need to do more homework.

THANKS!

 

I am sure you can disable that thing somewhere , I just didn't have too much time to play around with it . It's a useful feature under some conditions ( say your computer dropped from your bed).

 

First of all, HDD Protection accelerometer (if you mean this) can be very well fine-tuned for variety of conditions via their application.

It's a very good failsafe for reducing strain on working HDD while moving laptop. But if you dislike it, you can just uninstall it - no big deal.