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    X500-165 Drool

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by thamightyboro, Jan 20, 2011.

  1. thamightyboro

    thamightyboro Notebook Enthusiast

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    PCworld here in the UK should have stock on Monday so I've been told by Tosh and PCWorld.

    Qosmio X500-165 - Product Specifications - Toshiba

    Can't wait for it to arrive so I can take the promised £1300 credit note for the Envy 17" I have thats cooking me running pretty much permenantly at 100C +
     
    thamightyboro, Jan 20, 2011
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  2. alexUW

    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    nice! You wanna trade? :p
     
    alexUW, Jan 20, 2011
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    GSK2011 Newbie

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    hi,
    i am keen to buy one of these machines as well. where did you get the info that pc world are selling these? do you know what date they will start selling?

    thanks
     
    GSK2011, May 22, 2011
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  4. SMOKE_SKULL

    SMOKE_SKULL Notebook Deity

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    That just seems like a lot of $$$$ for a notebook.
     
    SMOKE_SKULL, May 23, 2011
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    If your in Europe wait a month or 2 for the NEW Qosmios to launch; Qosmio x770. They are very nice.

    Though my link is translated, I post it because it has the most pictures available.
    Google Translate


    Good luck
     
    alexUW, May 23, 2011
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  6. Audi4ever

    Audi4ever Notebook Evangelist

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    The new qosmio looks good, but what GFX cards?. They only write 1.5GB GTX card,but i wounder how fast
     
    Audi4ever, May 24, 2011
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    The Qosmio x770 comes with a GTX 560m 1.5GB card.

    In all cases, it's just a revised version of the GTX 460m with a few tweaks (5%-10% faster). The Qosmio x770s are basically the same as the q8_100X series [like what I have].



    My opinion on this is that, Toshiba probably wanted to release the new x770 with the new GTX 500 series GPUs and i7-SB CPU. However, the SB chips came out 6 months before the revised nvidia 500m GPUs.

    So in a way, the x505 q8_100X series should have never existed. It was just a bridge model between the x505 q89X and x770 models.
     
    alexUW, May 24, 2011
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  8. very_hardcore

    very_hardcore Notebook Geek

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    i spoke to toshiba (uk) last week as well but they told me its very unlikely that they will be selling it via retail shops like pc world. maybe wromg information. lets wait till monday, ts not that far. by the way any idea how much pc world would be selling it for, would it be at same price as toshiba wesbite which is £1799....??
     
    very_hardcore, May 24, 2011
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  9. Audi4ever

    Audi4ever Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok many thanks

    In that case i do not see any reason to upgrade from my "old" thrusty Qosmio X500(Europeian versjon) with i7 740 and GTX460m 1080P
     
    Audi4ever, May 24, 2011
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    Spoke to toshiba rep (uk) again today. according to the rep he didnt know anything about new toshiba model coming soon plus no qosmios in pc world either next week as told by toshiba rep and pc world customer service. well all we can do is wait again i guess which i have been doing since january. if nothing comes by end of june then i might go for new alienware 18 inch which has similar specs and price to that of toshiba. wonder why its so difficult to buy a decent gaming machine in uk... :(
     
    very_hardcore, May 25, 2011
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