toshiba with 970/980m or any maxwell, when?

when the toshiba launch notebooks with GTX970 / 980m, there site yet still sell with 770m

 

That's a good question. I'm not knowing on this one. I'm running the X775 machine now and I have no idea when they plan to upgrade from that horrid chip. Their current model throttles like MAD when you put it under any kind of load.

Kinda sad really. They did REALLY good with the X775 cooling, but they need to stick with only a 75w TDP for the GPU portion, at MOST 75w. The 770M is a 90-95w GPU... The 765M would've been plenty to work with for that machine...but oh well.

 

I wouldn't hold my breath for too long on a Toshiba gaming laptop with the 900m series. Toshiba tried with the 600m equipped model and tried again with the 700m equipped models. From a marketting standpoint both of these laptops were failures as they did not provide Toshiba a solid position within the gaming laptop market as people did not buy the overpriced Toshibas in comparison to say alienware or asus etc. They have not made a 800m equipped model so i would imagine one is not coming, or will not be here for quite a while.

Samsung also tried to "all in" the gaming laptop market with their series 7 gamer, it was a solid laptop in its own right but did not achieve what Samsung hoped for as well which is why they pulled out of the gaming laptop market. Toshiba probably cut their losses and pulled out as well.

 

This is exactly what I am seeing happen with the Qosmio line, despite it's immense success and as stable as it runs. I've had literally ZERO issues with both the old X505 and X775 machines that I've owned. The X775 machine here is crazy capable even for today's needs in games. Most of the old games I play don't need much more than the 560M so it helps me with dealing with such a weak GPU. x3

As for the Samsung laptop you speak of, yeah it was good... but they never cared to attempt to upgrade or update to the latest top notch GPUs when they were out and about. They stuck with the rebranded Nvidia GPU (675M). Anyway, I feel that if they pushed for a 960M in one of the newer machines that it'd be plenty for what they need in a laptop. Yeah it's about on par with the 770M, but draws what? 45-50w compared to the monster hog that's the 770M (80w). That and the reduced wattage means a workable gaming rig with the single exhaust vent. :/

 

Haha agreed, i've handled a few of the qosmio gaming laptops and they were all very good laptops in their own right, its just sad the market basically "had no place for them" in a way and toshiba weren't able to continue their path with the qosmio gaming line.

Samsung had a strange choice as well they went really balls to the walls so to speak, even having the gaudy gaming switch feature that had a boatload of animations to go along with it. In the general sense though, samsung's laptop division hasnt been doing too hot in the market lately and they had to discontinue a portion of their ativbooks.