Review: Toshiba’s Qosmio X305 (Sharks with Freaking Laser Beams)

25 10 2008

Gaming notebooks have been around for a few years now and getting a good one has been easy assuming you have heaping piles of cash. For those of us on a budget, we were stuck with mid range GPUs and big compromises in the visual settings of our games until Gateway’s FX line came out last winter. Brainwashed sheepish press will tell you that PC gaming is dead, but there must still be a few of us PC Gamers left because Gateway had a hit on its hands and soon most of its rivals followed suit by marketing gaming as a selling feature of notebooks. Today we’ll be looking at Toshiba’s Qosmio X305/300 gaming notebook.

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Coming Soon: Toshiba Monetvina Action

13 09 2008

… with a little bit of extra lovin’ from AMD in the form of the RADEON 3650.

Yummy!





Review: Gateway M-6864FX

1 09 2008

Gateway has been on a roll since being acquired by Acer last year. Acer’s aggressive pricing for decent specifications combined with Gateway’s newfound sense of style makes the Gateway M-6864FX its $750 to $999 street price a notebook of interest.

Hardware Highlights:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 2 GHz CPU
  • AMD RADEON Mobility 2600 with 512 MB of RAM
  • 14.1″ WXGA High-Definition Display With 1280 x 800 Resolution
  • 200 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
  • 4 GB DDR2 System Memory
  • LabelFlash Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support

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