Review of the Qosmio G20 From Toshiba
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Sci-fi masterminds, from devious Davros, to the melon headed Mekon, both lacked one vital tech tool, to bring their galactical conquest aspirations to fruition - a Toshiba Qosmio G20 notebook computer.
Sciencefiction villains, from the devious Davros, to the melon headedMekon, all lacked one vital component to bring their plans forgalactic domination to fruition - a Qosmio G20.Qosmio means "my personal universe", and late last month Toshibaupdated their new line of best selling audio visual notebooks, byannouncing the Qosmio G20 desktop replacement laptop, a little late for the Mekon and his cronies,but right on time for multimedia laptop lovers.
The G20 was created to to be a mobile multimedia hub, and isboth a gamer's and graphic editor's delight, with it's crisp 17inch display, powerful 2.0GHz pentium M processor and 80GB harddrive. The new qosmio's elegant black chassis houses anintegrated tv tuner with remote control, and the loaded software- QosmioPlayer - allows instantaneous playback of DVD movies, orCDs/MP3s - that's right no need to boot up the laptop to watchthe latest blockbuster, or listen toaudio.
Music willsound great pumping out of the classy Harman Kardon speakers,located just above the keyboard, the G20 also offers television,audio and DVD/HDD recording cabability.....Bonus!
Weighing in at a solid 4.3 kg, the G20 isn't that portable, butthat's not it's strength. This laptop has been designed to sitstylishly in your lounge, and be an all in one tv, music systemand computer. Still if you decide to take this notebook on theroad, and want to hook up to the internet via a hotspot, theQosmio is wireless enabled, you also have Bluetooth forshort-distance connections to phones, and PDAs. Make sure youstay close to the mains power supply though, this laptops'sbattery life is only 2 hours.
Laptop gamer's needn't grumble, the G20 contains an NvidiaGeForce Go 6600 graphics chip with 128 MB of dedicated DDR VRAM.The G20 also features Toshiba's new RAID technology - RAID standsfor redundant array of independent disks. This tech allowssimultaneous data duplication, meaning everything on your harddrive will be mirrored, which is a great safeguard against harddrive crashes.
If jealous Davros orders a Dalek to disintegrate your harddrive, no problem, you always have your precious audio and videofiles backed up. However, you can also opt to disable thesecurity feature, and instead double the capacity of the harddrive, from 80GB to 160 GB.
So if you're a heavy multimedia user with a few grand to spare,or a minted hooray henry looking for the latest gadget to gracethe reading room of your Chelsea bachelor pad, the Qosmio G20could be for you.
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