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Toshiba Qosmio G30-102 - [hardware]
08:54 AM EST - Nov,24 2006 - post a comment

Trusted Reviews take a look at the Qosmio G30-102, Toshiba's top of the range all-in-one-multimedia notebook. Here's a taster:
The G30 is a big 'ol machine and at 4.8Kg it's actually heavier than the last version. The dimensions when closed are 406 x 285 x 43.1 mm - pretty big. It's chunkiness is its most noticeable dimension. It's only sensible to consider it as a permanent, or at least one rarely moved installation. Despite its bulk there's a very large external power supply trailing from the rear. Considering its size, the Toshiba is not surprisingly very imposing even when closed, with a very large silver lid with the Qosmio logo etched onto it. Open it up and you'll find a black brushed metal chassis round the keyboard with an array of buttons running across its top edge. The construction is actually less swish than the G20, which had the buttons as incorporated into the chassis itself and illuminated from underneath. It might not be as cool but the actual buttons are easier to use. The left button is the power switch and has the obligatory blue light surround. Next to this is one that launches Windows Media Center directly, while the one to the right launches the software that gives access to the G30's star attraction - the HD DVD drive.

All of this is powered by a Powerful Core 2 Duo processor - a T7200. This is two cores running at 2GHz with 4MB of Level 2 cache. Pretty impressive. There's a healthy 2GB of RAM supplied and also two hard discs - both 100GB. These are only 5,400rpm but didn't feel slow thanks to being set up in RAID 0 configuration. However, this does mean that you have two points of potential failure for your data. If you want more security you can set it up and RAID 1 mirroring but you'll halve your capacity.

Graphics are handled by a decent GeForce Go 7600. It doesn't qualify this as an all out gaming machine but you'll be able to play recent games, though you'll struggle to do so at the screen's native resolution. Software supplied includes Norton Internet Security, Microsoft Works and Microsoft One Note. Office is supplied only as a trial.

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