Toshiba Qosmio X775: Toshiba's Gamer Grows Up
by Dustin Sklavos on August 17, 2011 12:25 AM ESTThat Old Familiar (Terrible) Screen
Stop me if this sounds familiar: 17.3" TN panel screen, 1600x900 resolution, with mediocre viewing angles, poor contrast, accuracy, and gamut. In fact, this is the same model panel we just tested in the Toshiba L775D, a fact that actually bothers me more knowing this Qosmio costs twice as much. You can get a Qosmio X775 with a 1080p screen (120Hz no less!), but you'll pay $1,899 for the privilege of buying the top of the line model which comes with a built-in emitter for NVIDIA 3D Vision.
The results pretty much line up with the other Toshiba notebook: this is still a stunningly mediocre TN panel. In the case of the Qosmio X775, though, Toshiba seems to have made a trade-off: the backlight is more intense, for better or worse. As a result, the contrast ratio remains about the same, but the whites are brighter...and so are the blacks.
Viewing angles are the same as they ever were, with the screen washing out pretty quickly. This is a part of my major problem with these crappy TN panels, their lack of ability to do so much as produce a single uniform picture. Hopefully with eIPS being reasonably cheap to produce and running wild on the desktop space, we'll start to see better quality panels becoming more common in notebooks.
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SlyNine1 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
"...the clock has gone up 100MHz to 775MHz..."You mean 675 to 775.
Just trying to help out my favorit review site. Thanks for the great reviews and keep up the good work!
SlyNine1 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Never mind. My bad lol.danjw - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
No SSD option, plus an extra pound to get a decent resolution display. 2 hard drives? What a waste. My question is are the hard drives user replaceable? So I could pull out the dead wait and install an SSD?danjw - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
err, dead weight.JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Yes, you can swap the HDD out. Also, since the HM65 doesn't support RAID, that at least means you don't need to worry about doing a RAID0 to non-RAID downgrade first (a problem I've encountered on some MSI models).rallstarz - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Any word when your review of the Mythlogic laptops is coming out? Thanks!JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Writing as we speak... hope to be up by Friday.rallstarz - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Great! Thanks! Looking forward to it.Solidstate89 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Although it's not a gaming laptop, is there any chance of you guys doing a review of the new Dell Precision notebooks? Especially with the option of the IPS panel on the 15" M4600.Heck, I've got the TN panel version and its black levels are at least as good as the E-IPS monitor I use for my desktop. I figure it's a perfect way for you to get over all these disappointing screens Dustin, by reviewing a laptop with a good one ;)
Hrel - Thursday, August 18, 2011 - link
I can't even start to consider this with that screen. I kind of understand skimping on lower end laptops, under 700 bucks. Even under 1000 to a certain degree. But this is among the worste 900p screen I've ever seen. Most of the time I consider 900p to be "good enough". On a 1300+ 17" laptop though... Whatever screen Clevo is using, is the minimum I expect.GTX560M is fine for a 15.6" laptop, I get it, heat constraints. But I expect more in a 17" laptop. From my perspective 17" is too big to be something you carry around everywhere anyway. So it's probably acting as a desktop replacement. Which means it needs to be able to play every current game at 1080p at max settings at over 60fps. Idk, maybe that can't be done for 1500 or less yet on laptops; but I'd never consider getting a desktop replacement if it can't be.
The other thing I consider required is 2+ hdd bays and 4 RAM slots. Again, it can be done in 15" models, 17" should be a piece of cake.
Fuck Blu Ray; that is all.