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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Jonahkirk - Thursday, August 18, 2011 - link
When I first saw the New Qosmio, I thought "at last, a notebook for me!" But, I thought i was looking at aluminum, not plastic, and no 1080p is a sinker in a high price notebook. I would love to be able to self configure these with a 1080p screen, a proc. upgrade and SSD\hardrive combo. But, I want aluminum-that would be cool.qstechwriter - Friday, August 19, 2011 - link
You can adjust backlight setting to: OFF, 1 sec, and ON. Press the Fn key, press Z, and make your selection.The0ne - Friday, August 19, 2011 - link
17.3" LED Glossy 16:9 1600x900I don't think the laptop will ever be a consideration for either gaming or office work.
JNo - Friday, August 19, 2011 - link
What is it with larger laptops with 2 drive bays always going for a 2x HDD configuration?! (also Alienware are guilty of this). Surely people want an SSD for boot & speed and a traditional HDD for storage, even, or especially, on a laptop.I don't know why laptop manufacturers are so dumb and slow to coming round to implementing this configuration and making it mainstream, especially now that the new mSATA standard is out.
oraclelaw - Saturday, August 20, 2011 - link
well lets see, the G73 w the 460m pulls down a 3dmark11 of 1800 something?the Qosimo with the gtx560m pulls down a 2005?
what do they cost? 1500-1700 US?
well my fully equipped (including blu-ray) overclocked AND undervolted $750.00 HP Dv6z with amd's LLano chip, pulls a 3dmark11 of p2110 with a graphics score of just under 2200...at much cooler temps.
Maybe I should buy another to even things up...LOL. .Time for the 'i' series boxxes to start coming down in price.
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