| Home : September 23 2013 Computer News : Toshiba Qosmio X75 A7298 review: A desktop replacement that won’t break the bank—or your back |
|
Toshiba Qosmio X75 A7298 review: A desktop replacement that won’t break the bank—or your back |
September 23, 2013
Most manufacturers throw weight considerations out the window when they set about designing a desktop-replacement notebook. Not Toshiba’s engineers. Despite packing a 256GB SSD plus a 1TB hybrid hard drive, an Blu-ray burner (not just a player), Nvidia’s second-fastest mobile GPU, and a 17.3-inch high-res display, the Qosmio X75 A7298 weighs a modest 7.3 pounds.
It might sound odd to classify 7.3 pounds as modest. After all, the Qosmio won’t even fit in some laptop bags. But considering that this laptop can play games, create and edit digital media, and handle pretty much any other task you’d normally rely on a desktop computer to perform, a 7.3-pound weight is pretty remarkable. After all, how easy would it be to lug a desktop PC, a 17-inch monitor, and an uninterruptible power supply from location to location?
Robert CardinToshiba packs desktop performance into a highly mobile form factor. (Click to enlarge.)
Intel’s Core i7-4700MQ, a quad-core mobile CPU, forms the Qosmio's heart. It’s paired with 16GB of DDR3/1600 memory and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 770M mobile graphics processor (which has 3GB of GDDR5 memory all its own). A dedicated GPU is great for playing hard-core games, but it will also speed other tasks.
Demanding applications such as Photoshop, for instance, will tap the hundreds of microprocessor cores inside the GeForce chip to accelerate image processing. In the GPU-accelerated image-processing segment of our Notebook Worldbench 8.1 suite, the Qosmio required just over 60 seconds to complete a task that took Lenovo’s IdeaPad U430 Touch—which relies on integrated graphics—more than 5 minutes to finish.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049140/toshiba-qosmio-x75-a7298-review-a-desktop-replacement-that-won-t-break-the-bank-or-your-back.html#tk.rss_reviews
|
|
|
|
|
