Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513 Impressions

Posted by Edwin Soto Categories: Home Entertainment, PC / Laptop

The Qosimo G25-AV513 notebook had every media lover at Pepcom’s Holiday Spectacular in awe. When you first look at it, you can’t help but love its sleek design. They were playing “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, which looked spectacular on its two lamp widescreen display, which was unbelievably sharp in contrast to the other notebooks sitting beside it.  I was impressed with how little glare there was when viewing the screen at an angle. Beautifully designed SRS TruSurround XT harman/kardon® stereo speakers stood alongside.  Even inside the incredibly loud atmosphere, you could still make out the dialogue in the movie. One feature that really stood out for me in particular was that you would never need to boot up the Windows Media Center OS to even start playing DVDs, CDs or, watch TV. Here are the full specs:

Qosmio G25-AV513 Product Specifications
Processor:
Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology featuring Intel Pentium® M Processor4 760 (2.00 GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache)
Display:
Toshiba Ultimate TruBrite™ 17-inch diagonal TFT display WXGA with 1440x900 native resolution; QosmioEngine for enhanced display
System Chipset:
Mobile Intel® 915PM Express Chipset
Graphics Controller:
NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 GO 6600 graphics6 with 128MB DDR SDRAM VRAM
Memory:
1024MB DDR2 SDRAM memory3
Hard Drive:
120GB using two 60GB SATA/5400 rpm hard disk drives2
Optical Drive:
Front slot-loading DVD SuperMulti Double Layer drive
Wireless:
Intel PRO/Wireless5 2200 ABG (802.11 a/b/g); Bluetooth® version 2.0+EDR
Ports:
4 USB 2.0, RGB, TV out (S-Video and Component via D-port Connector), AV IN (S-Video and Connector and Composite/Monitor/Line-IN), RJ-45 LAN port, RJ-11, i-Link®1394, S/PDIF Optical Audio Output
TV Tuner:
Integrated Toshiba TV Tuner (US/NTSC)
Input Devices/slots:
QosmioPlayer (instant-on CD/DVD/TV), Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition remote control with numeric keypad, keyboard, mouse
5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter (Secure Digital®, Memory Stick™, Memory Stick PRO™, Multi Media Card, xD Picture Card); PCMCIA PC Card slot
Battery:   
6-cell Lithium ion battery (4400 mAh)
Operating System:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Dimensions: 
15.98- x 11.22- x 1.93-inch
Weight: 
9.47 lbs.

If you want it, be prepared to drop $3,000.

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