Extend your 3D games and video editing with incredibly fast frame rates, with the Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q880 gaming laptop, which has a unique high-resolution 18.4-inch monitor and the Toshiba laptop gaming performance by Intel Core i5 processor with dual-core processing power. Addition, gaming laptop provides ultra-fast DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M graphics card with 1GB of graphics memory GDDR5. Together, this pair of powerful technologies enable allow you to rip through the latest 3D games at lightning-fast frame-rates or create high-definition video and audio faster and more efficiently with smooth rendering and encoding.
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The Toshiba delivers Qosmio X505 the best laptop for gaming, with its stunning fusion of omega-black finish with chrome accents elegant red and full keyboard with ease LED backlight and numeric10-keypad. A touch pad with intuitive multi-touch allows for greater flexibility and control of what happens on the screen with gesture controls – including two finger pinch, drag, rotate and swipe.
Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q860 gaming laptop pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system (32-bit version), you’ll be able to easily create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. Windows 7 is the easiest, fastest, and most engaging version of Windows yet. Better ways to find and manage files, like Jump Lists and improved taskbar previews, help you speed through everyday tasks. Windows 7 is designed for faster and more reliable performance, so your PC just works the way you want it to.
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Some of Customer Reviews Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q860 TruBrite 18.4-Inch Gaming Laptop (Black\Red)
By Isaac E. Schwoch (St. Paul, MN United States)
I purchased this laptop as a desktop replacement and I use it for gaming, watching movies, writing software, and basic Microsoft Office and web browsing tasks. Overall I am extremely pleased with it and would highly recommend it to others. Here’s the breakdown:
PROS:
- This is an extremely fast machine. It boots up in under a minute with Windows 7 and I have yet to notice the occasional lag with starting up programs that I experience with most Windows PC’s.
- Newer games like “Dragon Age: Origins” run extremely well on this machine with all of the graphics maxed out
- The screen on this computer is beautiful. The color quality and contrast are extremely good and there is a ton of screen real estate. Some people have complained that it isn’t full 1080p but I find that the 1680×945 resolution makes icons and text the perfect size for this size of screen.
- Multitasking works great with a dual-core processor (four virtual cores with hyperthreading) and 4GB of DDR3 RAM. I routinely have 12 Firefox tabs up while watching videos in iTunes and editing four or five MS Office documents. A lot of computers don’t like this but the Q860 handles it wonderfully.
- The battery life is over three hours, which is pretty good for such a behemoth.
CONS:
- This is an extremely heavy laptop and I wouldn’t recommend it for frequent business travel. That being said, I do use this laptop for grad school and haul it back and forth to class one day a week using a Toshiba 18″ gaming backpack and it isn’t terrible on my back. I would definitely recommend a backpack if you want to carry this thing around as a normal laptop shoulder bag would probably destroy your neck and shoulder.
- Both Toshiba and Amazon claim on their websites that this keyboard is backlit but unfortunately, it isn’t. Amazon customer service handled this issue extremely well after I reported it, so I can’t complain about this too much. All X505-series keyboards are compatible so you can probably pick up a backlit one off of eBay if that’s a big deal to you.
- There is a decent amount of junkware pre-installed on this system, although not nearly as much as on the last Dell computer I bought. It’s kind of annoying that Toshiba does this on a high-performance computer that will probably be purchased by people that don’t want or need it.
OVERALL:
- I did a large amount of research before buying this laptop and as of this moment, there isn’t a better value out there in gaming laptops than this. It lacks some of the higher-end features such as dual graphics cards, a 1080p display, and solid-state drives, but for the money you can’t do better than this. I am now selling both of my desktops and I plan on making this my sole computer.
By Charles Zwilling “CZ” (NORTH BERGEN, NJ USA)
AT 10 pounds, it is a bit much to lug around, except within the home, but otherwise this machine is a beauty. Lightning quick, great sound and video quality. Handles any and all applications, videos etc wonderfully.
I use with a wireless mouse. Has plenty of ports and capability to expand. Wireless connection in seconds
Negatives: The DVD drive is a bit touchy to close (need to hold it in..not automatic close)and the keyboard area surface is shiny/high gloss, so you have fingerprints everywhere.
Battery life seems to be at least 3-4 hours (have not had it long enough to check it out.
I have a notebook for travel, so this machine fills the bill for me.
By Jason (Florida)
Pros
-Size is AMAZING (could also be a con, due to lack of case selection available)
-Speed – The Core i5 430M (2.26) with Turbo Boost is nice, outperforms my Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4).
-RAM – 4GB DDR3 is expandable to 8GB.
-Graphics – The GeForce GTS 330M GDDR5 1GB is an excellent mobile video card.
Cons
-No restore discs shipped with the system.
-No back-lit keyboard
-No Bluetooth
-Screen is too reflective, very hard to sit on my shaded porch and see the screen.
-Touchpad seems a little choppy. But I use my A4Tech mouse 95% of the time anyway.
All non-issues to be honest, but some people might find these a problem
Other
-The glossy finish is a fingerprint magnet.
-The media keys are a little irritating, I just disabled them, no biggie.
-I did a LOT of research before I chose this. My next choice would have been an Alienware M17x, but this is a much better buy.
All in all, this is a magnificent system, Excellent cost to performance. You wont find a better gaming system at this price.
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