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I just have to briefly review this laptop to put some of the bad reviews at bay. I just got this baby yesterday and it has blown me away. The screen is brilliant, the speed is unreal, and the 3D is awesome. Even the speakers are top notch. I'll gush more about it later, first I want to let future buyers know the few minor quirks:
Yes, the secondary hard drive makes a small clicking noise. However, what you will want to do ANYWAY when buying such a rig, is replace the PRIMARY hard drive slot with a solid state drive (I used a 240GB Intel 520). THEN, put the original primary drive (the hybrid one) in the secondary slot. Now, enjoy face-melting mind-bending speeds without any clicking noise. Now your boot time is maybe 10 seconds with a fresh windows 8 install.
Yes, battery life is very short. It is not unexpected with such a powerhouse of a computer. If you need to go more than probably 2 hours without an outlet, this beast is not for you. This is not an ultra-portable machine. It falls more in the desktop-replacement category.
Yes, you can watch your 3D movies (even MKVs) with this laptop. You will probably want to follow a brief tutorial (google iradar mkv 3d nvidia) on using an application called Stereoscopic Player. Choose "Sensio" in Layout settings and "NVIDIA 3d Vision" in playback methods. Make the video full screen with your glasses on and enjoy. Nvidia also offers an application to play 3d video.
I will update this review with any other notable findings that have not been mentioned by other reviewers.
UPDATE 1: I have been casually using the laptop for a couple weeks now. I want to note a couple cool things. The "Qosmio" on the back of the screen glows red in the dark which I JUST noticed. The screen is REALLY bright. On maximum brightness, it is brighter than my 58" plasma TV which is on vivid setting. The laptop has not gotten hot like I thought it might, even after hours of watching 3D video. However, I have not tested the temperature with intensive gaming which could produce different results.
I think it is important for future buyers to really consider the size of the laptop, as well as the massive charger when considering this machine. It is considerably heavier than the average laptop, weighing in at 7.5 lbs. You will almost certainly need to carry the charger as well, so add another 2 lbs. More to come later.
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I got the Qosmio laptop. Few weeks back, and I'm quite impressed with it. Its pretty damn fast when its starts up and takes you straight into the main menu where you can select what you an to do. I always been a fan of Nvidia graphics, and playing the high-end games like Crisis 3 on it doesn't pose any issue on the unit. It'll get hot while running games like that mainly because of all four processors are running. But if you want to keep it cool, I suggest buying a cool in pad designed for gaming laptops. These things deffinately do a god job sucking that hot air out from beneath it. I would choose this gamin g platform over Alienwhare anytime.Best Deals for Toshiba Qosmio X875-Q7390 17.3-Inch 3D Laptop (Black Widow Styling
I was a little hesitant about buying this laptop at first. $1,600 is a lot of money. Also no matter where I looked on the web I couldn't find many reviews about the laptop. So now that I've had it for 3 months let me tell you some things about it. (there is no rhyme or reason to the layout)1. Nothing has broken or gone wrong, other people were complaining that thiers broke in a day and blah blah. But mine is just fine.
2. Yes, the battery life is only 2 hours when playing a game without have the charger plugged in, but everyone who buys a gaming laptop accepts that fact.
3. It plays just about anygame on high graphics that I want it too. But if your thinking of buying this laptop be warned that it does not run filters such as FXAA and anti-aliasing that greatly. I mean, you can turn all the filters on a game such as skyrim on and turn the graphics to ultra. However you will be getting roughly 25-30 fps. But I've found that across all games if I leave the filters off but dial the graphics up they run 45 fps or over depending on the game and still look beautiful.
4. the list of games I play and the roughly estimated average fps I get: Minecraft-150-200 fps, Skyrim-45-60fps, borderlands 2-35-45 fps, chivalry medieval warfare-45-60 fps, planetside 2-35-45 fps, Black Ops 2: 45-55fps, GTA IV-35-45 fps, DayZ Mod-40-55fps, etc. I play many more games than that, those are just some of the more graphically demanding games. All games were set to high graphics with low or no filters
5. Windows 8 is just as good (better in my opinion) than wnidows 7. its much (much much) faster on start up. Like from opening the lid of the laptop to getting into the desktop takes about 2 seconds. including typing in a PIN. Also whoever says this isn't a gaming laptop because of windows 8 is lying. Software doesn't matter. It's all about the hardware.
6. I bought this laptop because my old dell inspiron something something fizzled out on me and I wanted to get a gaming laptop for college. I love it. Just don't be expecting to lug it to class every day if you get one because it is monstrous. Although I personally like bringing it to class to put everyone else's MacBook Pro to shame (Mac's suck)
7. I would suggest buying a cooling pad to put underneath it because it does get HOT. I went with the cooler master X3 because it had a bigger fan than the X2 even though the X2 had better reviews. The X3 is perfect and gets the job done well. My normal CPU tempt in games is about 67-70 Celsius and same with my GPU.
8. Be warned that even though it says 3GB gtx 670m in the description, IT WILL NOT PERFORM LIKE THE DESKTOP GTX 670. The gtx 670 plays skyrim at 100+ fps with filters and all on full. the gtx 670m (laptop version) WILL NOT DO THAT. With that being said, it is still an excellent graphics card.
9. The 2 TB of HDD space is lovely, I've alrdy used about 500gb of space on mine... I have a lot of games.
10. If you purchase one be sure to update the GPU driver and you will get better performance.
All in all it is a perfect gaming laptop. It's well priced compared to other laptops *ahem AlienWare*, built out of sturdy aluminum, or aluminium if your British, runs everything I want it to beautifully, It really is the Bee's Knee's. Just keep in mind that for this kind of money you can build an epic desktop that could play cryisis 3 on full 1080p graphics and what not. think of this as a $1200 desktop that you payed an extra $400 to have put into laptop form. Really, that's where most of the money is going, to make everything function very well at 1/3 it's intended size. With that being said this laptop is the ultimate LAN party machine because it has incredibly good graphics and you can pick up from your desk, pop it in your back pack, go on down to your friend Larry's house and set it back up with ease... Then chop his head off in Chivalry medieval warfare :D
5 out of 5... It is a seriously good gaming laptop for the money
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This was my 5th Toshiba Laptop between me and my family but will definitely be my last. Bought it customized from Toshiba Direct. It worked for about a month, and failed. They directed me to take it personally to their authorized service center for fastest service. It sat for a month waiting for a part that didn't fix it and now they are waiting for a new hard drive that they estimate will take 6 WEEKS to deliver. When I called support they told me that it would be faster if I go pick it up and mail it back to them (with no commitment on what "faster" means). They offer no explanation of why it would take 6 weeks for a new hard-drive. Also the warranty continues to expire while the unit sits in their hands. (It is warranted from purchase date only)I asked for my money back. After 2 weeks they come back with an offer of store credit to Toshiba Direct because they don't give refunds. They only want to credit the purchase price so I would need to eat about $200 in sales tax and shipping on the original and another $200 when I use my credit. They explained to me that this was a great favor as they were not depreciated the value of the computer for the one month that I was apparently honored to have it work for me.
So the only choice I get from Toshiba are take a credit and get another Toshiba craptop eating the shipping and tax charges 2 twice or wait until they fix the one I have with no guarantee of how long it will take while my warranty ticks away.
Here are some other fun facts they won't give me anything in writing about my options won't send me an email. You also can't send them emails. Strikes me a little odd a computer company won't take an email. Nothing in writing appears to be their policy.
UPDATE Response to Toshiba's comment:
Regarding Toshiba's response to this review writing a review is what got their attention. They have someone who has the job to read these reviews. The resolution was they figured out how to get a hard disk and the computer was repaired after they read this review.
To be clear I still will not buy another Toshiba nor would I recommend buying one.
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I bought this computer because I wanted a 17" with 3D capability and blu-ray viewing. To me it seemed like Toshiba has some of the strongest processor specs for a good price. I like to keep a laptop for 4 5 years so I did not want some underpowered processor which becomes obselete quickly. I looked at Dell and HP and settled on this unit.The first unit I bought directly from Toshiba. This one was defective because the 3D did not function properly. Toshiba online direct support diagnosed a defective graphics card so I returned the unit. Now I am leery of Toshiba quality because I had bought the predecessor of this computer in 8/12 (the q7290), and this also was completely defective. Despite 2 duds I wanted to buy a Toshiba for the processor (i7 3630, price, blu-ray, and 3D. I could not find another major manufacturer offering all of this. I also liked the Toshiba website because to me it seems much clearer in terms of the specs of the computer and other details.
From my standpoint I am happy with this computer. It starts very quickly from the sleep mode (
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