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Computing – Hi-Def Laptops
Toshiba
Microsoft announced at CES 2006 that they will support HD DVD on their Vista
operating system. Microsoft, Intel, and NEC are backing the HD DVD format.
Toshiba also announced March’s 2006
availability of the Qosmio notebook
with new Centrino Duo processor with
a HD DVD drive, CD/DVD multi-format
read/write capabilities, $3,000 price
range, 1080p screen, and HDMI
output.
May 06
Toshiba actually released the notebook
above as the Qosmio G35-AV650, 17-
inch display, resolution of 1,920 pixels by 1,200 pixels, plays back HD DVD, 2GHz
Core Duo processor from Intel, two 100GB hard drives with RAID (redundant array
of independent disks) support, 1GB of DDR2 memory, Nvidia's GeForce Go 7600 with
256MB of DDR3 memory, $3,000, 10.1 pounds, Microsoft's Windows Media Center
Edition 2005 operating system, no support for Intel's Viiv program on this system,
maybe on future releases, according to Toshiba.
CES 2007
Toshiba introduced the Qosmio G30/97A, an upgraded model of the existing Qosmio
G30 laptop computer, $3000 in Japan, TTM TBA but estimated 1Q07.
This is a new
Qosmio (left),
which not only
plays HD, but also burns custom HD DVDs.
Apr 07
Qosmio G40 (right), Intel Core 2 Duo T7300P CPU,
2GB of RAM, 512MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics,
dual 200GB HDD, HD DVD drive, HDMI 1.3, 17”
display 1920x1200, available in Europe in Jun 07 for
about 3000 Euro.
It features Intel 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor,
17-inch widescreen display 1920x1280, 4.8-kg,
320GB HDD, digital TV tuner, HDMI output.
The first notebook computer with HD DVD-R
optical drive that can burn up to 30 GB of data,
video, photo, music onto a single HD DVD
recordable disc, as well as playing HD DVD
movies, featuring Microsoft Windows Vista
Ultimate operating system, HDTV tuner, digital
video recorder.
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