subject: Toshiba X500 Video Notebook Review [print this page] Because of my work, I have most of my friends are typical otaku + IT digital control, they have a remarkable feature: digital products in the IT spending on the never mean, as long as the hand with extra spare cash, always wanted to repairing their own point of new stuff. But recently the situation changed a bit, the group of friends want to buy one at the end of Entertainment Notebook PC to meet the needs of multimedia applications in the home. The reason why this demand, communicate with them from day to day I found that high-definition, Blu-ray, 3D and other terms in their conversations in the frequency of very large, smooth playback of high definition audio and video files has become an important factor in their choice of notebook .
There is a market demand for natural, many laptops have a pretty good multimedia features, for example, we tested this Toshiba Qosmio X500, it has a consumer notebook 1920 1080 maximum resolution 18.4-inch screen, and with high-end Harman Kardon sound system, whether visual or auditory enjoy all belong to the breadth of the leader. Toshiba Qosmio X500 competent multimedia needs of most families, it provides 1.5GB of video memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX460M graphics card, built-in up to 500GB of hard disk storage space, the most important is the use of the Sandy Bridge quad-core eight thread processors - -i7-2630QM, performance can be said to have reached an extreme and sensual.
Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R: Core Performance
Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R uses a just-released Sandy Bridge processor, and is positioned in the high-end quad-core processor i7-2630QM eight threads, with 6MB of L3 cache. Compared to the first generation of Core i series processors, the second generation of Core i series processor in the user experience on the major upgrade of the three points: 1.32nm process technology, bringing improved performance and lower power consumption; 2 fusion performance was comparable to entry-level single GPU, the video encoding / decoding capacity; 3 Turbo Boost 2.0 technology, demand for performance tuning.
The first generation of Core i series processor supports Turbo technology, in the second generation of Core i series processors can be raised again, to increase the limit Core frequent rate ", and the previous generation Core acceleration technology only" Core frequency range. " , the new Core acceleration in case of power does not increase the overall performance with a higher increase, especially in the face of single-task processing, it will soared to the highest of the "Core frequent rate limit", give the user more comfortable operating experience.
To match the processor chipset, HM6 series completely replace the previous 5 Series, the new Intel chipset is built to meet the second generation graphics processing units and introduction of Core Duo processor, the processor can provide full support ( not compatible with first generation Core Duo processor). With the latest version of CPU-Z test, found that the software does not clearly show the true chipset information, later versions should resolve this issue.
Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R: audio and video capabilities
As a result of a 18.4-inch screen, the Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R of the weight of 4.69 kg, so it does not apply to mobile computing, which we also see the Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R positioning of the target group is those who seek performance and multimedia performance ability of the user. That performance, in addition to the core processor, I am afraid the rest of the user concerned with graphics, NVIDIA GeForce GTX460M outstanding performance gives users a smooth experience on the game.
After all, only part of the game entertainment, Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R is also reflected in the outstanding multimedia performance. I will not speak 18.4 inches screen with high definition graphics bring your vision of how shock, with its high-end audio - Harman Kardon, stunning 7.1 audio support with high-power speakers or 3D sound chip, audio-visual enjoyment but also on other consumer notebooks can not.
Alone by the high-end audio and video hardware to support Toshiba advocated the concept of home media center is clearly not enough, this Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R specifically placed in the left side of keyboard multimedia control module. In order to further enhance the user's operating experience, the control module with a touch of multimedia design, its manipulation for the user providing a lot of convenience; in cooperation with the provided software, open audio and video playback, mute and other operations becomes a more direct and immediate.
As a main audio and video entertainment terminal, TOSHIBA QOSMIO X500-10T battery also deal with a variety of digital devices take up the responsibility of different interfaces. Its not only with the current mainstream eSATA, HDMI interface, and generally we are not used to the IEEE 1394 FireWire port, Mini PCI-E slot it is also readily available. Moreover, the large body makes a reasonable distance of the interface, even if the digital peripheral heavily armed is not the slightest pressure.
Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R: ease of manipulation
Gains will lose, biased in favor of portability will be designed to light the corresponding loss of a certain operator comfort, performance and larger size of the mobile portability is lost, but the large volume brought about by the full keyboard , large-screen experience is a good field of vision, and many can not match the light of this, these advantages embodied in the Toshiba Qosmio X500 is particularly prominent.
In addition to the left of the keyboard touch multimedia keys, the Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R is also equipped with a numeric keypad on the right, the user enter a number or quickly set up in the game when the individual will be more convenient shortcut keys, in addition, with the key moderate dark chocolate key process design, the Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R also has a desktop-like operating experience.
Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R in the details part of the design is quite hard, its purpose is to give users the best operating experience. In addition to the left of the keyboard touch multimedia keys, users can also Fn + keyboard shortcut keys for simple system control. The control TOSHIBA QOSMIO X505-Q885 battery is the case of letters and numbers on the keypad lights are also in the corresponding position.
Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R is not suitable for heavy body always moving, taking into account fixed and most of the time and use an external mouse, the touchpad is not as large area of the point of exaggeration, and the matte surface of the design operation it is relatively comfortable. Fingerprint reader to join, so the main entertainment Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R in the premise of ensuring data security, arises spontaneously as a serious stable meaning.
I believe that when using the keyboard, each person will appear touchpad inadvertently situation, whether it is being conducted to fill the gap of the text input or hearty battle in the game, this phenomenon is annoying. Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R more user-friendly design at the top of the touch panel with an intuitive on / off shortcut keys, and then prompts the user linear LED touchpad on or not.
Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R: thermal control
Is that users have been concerned about the heat problem! From the Fang Dongzhi Qosmio X500-01R measured heat map you can see, the entire eight-hour testing process down the keyboard zone temperature control is quite good. Control from the user experience standpoint, TOSHIBA QOSMIO X500-116 battery long run large-scale stand-alone 3D games will not overheat, while the whole performance here is absolutely assured.
In addition, the user is cautioned that Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 technology together with the rules of power sharing, both processor performance and can also adjust the temperature monitoring machine performance. Heat and power is good performance, but once the whole heat sink temperature exceeded, the performance will have greatly reduced. In other words, the processor in the Core has been frequently on the rate of progress, but the cooling performance in restricting performance but ignored the OEM manufacturers have higher requirements, bore the brunt of the cooling module and model mold design.
Summary
Testing can also be seen by Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R This product is currently capable of almost any application, with any other products are unable to provide multimedia performance capabilities, the screen is also very outstanding performance even more impeccable!
If the user so naturally I was happy to put this one at home, but look at the price before the G50, I believe Toshiba Qosmio X500-01R has an estimated potential of over a million (no new price), for ordinary users is definitely not cheap, but for their application and design, this price is in line with the market.
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