07-22-2004, 10:00 PM
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Toshiba's New Media Center
"Toshiba's Digital Products Division has announced the launch of the new Qosmio (pronounced "koss-mee-oh") brand of AV notebook PCs. Toshiba's Qosmio is an integrated, mobile personal entertainment and computing device that offers users a unique "four-in-one" experience with TV, audio, DVD recorder and PC functionality. The announcement of the new Qosmio series represents a significant milestone in Toshiba's global strategy to lead the digital convergence space and meet the rising demand for easy-to-use, personal entertainment solutions." This new Qosmio E15-AV101 notebook is definitely an innovative product and features a nice 15" screen though future versions will have wide-screen displays of up to 17-inches. The notebook comes standard with a built-in TV tuner, DVR capabilities and a high-quality QosmioEngine that enables increased video and graphics performance. It also includes SRS WOW & TruSurround XT technology and large harman/kardon stereo speaker. It also comes with Intel Pentium M Processor 735 (1.70GHz, 2MB L2 cache) 512MB RAM (which you will presumably upgrade) and 80GB drive and tons of USB 2 ports + integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. One concern - it only supports a 1024x768 resolution and while that is great for TV quality viewing, it is a bit low for just plain old laptop usage. The other concern is that while the specs on the laptop are great, Windows MCE typically requires a >2.5GHz processor to work well. Like I have mentioned before, when I installed MCE on a <2GHz machine with 512MB RAM, it basically crawled. So we will have to wait for benchmarks to see how it performs. Anyways, it will be available for $2699 which seems like a really good price for a laptop loaded with such goodies. Nice.
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07-22-2004, 10:04 PM
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Oracle
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Re: Toshiba's New Media Center
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Originally Posted by Suhit Gupta
when I installed MCE on a <2GHz machine with 512MB RAM, it basically crawled.
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Do you have MSDN account? How'd you get your hands on a MCE disc? I am dying for one!! |
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07-22-2004, 11:14 PM
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Pupil
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Re: Toshiba's New Media Center
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Originally Posted by Suhit Gupta
"The other concern is that while the specs on the laptop are great, Windows MCE typically requires a >2.5GHz processor to work well.
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Just remember that this is a Pentium M. I really don't know about video performance, but shouldn't a 1.7M blow a P4 2.5 Ghz out of the water? (I'm not a big hardware guy, I don't know the comparison.) All I know is I've got a Dell laptop at work with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz that just kills the P4 2 Ghz desktop my co-worker uses. We have a Perl script that converts the format of data files we've been using - 26 million data points to convert. Takes 25 minutes on the desktop, 6 minutes of the laptop. |
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07-23-2004, 12:14 AM
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Mystic
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What's with the crazy name? Qosmio doesn't really roll of the tounge.
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07-23-2004, 12:45 AM
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Re: Toshiba's New Media Center
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Originally Posted by entropy1980
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Originally Posted by Suhit Gupta
when I installed MCE on a <2GHz machine with 512MB RAM, it basically crawled.
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Do you have MSDN account? How'd you get your hands on a MCE disc? I am dying for one!! |
Yeah, I got it through MSDN.
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07-23-2004, 12:47 AM
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Re: Toshiba's New Media Center
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Originally Posted by Schade
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Originally Posted by Suhit Gupta
"The other concern is that while the specs on the laptop are great, Windows MCE typically requires a >2.5GHz processor to work well.
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Just remember that this is a Pentium M. I really don't know about video performance, but shouldn't a 1.7M blow a P4 2.5 Ghz out of the water? (I'm not a big hardware guy, I don't know the comparison.) All I know is I've got a Dell laptop at work with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz that just kills the P4 2 Ghz desktop my co-worker uses. We have a Perl script that converts the format of data files we've been using - 26 million data points to convert. Takes 25 minutes on the desktop, 6 minutes of the laptop. |
The Pentium is definitely wicked fast. It is just that I have been jaded since my last MCE install. I will be trying it again soon though on a more beefy machine. So let's see how that works out.
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07-23-2004, 01:06 AM
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Mystic
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Re: Toshiba's New Media Center
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Originally Posted by Suhit Gupta
Yeah, I got it through MSDN.
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Now would you (legaly) be able to share that with some one (me)? |
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07-23-2004, 01:18 AM
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Re: Toshiba's New Media Center
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Originally Posted by dean_shan
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Yeah, I got it through MSDN.
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Now would you (legaly) be able to share that with some one (me)? |
Sorry no. Well, unless you are studying/working here at Columbia University? But I am guessing that that is a long commute. ;-)
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07-23-2004, 03:07 AM
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Mystic
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Re: Toshiba's New Media Center
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Originally Posted by Suhit Gupta
Sorry no. Well, unless you are studying/working here at Columbia University? But I am guessing that that is a long commute. ;-)
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That's what I thought. Doesn't hurt to ask though. |
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