Mike Bantick
Friday, 26 September 2008 13:49
Opinion and Analysis
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While most manufacturers are smothering the market with ASUS Eee PC clones, Toshiba has released a new big-is-beautiful Qosmio. The X300 is aimed at the affluent gamer on the go.
PC gamers are always looking for that extra technological boost. The games themselves are always cutting edge, pushing the boundaries of affordable hardware at the time, sometimes being released to market ahead of the technology curve.
Unlike the console market, PC rigs are as varied as the people that put them together. Their requirements and means are equally as varied, so it is sometimes surprising when a manufacturer comes out with a niche product.
Such is the case with the new Toshiba Qosmio laptop, the X300. This is an outlandishly designed piece of technology, targeting a specific demographic – the well healed extrovert gamer on the go.
At 412mm X 306mm X 62.4mm and 4.16 kg the Qosmio X300 could easily be nicknamed the Quasimodo X300 for its back-hump inducing heft if it needs to be carted around much.
The good news is that the X300 is not for your sales road warrior or support tech, this “laptop” is, as mentioned earlier, aimed at a niche market, those folks you see from time to time humping around even larger desktops as they travel to LAN gaming parties.
Lug the X300 to your next LAN event, and watch the crowds gather. The Matchbox Hot Wheels look of red on red flames, red LED illuminated keyboard surrounds and glossy black keyboard will attract the easily distracted like moths to an erupting volcano.
Once the 17” 1680 X 1050 screen is fired up, Windows Vista Ultimate loaded and game installed though, you are going to need more that a bunch of LED’s to get some LAN cred.
