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New Toshiba Qosmio Slightly Smaller |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
Toshiba has announced a 15.4-inch Qosmio, the F45-AV412 with a starting price less than US$1700. The new Piano white notebook feautres a HD DVD-ROM drive, cutting-edge
Dolby surround
sound technology through Harmon Kardon speakers, Draft-N Wi-Fi and 1080i display capability.
Toshiba's Qosmio range is designed to deliver the ultimate in visual and audio entertainment in a portable laptop device. Built around a 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen
with TruBrite display, users can either view content on the device or connect the Qosmio's
HDMI port to a High Definition TV to expand the functionality of their
home entertainment center.
Once connected to an HDTV, the Qosmio F45 can
deliver a 1080i movie with all of the quality users expect from HD DVD.
"As the newest member of Toshiba's
premier multimedia series, the Qosmio F45-AV412 is a remarkable machine
in terms of putting high definition and multimedia capabilities into
people's hands,"
said Jeff Barney, vice president of marketing, Digital Products
Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.
"You
really can't understand what mobile
entertainment has to offer until you have experienced the quality
provided by the Qosmio F45."
The laptop has two
Harman Kardon
Bass Reflex stereo speakers, a built-in subwoofer and Dolby Home Theater
technology. THe speaker configuration is designed to deliver Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Pro Logic
II, Dolby Headphone and Dolby Virtual Speaker for aking the most of digital content such as music, movies and
games.
With draft 802.11n wireless
networking at up to five times
faster than 802.11g Wi-Fi the new Qosmio can download large files, such movies and
television shows in a fraction of the time.
  
The configuration below is just a sample specification for a Qosmio F45-AV412 priced at US$1,649.99.
- Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit version)
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7100
- 1.80 GHz, 2MB L2, 800MHz FSB with 64-bit
- 2048MB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory
- Maximum capacity 4096MB
- 250GB (4200 RPM); Serial-ATA hard disk drive
- HD DVD-ROM/DVD SuperMulti (+/- double layer) drive supporting 12 formats
- 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen TruBrite display
- 1280x800 native resolution (WXGA)
- Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 8MB-256MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory
- Two built-in Harman Kardon stereo speakers with subwoofer
- Integrated Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (802.11a/g/n)
- Embedded Webcam and microphone
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