Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR

Patik writes "Toshiba has unveiled a new laptop, Qosmio, that allows users to watch TV or a DVD without booting the OS. The laptop turns on instantly for these functions and has a 15" near-TV quality screen. To use DVR functions like time shifting and recording, the user must boot the Windows Media Center OS."

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Re:Why widescreen laptops?

[peter_gzowski]

I like widescreen because I use programs that have summaries on the left-hand side, and sometimes a different summary on the right-hand side. I'm always shifting the window width in Eclipse to either see my project summary (left), or my class summary (right). I also use a latex program that gives me a document outline on the left. I'm also using the document map in Word all the time, which is a left-hand side summary of your document. I don't actually think this is the reason laptops are going wide screen (that's probably because people use them to play movies, and that it looks cool), but that's the reason I like it.