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Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the battery-killers dept.

arcticstoat writes to mention that Toshiba's latest line of high-powered laptops has three GPUs included. Both the Qosmio X305-Q706 and Q708 come with an integrated GeForce 9400M for day-to-day processing tasks but have a pair of GeForce 9800Ms in SLI that kick in when you need the extra horsepower. "The [Qosmio] X305-Q706 costs $1,999 US (£1,257) in the US, although we haven't seen any UK pricing on the laptops yet. The system comes with a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo P8400 and 4GB of RAM, while the costlier X305-Q708 comes with a quad-core 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9300 CPU."

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  1. Portable Furnace by Brain_Recall · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it come with its own fire extinguisher?

    1. Re:Portable Furnace by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does it come with its own fire extinguisher?

      Actually no. But you can get that at the Autozone when you go to pick up the car battery you'll need.

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  2. ewww by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My, that's an ugly looking laptop. Here's hoping Toshiba (or someone else) makes something similar in a nicer looking body.

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  3. I see where this is going... by Frizzle+Fry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

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    1. Re:I see where this is going... by llamalicious · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The funny thing about that Onion piece, is the a couple years later Gillette really went and made a five-blade razor.

      Score one for the onion!

  4. The problem with desktop replacements by Piata · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone that is using a laptop as desktop replacement, I have to say it's great to be able to have so much portable power but it does have it's downsides:

    1. They tend to weigh a lot, making travel with it a bit of a pain and an annoyance for daily use in multiple locations.
    2. They tend to run extremely hot.
    3. They cost a lot more for the equivalent desktop hardware.
    4. Less upgradable.
    5. Nvidia doesn't update their mobile chipset drivers.

    My next computer will definitely be a desktop.

  5. Who needs battery life... by Wiarumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who needs battery life when you can play Fallout3 on the crapper!

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  6. bois not linux or vm friendly by sgt+scrub · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every Toshiba I have looked at, after finding out mine had this issue, has hvm disabled. Not "they use a bios that is not "Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled". Flat out disabled with no way of turning it on. Add to this the fact that every bios update for my laptop has made it more and more difficult to get Linux running properly. No sound? hack bios rebuild kernel and init. No fan for GPU? hack bios - rebuild kernel and init... I'm waiting for the bios that looks to see if I have nothing vista'ish on the drive and disables me turning it on.

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