OK – so the Games Convention in Leipzig is fully underway, and as computer fans descend upon Germany in their masses, it’s time to take a look at what delights are emerging. Expectations of mindblowing technology and gaming revelations are high, and while farplaner is enthralled about what Pro Evolution Soccer has to offer in 2009, twobrothersandasister are discovering new delights with Mad World on the Nintendo Wii.

And it’s exciting news for Toshiba too, who will be showcasing the powerful new Qosmio X300 gaming laptop (pictured), featuring the latest Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX9300 quad-core processor technology together with the new Gaming X20 optical laser mouse. For more information, the notebook is given a good going-over spec wise by both Crave and Pocket Lint who say this notebook offers a “sleek design aimed at gamers”.

Elsewhere, marketnews blog suggests that “Gamers will likely gravitate toward something like the Toshiba Qosmio X300 that can serve as the device for “fun” time as well as when it’s down to business” and invoid.org agrees, claiming the X300 is “built for gaming purists”. It’s due to be released in Europe towards the tail end of 2008, but for those who can’t wait that long – it can be seen at Toshiba booth B02, Hall 4, at the show, from 20^th to 24^th August 2008.

So if you want more news of Mii’s rocking out on Wiis, Far Cry II, and of course Toshiba’s newest gaming laptop - better head to Leipzig.

Vielleicht habt ihr ja schon das Interview von Ryan von mightygadget.com gesehen oder mal auf seinen Blog geschaut, jetzt hat er sein Versprechen war gemacht und noch viel mehr zum „Take A Closer Look“ Event geschrieben, zu dem wir ihn eingeladen hatten. Und wenn ich viel mehr sage dann meine ich auch VIEL mehr und das war anscheinend nur der erste Teil, der Zweite wird noch folgen.

Lass euch bitte nicht von der Länge des Artikels abschrecken, er schreibt -wie ich finde- auf er eine sehr unterhaltsame aber trotzdem fundierte Weise über die Evolution des Laptops und die ersten Tage auf dem Event. Wer das Interview gesehen hat weiß bestimmt das Ryan eher Englisch als Deutsch spricht, aber die Mühe lohnt sich. (Wenn ihr gar nicht klar kommt helfe ich auch gerne mit dem Übersetzten)

“Toshiba have drafted in some of the world’s top designers and engineers to redress this situation and are attempting to make PC laptops a more desirable accessory rather than just a plain-Jane necessity” says Ryan of mightygadget.com in his first post about the Toshiba Take a Closer Look event - and plenty more besides.

You see Ryan has written an epic stream of consciousness tale not only of what happened at the beginnings of the event itself, but his thoughts on the evolution of laptops, what they say about the individual and exactly what happened in Paris those hazy couple of days. Remember when laptops were first unleashed to the public? Ryan does – “They were hideous, they weighed more than a home PC, if you used it as marketed, on your lap, it was strongly suggested that if you were male not to bother as those things we all cherish as men would disagree and possibly drop off.”

Part 2 is still to come, but I strongly suggest that anyone looking for an amusing passage or two on the future of laptop design, and more specifically the place of Toshiba in these plans, should pop over here.