Just a quick one for Friday, and an interesting experiment from BrambleH, who has been pitting his older Toshiba laptop with his pretty much brand new HP (with higher spec), and you may be surprised to find out who wins. 

I’ll leave the instigator of the challenge to explain… 

“The £350 Toshiba laptop on the left has 1gb of ram and an Intel pentium dual core processor 1.6ghz compared to the £600 HP Computer with 3gb ram and an AMD Athlon x2 2.4ghz processor yet the old cheaper and supposedly slower laptop still manages to beat it! And the computer is a week old with barely nothing on it!”

Have a great weekend!

Yesterday we talked of laptops so small that one could pick them up by the fingers and virtually slip them in your pocket (you’d have to have very large pockets mind….) Today it’s back to the more sizable alternatives - ideal for those folk who enjoy a huge-old screen and fully immersing themselves within whatever their computer screen is throwing out at them.

“The Toshiba Qosmio G55 is a beast to behold. You could practically serve a meal on its 18.4-inch display, and when we tried to pick it up, it felt quite heavy, as expected. This is definitely a desktop replacement, and you might need a bigger desk” say infosyncworld.com, who go on to extol the virtues of the use of the same multimedia chip that powers the PS3, and of course – the gesture control features. 

What may be of real interest though, especially amongst those of you interested in the world of vide/multimedia-editing is this tale… “As an interesting example, our rep related an anecdote about editing a video of his daughter. First, he selected his daughter’s face from the group being filmed. Then, the laptop scanned through the remaining footage to pull out all the relevant clips where she was present. Sounds pretty cool to us.” 

We concur!

Head over here to read the full review.

Josh Norem at Digital Trends has had his hands on a Toshiba Qosmio G45, and brings us his thoughts in an extensive review. He says it has been designed as ‘an entertainment hub for your household’, and can be a decent desktop replacement if you ‘don’t want a glitzy gaming machine’. Going through all the multimedia functions, Josh reckons this machine functions as a stand alone hone theatre system.

The size of the package doesn’t escape mention, with Josh saying it’s ‘incredibly solid and well-built’ looking like it has been ‘carved out of granite’. The start-up speed is ‘impressively fast’, and the only downside Josh could find was the ‘obsolete’ HD-DVD drive (but this has been covered massively elsewhere).

Jump over to read Josh’s review, and if you’ve got your own G45, why not leave a user review? If you haven’t had a chance to try one yet, we have several Qosmios waiting to be trialled by established bloggers and forum members, so drop us a line if you’d like to get your hands on one.