Toshiba Qosmio

The Qosmio series is Toshiba's consumer-marketed line of high performance desktop replacement laptops. The laptop was first released on July 25, 2004 as the E15-AV101 with a 1.7&nbsp;GHz Intel Pentium M CPU, 512 megabytes of DDR SDRAM, and a 15&nbsp;inch XGA 1,024 by 768 screen. Toshiba's most powerful laptop has undergone many revisions, with focus shifting from high-end multimedia functionality to heavy gaming. The current line, the X500 series, was released on October 22, 2009, featuring an Intel Core i7 processor with up to 6 gigabytes of DDR3 SDRAM as well as an 18.4&nbsp;inch Full HD display.<!-- -->

History

The Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV650 is the first production notebook made available with an HD DVD-compatible drive. The Qosmio G35 line also functioned as a Digital Video Recorder as it contains an integrated TV tuner.

Focus for the Qosmio has shifted from full-fledged multimedia to high end gaming with high quality graphics and audio. This can be seen in the first Qosmio, the E15-AV101, which offered a 1.7&nbsp;GHz Intel Pentium M 735 CPU, 512 megabytes of DDR SDRAM, a 15&nbsp;inch XGA 1,024 by 768 screen, and an nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with 64 MB of dedicated DDR video memory, all of which were relatively powerful for the time.<ref...
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