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"Premium gaming power and performance. The Qosmio X500 is designed for gaming, high definition entertainment and high performance computing."
As Toshiba is keen to make clear in its own adverstising, the Qosmio X500 is one of the most powerful laptops currently available, and with some of the latest technology inside, we're expecting a powerful performer that's a treat to use.
The processor in the Qosmio X500-11D with batteries like Toshiba PA2487U Battery, Toshiba PA3107U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3383U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3384U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3285U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3191U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3166U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3331U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3098U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PA3084U-1BRS Battery is the best that's currently available: an Intel Core i7-720QM with four cores! With such a powerful engine, this laptop reached 127 on our CPU index and 135 overall. You can compare that to the 100 on our standard reference, the Fujistu-Siemens Amilo Xi 3650 with its Intel Core 2 Duo T9400. Although it's a little behind the Asus G60J, these are still excellent results which show how easily this computer can handle both office tasks and multimedia fun like gaming, photos and video.
The Core i7 CPU is more than capable of playing 1080p HD Blu-ray standard video by itself, but this can also be done by the Nvidia graphics card. To get the most out of its excellent decoding ability, we recommend you go for software that can use the hardware decoding that's available. Power DVD 9 and Media Player Classic HC with the right codecs are just two options. Doing this takes a lot of work off the processor which can then get on with other things. In practice, the energy consumption falls form 85 to 74 W, while the load on the CPU drops to a negligible 1%, compared to 18% without the graphics card.
It lasted just 1 hour 48 minutes in out standard video playback test (WiFi turned off, headphones plugged in and brightness at 100 cd/m²), so the X500 isn't really the type of computer that you take with you on the road very often. It's much more at home in your front room, or as a desktop replacement in an office.
The huge charger only confirmed our impression. It's an absolute brick, and comes on top of the 4.6 kg of the computer itself. This laptop really does fall into the category of transportables ...
Progress at last! With contrast of 805:1 (blacks at 0.25 cd/m² against whites of 201.3 cd/m²) and a Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixel) display, this laptop does better than much of the competition.
It still relies on TN panel technology, like just about every other laptop out there, with a response time of 5 ms. As a result, the viewing angles from above and below aren't great, but the screen is responsive enough for office work and watching films.
By default, the colours aren't accurate and we measured an average discrepancy, or deltaE, or 7.5. After calibration, that feell to 0.9.
The Qosmio X500 is one of the most powerful laptops currently available, and nothing stands in its way. But it's also a transportable, rather than a portable, computer, and we were disappointed by its speakers and trackpad.
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