Toshiba Qosmio X775 Reviewed: Good gaming laptop, lack luster display, and adware comes pre-installed
Posted on 04. Dec, 2011 by LaptopMan in Laptops, Laptops, Reviews
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So, you’ve come to realization that you want a gaming notebook with a 17-inch display and you think the quasi-affordable Toshiba Qosmio X775 is the ticket. However before putting any money on the table you’ve decided to do some due diligence and see how well the 17-inch gaming notebook has been reviewed. You’ve landed on the right page.
Let’s talk about the Toshiba Qosmio X775-Q7272 notebook that was recently reviewed by the good people of Notebookcheck.net. According to benchmarks and first-hand accounts on gaming performance the X775′s 2 GHz Intel Core i7-2630QM quad-core CPU, 1.5GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M GPU, 6GB of DDR3 1333 MHz RAM, and 2x 500GB 7200RPM RAID 0 hard drives performed very well at the notebooks native resolution of 1600×900 for the latest PC games. Not that surprising. However upon further investigation of everything you get when you purchase the X775 laptop some interesting product development decisions by Toshiba were uncovered.
Now the Toshiba Qosmio X775 is supposed to be a top-tier machine for Toshiba’s product line and it’s supposed to represent some of the best work that Toshiba engineers can come up with for the laptop industry. However the X775 falls short of perfection due to some questionable decisions on the part of Toshiba.
The display
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The display used on the over $1,000USD Toshiba Qosmio X775 isn’t the best. The display is glossy which normally would make the X775 all but useless outdoors in the Sun, but the glare problems one would experience with a glossy notebook are further extrapolated on the X775 due to its poor performing display –the display at full brightness just isn’t enough to overcome glare from the Sun, other gaming notebooks like the Asus ROG G74SX offer a better outdoor gaming experience because their displays can get much brighter than the X775.
Display brightness isn’t the only drawback for the X775, the displays resolution can also be seen as a downside to owning the X775. This notebook does come with a Blu-ray player and the resolution being gimped at 1600 x 900 pixels isn’t going to give you the ultimate Blu-ray experience like a Full HD 1920×1080 display would.
The pop-up ads
Another bad feature for the X775 is the adware that Toshiba pre-installs in the premium machine. If you’ve purchased Windows notebooks in recent years from major makers you’ve seen that pre-installed software is the norm, but most don’t include pop-ups. Toshiba managed to include pop-up advertisements with their Toshiba branded applications. Yes, pop-up ads are backed into the applications that Toshiba designed for this and many of their other notebooks. Now you can disable the pop-up ads, but you really shouldn’t need to do that for a $1,000+ laptop like the X775.
The battery life
Like many other gaming notebooks before it the Toshiba Qosmio X775 eats through battery power really quickly. According to benchmarks for battery life the X775 can only last 44 minutes under some stress (OpenGL image rendering with display brightness at max and Wi-Fi enabled), but with light usage (Wi-Fi web browsing and DVD playback –note not Blu-ray–) the X775 could last a little over 3 hours.
With those major negatives considered the Toshiba Qosmio X775-Q7272 isn’t the perfect notebook, but if you’re just interested in getting an affordable gaming notebook you’re not going to be disappointed with the X770 in most scenarios.
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Computer Repair Atlanta
04. Dec, 2011
I managed to put one of these puppies to sleep after less than 3 months of use. Sending it in for warranty repair ASAP, but its going to be a headache backing up 750gigs of data I had managed to store on this puppy before she broke.
I bought the Qosmio x755-q7272 because it had a geforce 560m and it performed nicely in graphics intense games with winamp playing music in the background. I really wanted to buy a Dell and at one point I had a fully loaded XPS 17 but it was bad out of the box so I decided to try Toshiba this time.
I ran folding at home on the GPU and boinc on the CPU pretty much non-stop while the computer was on. So I had it working at its fullest about 10 hours a day M-F and 24 – 48 hours straight over the weekends. When it died on me that was the longest it had been plugged in and running. Somewhere near 3 days of non-stop processing prior to the meltdown.
My fault? Probably, Under warranty? Yes, Lemon Law required yet? Nope.
Cheers!
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