Toshiba Qosmio User reviews

By Tim Dean on 11/01/2005

More Toshiba PC reviews , RRP: AU$5999.00

The good:

  • Incredibly well equipped for just about any productivity or entertainment tasks

The bad:

  • Large, heavy and pricey

The bottomline:

Very impressive technology, with a strange double role, and a price tag that matches its massive size

Users' rating:

8.3/10

frank
01/04/2006, 08:35 PM

forget it

i bought a qosmio g10 and two times the motherbord crashed. there was no chance to get the datas and a recommend this laptop to everybody who wants to buy a lot of money for beeing a beta tester

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MORACHIS
05/03/2006, 03:50 PM

MEMORY STICK READER

I HAVE BEEN USING THIS MODEL WITHOUT MAJOR PROBLEMS FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS, THE ONLY GLITCH I HAVE FOUND IS THE BUILT IN READER FOR SONY MEMORY STICKS. IT JUST WONT RECOGNIZE IT...THE SCREEN GOES BLUE AND THEN IT CRASHES...THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR ME SINCE I FIGURE IT IS A DRIVER PROBLEM, EASILY FIXED WITH AN USB CARD READER (WHICH I BOUGHT)...SO, BE CAREFUL IF YOU HAVE A SONY CAMERA...GET YOUR USB CARD READER!...OR GO THRU HELL WITH "CUSTOMER SERVICE"...

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cmac
05/03/2006, 01:46 AM

Great notebook F20 or F25 if your a traveler

Experience notebook user. Like this unit but ran into difficulty with Adobe Premiere products - seems to be conflict with TV tuner card and products like Premiere Pro and Elements 2 don't run. Been using system 6 months, runs hot but on all other counts I really like it.

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16/01/2006, 02:11 PM

159% Perfect Baby

One word - PERFECT

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02/01/2006, 12:00 AM

Windows couldn't have hoped for a better laptop to show of Media Centre

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memek
15/12/2005, 12:43 PM

Hardware failure: better be patient and wait for better days...

I have bought a G10-120 at the end of Feb'05. At the beginning of Nov'05 it had a motherboard related problem. I have given the Qosmio to an official repair center, suggested by Toshiba Help Line, and waited more than 1 month to have it back but not fully working. This time seems to be a lot slower as before; is impossible to see any kind of animation/movie without heavy swapping (better not talking about lower perfomance in every other software). I have contacted Toshiba Help Line again but, after 1 month and an half, I have not my 3k euro laptop working as indeed. And above all, not any definitive answer by the same customer care center.

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Matthew
13/11/2005, 03:16 PM

Beautiful Design and excellent performance

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jeremy
26/10/2005, 10:48 PM

problem after problem

yep, this is the second time I'm writing here, now the 'power saver' option isn't working, the drivers won't reinstall properly. Oh, by the way, if you ever try recording live television and burning it to DVD, well, it's never once worked for me!

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damatta
23/10/2005, 08:42 PM

HAS EVERYTHING DOES ANYTHING

Best looking notebook by far and best performing notebook by a country mile.

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Jeremy
30/08/2005, 06:34 PM

I bought the machine 6 months ago. The wifi didn't work from the very start...

I bought the machine 6 months ago. The wifi didn't work from the very start. Then later the motherboard broke (this never happened on my old crappy pc...or any other I've owned). To make matters worse, you can't actually burn movies through media centre, it always stuffs up. For the amount of money I spent on this machine I really did expect much much more. Oh, also one of the function keys stopped working, something to do with the registry. Nobody at Toshiba could help me unless I was prepared to fork out $large an hour. Incidently I found that there was a special section on the recovery cd that fixed this problem...why didn't toshiba just tell me that? This computer is a rip-off, the quality is substandard.

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