Toshiba Qosmio X500: King of the Notebooks

The Toshiba Qosmio X500 truly is a very powerful notebook. It has one of the most powerful processors around, the graphics card is awesome and it has a lot of RAM and HDD space! To make a long story short, the X500 is one of the best notebooks available right now.

Processor

The Qosmio X500 has one of the new spiffy i7 cores: Intel Core 17-720QM. It can be up to 75% faster than the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000! You have to admit that's huge. It's base frequency is 1.6 GHz and the Max Turbo frequency is 2.8 Ghz. That gives a maximum of 11.2 GHz!

Hard Drive

The two 'cheaper' versions of the X500 come with a 320 GB Hard Drive. The speed, 7200 rpm makes up for the relative low capacity of the HDD. The $ 1700 version however, comes with 704 GB, a 640 GB HDD (5400 rpm) and 64 GB SSD. The Solid State Drive gives a huge speed boost.

Memory

All three versions of the X500 come with 4GB DDR3 (1066 MHz) Memory. The maximum supported amount of memory is 8 GB though. So you can expand it if you want.

Graphics Card

The X500 comes with a NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M graphics card. This is one of the best GFX cards available at the moment. It supports Full HD (1920 x 1080) as well. I won't go into details here, because I'm not that good at Graphics card. Notebookcheck has a pretty detailed review of it.

Audio & Video

The monitor of the X500 is 18.4" widescreen LCD screen. It has got two built uin harman/kardon stereo speakers. It supports Dolby Surround Sound as well.

The Toshibe Qosmio X500 comes in three versions. They all have slightly different specs. The prices and specs can be found on the Toshiba site. Nonetheless, all three versions are very powerful notebooks. If you're planning on buying a new notebook, you should definitely consider this one.

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