Toshiba Qosmio G45 Review
April 11, 2008 | by Ian Bell
Toshiba's Qosmio G45 laptop is designed to be the central hub of your digital home. Just don't try traveling with it.
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"If you’re in the market for a desktop replacement notebook, but don’t want a glitzy gaming machine, you could do a lot worse than Toshiba’s loaded Qosmio G45-AV690. Designed to be the central hub of a digital home, it sports a lot of media-centric features including an HD DVD burner, HDMI output and it even comes with a digital cable adapter too. Sadly, it has bloatware issues and one of its primary features is its HD DVD playback capabilities, which is essentially outdated tech at this point, making it difficult to wholeheartedly recommend."
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Kenpachi on Apr 12th, 2008 at 12:50 AM:
The major drawbacks on this unit are it's price and the fact it comes with Vista :) I consider the HD-DVD as a bonus, and not a drawback at all; here's why.
It doubles up as a DVD/CD burner, just like any other laptop would have, so you are not losing any functionality by having it. The only thing different is it plays an additional format, I wouldn't call that a bad thing.
The price of the unit will or has most likely been discounted just because people are scared to purchase laptops with HD-DVD drives. It's perfectly fine to get one, as long as they double up as a DVD/CD burner; if they do not, don't buy it!
Kenpachi on Apr 12th, 2008 at 12:50 AM:
Sorry for the double post, didn't see that require thing way at the top...
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Kenpachi on Apr 12th, 2008 at 12:50 AM:
The big drawback with this laptop is its price. Maybe I'm cheap, but I would never pay that much for one, especially one with Vista on it.
I also don't see the HD-DVD player as being a negative for this unit, you have to think that it plays HD-DVD's, plays and burns regular DVD's, dual layer DVD's and CD's. So, it's just like any other DVD player it just does one more thing, plays HD-DVD's.
I would easily recommend a laptop that sports an HD-DVD drive to anyone, as long as it doubles up as a DVD/CD burner, so I don't know what the big deal it about that, your actually better off with it.