Toshiba unveils new Qosmio laptops

TOSHIBA HAS RECENTLY shown off three new additions to its Qosmio product range in the F50, G50 and the portable X300.

The 15.4-inch F50, and the 18.4-inch G50 both boast Toshiba’s own Quad Core HD Processor, based on cell architecture made up of no less than four 'Synergistic Processor Elements' (gasp!) which, according to the company, allow for real-time high definition upscaling of DVD content, video editing and high speed transcoding.

This homegrown proc is actually based on the famous Spurs Engine, a derivative of the Cell Broadband Engine, a multicore chip architecture developed by Toshiba along with IBM and Sony. The Spurs Engine can supposedly deliver up to 48 GFlops, or 12GFlops per processing element.

Also, the four pompously-named 'Synergistic Processor Elements' inside the chip purportedly have a clock frequency of 1.5GHz and a rather low power envelope of between 10 and 20 watts.

Both the F50 and the G50 purportedly offer 640GB of HDD and can expand to up to 8GB of system memory.

Tosh’s Qosmio X300 comes with Intel Core2 Duo Extreme CPUs, dual HDDs, and GDDR3 SLI graphics. All the new Qosmio laptops are apparently also kitted out with Nvidia’s latest GeForce graphics processor units.

They should all be available by the third quarter of 2008. µ