Toshiba's Qosmio G40 now with world's first HD DVD-RW drive

Notice anything special about that laptop up there? No besides it's monstrous footprint. Right, a world's first HD DVD-RW drive in a laptop. Otherwise, it's the same 17-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Qosmio G40 we know and love now topping out with a 2.2GHz T7500 Core 2 Duo, up to 400GB of disk and 4GB of memory, and a pair of terrestrial HDTV tuners with HDMI-out in a 10.6-pound slab of media action. Priced at about ¥400,000 ($3,530) nicely equipped.

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2007 6:19AM]

Superb quality gear, very nice.

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2007 7:38AM]

That is one freakin' SWEET laptop config!! Dual HDTV tuners and HDMI? Plus HD-DVD? And don't forget the T7500, 4GB memory and 400GB storage. Toshiba decides to pull out all the stops and gives us a little slice of heaven with this one.

For all that, I'd definitely slog around the 10 pounds in my bag. Way to go Toshiba! Too bad you guys are losing so much cash on your HD players that you can't put a quality computer out... oh wait... you just did! Sorry Blu!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2007 8:09AM]

Qosmio has a reputation for being anything but quality.

The Satellite? Now that is quality.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2007 8:38AM]

I wants it!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2007 1:22PM]

Sexy. Same feeling I got when I saw the first optical disc drives in laptops...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2007 2:02PM]

I see Toshiba finally managed to get rewritable HD DVD support out. Or at least announced. Of course, you still can't even buy an HD DVD-R burner unless it comes packaged in a laptop, so don't hold your breath waiting for external HD DVD-RW burners. Meanwhile there are at least half a dozen companies selling unique Blu-ray burners (with both writable and rewritable support - imagine that!). Oh, and where's that 51GB HD DVD burner? Oh, right, that format has only been approved for ROM.