Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q830 18.4-Inch Gaming Black/Red Laptop – 3 Hours 40 Minutes of Battery Life

4 comments

1. 

   Sparkle on December 8, 2009 at 12:43 am

   I did weeks of research, (as with 90% of the items I purchase). And decided on this particular laptop because it had all of the desired specifications I needed for video and music editing. I’ve had the laptop for less than a week and I’m strongly considering returning it to the manufacturer.
   
   First reason, I don’t have administrative writes to all parts of my hard drive. I can’t save files on my c: drive except in my “user” folder. I kept getting an error message stating: “You don’t have permissions to save to this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission.” However, I am logged in as the administrator. The only folder I’m able to write to on the hardrive is my user folder. I called Toshiba’s technical support and they informed me that this laptop has a known issue/bug with Windows 7. In order to fix you must do a full recovery of your hard drive but make sure you back it up first! Apparently the system has a hidden partition which allows you to rest it back to it’s original factory settings. By removing the battery for 2-3 hours while it’s plugged into the wall,(ok whatever).
   
   Second reason, I’m not used to the Toshiba’s “System Control Panel” located next to the typing keys. I find myself mistakenly hitting one of those 8 buttons all the time while I’m typing. Which launches either; an application, disk drive, mute button or something else.
   
   Third reason is the touchPad used to move your mouse curser. I find it’s in an awkward place for me,(It’s slightly off-center and I’m not sure why, or maybe I’m just slightly off center). I find as I’m typing, if my hands slightly touches the TouchPad, the cursor jumps to weird places anywhere on the screen. One nice feature is you can disable the touchPad as your typing.
   
   I’m not impressed with the Harman/Kardon speakers. I thought the quality was just okay. Whenever I turned the speakers up as loud as they would go,(to watch a movie on the beautiful screen), the sound would crack as I increased the volume – and once it’s turned all the way up, the volume would go up and down unexpectedly.
   
   Overall, I find that this laptop is not really a “portable” laptop. I purchased it as a desktop replacement so I don’t have to be confined to my office. I figured I can work other places in my house and this is fine. But I can’t see myself taking this one to a coffee shop because it’s just too big and heavy. As a matter of fact, I find it very difficult to work with this computer while in my pajama’s in bed.
   
   But in all fairness, this laptop is a “Beast” with all of it’s power, that’s why it gets 3 stars. Surfing the Internet is smooth and seamless. Anything that requires large amount of resources like video editing and gameing should not be a problem, this laptop should handle all of your multi-tasking with ease.
   
   I will try to fix my bug and let you know if I was successful and also if I decided to keep or return it.
   

2. 

   Leonardo Huerta Alvarez on December 8, 2009 at 1:12 am

   I bought this computer from amazon. I’ve been using it for about a week when suddenly it just die. I called the tech support and told me to set my computer on an out-of-box state, I did it twice and didn’t solve the problem, so I sent it to the toshiba depot and the diagnostic was the video card has problems.

   I think is because an overheating problem with the gpu, I think it needs a better cooling system. I used it as the manual says, on a flat surface, no dust, etc… and even with that I got the problem.

   So it is a good computer but toshiba has to improve its cooling system in their laptops.

3. 

   Garrick W. Oates on December 8, 2009 at 1:38 am

   Well, it took 2 weeks to get this all the way to South Africa, but boy was it worth the wait. This baby is awesome. I also play Aion, and can play it with everything on high…better than my Q6600 quad-core PC with AMD 4870 GFX could handle. The finish on this laptop is superb and the keyboard is nice and light to the touch.

   The sound isn’t that awesome, but is sufficient to watch a blu-ray when you need to.

   All in all, a great laptop and the GTS250M 1GB DDR5 does my gaming just fine.

4. 

   T. Yang on December 8, 2009 at 2:14 am

   I got the model x505-q830 because about $450 less than q850, the q830 and q850 are same xcept 850 has two 2g more memory and resolution 1920×1000 and 830 has 1685×950. The reason I choose this laptop over other because it comes with everything,from bluetooth to blueray and it even enery star, latest i7 process, even the great sound speaker with aluminum cover not existing plastic hole and the volume touch control is near top medle left for fast easy excess. The wireless get 5 bars or 80% signal even through two walls that about 15 feet from router or 95 to 100% 10 feet without wall, so use build in wireles N and wireless N router instead of
   
   wireless G which I has interuption on the past with my other laptop and after switch to wireless N, solve the problem. Sofar I have call of duty 4, world at war,and hawx with max resolution 1685×950 and they are run perfectly and I play Cod 4 and Wow online everyday since I got it without problem, I get a slight lag on some maps but I can not blame this laptop because my DSL server is $12.99 which is least expensive and slowest speed, but overal it running great and fun exprience online gameplay.
   
   Surfing the web is fast and zero issue, like open Amazon page within 2 seconds or so. Oh from sufing to gaming the graphic is great and the webcam hd like compare to
   
   my other laptop. The only wair issue I had was that after first time settup and tried to install game and tried to play video disc but it won’t do anything like if
   
   the computer could not read or know what in the disc slot so I call tech support after serval mines and could not fix and the tech told me to call Amazon for help.
   
   Then decide to delete preinstall trail software Norton(a useless,slow your system,a creats issue piece of #$@&*!)and then update window then the problem of install
   
   game and play dvd is solve. I am more then happy with purchase this laptop and think it going to be my most pride gedget,Toshiba did a great job, keep up, this is my
   
   second Toshiba, the first still useful not for newer game, even after 3 years using it.