Toshiba Qosmio G55-Q802

In todays tech world there are so many laptops, and I mean so many, its hard to know which one to choose or which has the most up to date and best technology. What factors can you look for today in a faster laptop? I mean we already have DSL so speed isnt a factor, pretty much all laptops have a fast processor, good graphics card, nice sound and all that jazz. What possibly more could ANYONE do to get a faster lap top or something worth 5 months of my paycheck. It looks like now, they resort to user functionality. Or how lazy can I be, while still using a laptop.

That is where the Toshiba Qosimo G55-Q802 comes into play. It has all that jazz. A huge crystal clear and sharp 18.4 inch screen, Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT, Dual 250GB hard drives, 4gB DDR2 Ram, 2GHz Core 2 Duo P7350 processor, and even a super sexy sounding sound system. I mean yea, that sounds like a cool laptop. But really..there are a million like it. And for $1600?

Ah, but I fooled you. It does have SOME neat things. It will convert your regular standard DVD's, to HD so you can watch them in..well HD on your laptop. Not bad, thats pretty neat. It also has a very sleek and sexy look. The keyboard is HUGE with a dedicated numerical keypad.

The computer also uses a new cell processor, the same kind used in the Playstation 3. This is where this gets interesting. (or should) The Quad Core HD Processor is supposed to speed up the video transcoding process way faster. So people who edit home movies or the kid who makes skateboard montages should be able to compile them at almost double the speed of a regular processor. I read from some websites they tested this, and it was only about a minute and a half longer. Nice lie Toshiba.

So since that whole processor video codec bullshit got layed out on its ass, it does have something to make up for it. That is Gesture Control. Using the integrated web cam, you can use different hand motions to start, stop, pause, play a movie. You can make a palm to stop or play the movie, click your thumb like a pen to select objects on screen, and use your fist and move it around to act as the mouse. Also from other websites who tested it, they say its still kind of buggy and the room needs to be well lit to use the feature.

So what other mediocre technologies does this laptop have? Video indexing. It picks out faces from scenes in movies, so you can look through a catalog of faces, and start a movie from scenes with that face. What the fuck is the point of that. Thats just really pointless. If I used that feature in a Rocky movie I would be directed to every god damn scene.

This laptop is lame. I give it one thing, it looks sexy as fuck. The Gesture Control is neat, but for todays technology world and with the standards we have, it could be cooler. Video Indexing, not that advanced and not really helpful. The oh so amazing cell processor fails as well.

What does this laptop bring? Sexy looks, pretty good (but not amazing like stated by Toshiba) video editing and compiling, great video playback...and oh you get Windows Vista! (thats a joke)

Save your money, you can get a better laptop for around the same price. (mmm but it is really glossy...oh! sorry.)

SDASU Rating: 75/100