Toshiba Qosmio X305 Gaming Laptop Review

It's not often that a gaming laptop gets even close to the power of a desktop, but Toshiba is not one to heed. They have stuffed their new Qosmio with dual Nvidia SLI video cards, an Intel dual core processor, 4 gigs of RAM, and a set of fancy Harmon Kardon speakers.

What You Need to Know

• The exhaust on the back is huge, so airflow is steady
• It's also actually a little lighter (at 9lbs.) than the Toshiba G55 laptop we reviewed recently
• Even though it's ridiculous, we kind of like the crazy red paint job
• Since the trackpad is so thick and the keyboard is so far in, you might cramp your wrist gaming
• You also constantly have your wrist over one of the speakers
• We do like the click of the keys, and the lights and red interior are very cool
• It has three video cards
• We ran our 3DMark Vantage Tests and they actually came out a little lacking
• Toshiba has put in two 9800M GTS video cards, and one 9400M Integrated GPU on the motherboard; they call this "Hybrid SLI"
• It makes for good battery life since you can switch from integrated graphics to SLI
• The 3DMark Vantage Test score was only an okay 4,800 points

Price

• $2,000 for the unit
• If you want to upgrade to a 128GB Solid State Drive, it's $4,200
• Comparable Alienware or Falcon Northwest laptops are the same price and their form factor is much smaller

Overall Rating

• 80% (3 Seals of Approval) (how do we rate gadgets?)