Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q830 Reviews

Runs wicked fast when it works ;

I wrote the "so far so good" review above -- it's now 3 weeks later and while I really like this laptop, I've run into a problem where it randomly instantaneously reboots. 3 times during a network file copy, once when I just picked up the computer from my...

I give 4 stars -- but I decided to throw money at the problem and go for 5 stars: RMAed and upgraded to the q850. Did this mostly because the LCD had a below average vertical viewing angle. All laptops seem to suffer from this, but I think the q830 suffer...

Plays Wow on high settings (not ultra though) at ; 30+ FPS ; Comfortable keyboard and touch pad for a laptop ; Quiet! Only a subtle fan can be heard if you really listen ; 1 gig ethernet screams! Pulled over 17 GB of ; WoW files in relatively little time...

Narrow LCD vertical viewing angle ; Intermittent bad wireless performance in my house ; compared to my other wireless laptop. Couldn't figure out ; how/why this occurred, but sometimes web-browsing would ; stall and internet speed tests showed degraded ba...

I couldn't get the facial recognition to work right, maybe i'll try again in different lighting. Also the left touchpad mouse key had a minor scratch in it. Not a huge deal but I was a little dissappointed to see my brand new $1900 machine already scratch...

I love the large screen. Runs Red Alert 3 fluidly with 900p on high settings, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising 900p on highest settings. Since I mainly use my computers for gaming I found this very satisfying becuase I was at first skeptical about the...

I was a little dissappointed to find the so called "64 gig" SSD was only 47.x as I intended to put just a few demanding games on it. Also I wish there were a 500 GB 2nd hard drive option. I put in a BlueRay Disc and even though it came in perfect 1080p, I...