sn0wl Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 Toshiba Qosmio G30-102 is powered by a Powerful Core 2 Duo processor - a T7200. This is two cores running at 2GHz with 4MB of Level 2 cache. Pretty impressive. There's a healthy 2GB of RAM supplied and also two hard discs - both 100GB. These are only 5,400rpm but didn't feel slow thanks to being set up in RAID 0 configuration. However, this does mean that you have two points of potential failure for your data. If you want more security you can set it up and RAID 1 mirroring but you'll halve your capacity. Graphics are handled by a decent GeForce Go 7600. It doesn’t qualify this as an all out gaming machine but you’ll be able to play recent games, though you’ll struggle to do so at the screen’s native resolution, as you can see from our testing. Read the full review here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 HDtogo :) Glad we registered that domain already... *BORAT* not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 Is that a volume knob on the right hand side ? (the silver round thingy) It looks a bit like a Dell i9400 but chunkier, I don't like thick borders around screens. Was hoping that Toshiba may have upgraded the GPU to may be a go7700 or go7900GS as the go7600 is a let down on a machine that is this expensive. I don't think it's good value for money. 5400RPM drives once again in a machine that costs this much, not good. Having 2 drives is a huge plus, but a waste with the slow speed, also RAID 0 is too risky andf RAID 1 on modern 500,000+ hrs MTBF drives probably a waste. 5400 RPM in RAID 0 = not as fast as 7200 RPM, RAID only ads a small performance gain for much risk. A couple of 7200RPM 100GB HD's not RAID'ed at all would be very nice indeed. Not my cup of tea overall, but nice specs to brag to your friends to, even though a lot of cheaper machines will perform better. It does however come with all the bells and whistles for multimedia one bonus that very few Lappies can grag about. Would be nice to have a HD burner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Yes i agree, frames (the bigger the worst) and those mirror-ish new LCDs are a no-go! Revive the Satellite 5200 series! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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