Qosmio Laptops

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I'm considering buying this, and I wanted a little more information on it since Google provided nothing video-wise, customer review, etc.

1: how are the Qosmio series, specifically the one in subject title, heating wise?

2:how does the 250 gts mobile (Gddr5) do, I mean could you compare it to dual 260 gtx mobile? I don't really understand Gddr5/have benchmark comparison, it appears discouraging vs dual 260. But heard it saves a lot of power for a little less performance

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3:What parts of this laptop can be upgraded? I don't expect graphics card or anything like the alienware m17x.  But I mean like, can the processor at-least be upgraded?, I would certainly expect the hardrive, I don't like what it currently has, i wanna replace 320 with 500, just because i use alot and i like the extensiveness for the future.  Ram obviously would be upgradeable, But who has money for 2x4 ddr3? Already has enough currently anyway.

4:etc, anything (you) have to say about its Pros and Cons.

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Watercycle wrote:

I'm considering buying this, and I wanted a little more information on it since Google provided nothing video-wise, customer review, etc.

1: how are the Qosmio series, specifically the one in subject title, heating wise?

2:how does the 250 gts mobile (Gddr5) do, I mean could you compare it to dual 260 gtx mobile? I don't really understand Gddr5/have benchmark comparison, it appears discouraging vs dual 260. But heard it saves a lot of power for a little less performance

(IMPORTANT)

3:What parts of this laptop can be upgraded? I don't expect graphics card or anything like the alienware m17x.  But I mean like, can the processor at-least be upgraded?, I would certainly expect the hardrive, I don't like what it currently has, i wanna replace 320 with 500, just because i use alot and i like the extensiveness for the future.  Ram obviously would be upgradeable, But who has money for 2x4 ddr3? Already has enough currently anyway.

4:etc, anything (you) have to say about its Pros and Cons.

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1) Heat on the Qosmio line really isn't a problem aslong as you dont go overboard with overclockings

2) 2 260 GTX's will out perform a 250GTS end of story by a big margrine. One would still out perform the 250 GTS by about 16% or so. Being as only a few company's will be able to get there hands on the 260GTX however, the 250 GTS will do fairy well. My 9700M GTS is by far not the biggest fish but it does perform well than i thought it would considering the 200 series line is out, i can still play todays games (Flash Point2, AION) with max graphics @ 40 FPS and for Flashpoint 2 i lack the CPU power

3) Ram prob wont need to be touch, CPU, MAYBE. Hard Drives of course can be upgraded with SATA II 2.5" Discs

You can Theoretically upgrade the GPU in the Qosmio, but the price to do it is outrageous. The 250M GTS just like the 9700M GTS is a  MXM 3.0 Type B so theoretically you could take a 250M GTS and swap it into the older Qosmio X305 line but the cost to buy the cards from Toshiba would break the bank sense for some ungodly reason you HAVE to buy the video card with the motherboard (Even thou there both detatchable)