Design and processing
The Qosmio F60-10X Toshiba has a lid in the alarm color red bear. He is like the palm rest and the keys provided with a gloss coating as well. Fingerprints are to be seen very clearly, however: The Qosmio F60-10X provides already worn out, therefore, after a short time if you do not remove the stains with a cleaning cloth.

The housing may strike at first sight, it is not stable processes: Even while pushing it creaked audibly. The lid opening was often annoying to hear a squeak

Speed
The Toshiba Qosmio F60-10X Core sits a i3-330M from Intel – and the multimedia notebook delivered in the speed tests also closely monitor the performance, which one processor must wait for this. In the system in 2007 achieved the benchmark Sysmark Qosmio F60-10X, for example, 126 points. Incidentally, as much as the nearly two-year-old Qosmio x300-11L managed with a Core 2 Duo P8600.

The 3D performance of the graphics card Nvidia Geforce GT330M enough for most DX9 games, but not for games that use DX10 effects when maximum resolution of notebook displays and high picture quality will play in the. DX11 supports NVidia graphics anyway. The integrated graphics processor in the unit has switched off Toshiba, switching between two graphics chips is not possible.

Equipment
The highlight of the Toshiba Qosmio F60-10X is the Blu-Ray burner: He describes single-layer Blu-ray discs with up to six times the speed. Even with CDs and DVDs of the burner worked fast. He also had no problems, even with high speed read scratched media.

When you get Qosmio F60-10X while a Blu-Ray burner: The hard drive is 320 GB but less than usual, with notebooks in this price range. The remaining equipment is neat: For external storage offers the Qosmio F60-10X four USB ports, one of them to let them e-SATA devices connects. Also for the network’s all there: Gigabit-LAN, WLAN and Bluetooth-11n. Toshiba also installed many software tools on the notebook: some of them are really useful for the network connection or perform a system check as to other; one could also do without you. The playback software for Blu-Ray and DVD + supports Resolution: This wills the Toshiba HD-DVD playback quality almost achieves.

Screen
The screen does not quite fit into a high-quality multimedia notebook: First, its resolution is only 1366 x 768 pixels, the screens can therefore only play back video in 720p natively, Full-HD movies he has on his resolution down sampling. He also shone not overly bright – we measured an average of 182 cd/m2. High-quality multimedia notebooks offer a brightness of 250 cd/m2 or more. The contrast was more than mediocre. In the laboratory, the display proved not to be excessively responsive: The subjective visual tests, but there were no problems with movie playback.

Battery life
The Toshiba Qosmio F60-10X is not particularly easy for a 15.6-inch notebook. For standard applications, it was with one charge by about three hours short. In practice this is not enough for a long Blu-ray movie when you film shows the brightness all the way up for the turn.

Keyboard
The Qosmio F60-10X keyboard was installed and stable, low voice. The pressure feedback of the keys was clear. Toshiba is building a number pad in the keyboard. Right over the keyboard to sits seven sensor buttons that can control the media playback for example.

Conclusion
Toshiba Qosmio F60-10X offers good facilities with the large extra Blu-Ray burner. However, it was in the test as a multimedia device is not entirely convincing: For this example, the display was too mediocre. Overall, the notebook left in the test a bad impression. Nevertheless, one must for this price, even apart from the Blu-Ray burner expect something more.

Its glossy finish at both the chassis and the touchpad and keyboard at first, but seduces shows conclusively fingerprints.
The keyboard makes writing fun. The storage space is valuable and connector complete.

The screen displays vivid colors and brightness and contrast means but is subject to glare.

The audio is good with a nice volume and bass present.
It is heard in full load.

Side graphics, it gets a rating of 4135 points in 3DMark06 and 3DMark 1298 Vantage points, enough to play games not too greedy. Under recent titles like FPS and racing game, we must adapt the level of detail and resolution so that games of strategy and / or multi-player going well in native resolution.

Its range is good. It is 3:05 in a row playing a video with maximum brightness and Wi-Fi enabled. It is rated 5 / 5 and is labeled Choice 01Net.

Asus puts the dishes in the large (or vice versa!) Proposed here and its bestseller, the UL30, with the new NVIDIA Geforce 310M alongside Intel’s integrated chipset. On his new series, Asus has thus automating the management of energy. That is, when the machine is not requested, the processor will reduce its maximum frequency, and the display will be managed by the integrated Intel chipset. Once the need for felt power (Games, HD video), the processor increases the frequency and the display switches to the dedicated NVIDIA card to ensure the fluidity of the whole.

The rest of the configuration remains the same (as it is the same chassis), then loads the UL30JT an Intel i7 640UM or 620UM depending on configurations, up to 4 GB of DDR3 (1066 MHz), a graphics card NVIDIA Geforce 310M with 1 GB of dedicated memory (a GMA + HD), a 13.3-inch LED screen in 1366 x 768, HDMI port, VGA, 3 x USB, Ethernet port, an SD Card slot, WiFi b / g / n and Bluetooth. The storage will be provided by a disk of 640 GB

Regarding autonomy, Asus announced and introduced the 12 model with 8-cell battery of 5400mAh, without specifying whether this is the final battery. A priori, two batteries will be offered on the weight to 1.4 kg for 4 cells and 1.7 kg for the 8 cells.

We still lack information about the configuration details. It is certain that today will carry an ULV Core i7 (probably the i7-620UM) and NVIDIA GeForce 310M in parallel with an Intel GMA chipset. The rest of the configuration, based on a chassis UL80 should embark classics HDMI, VGA, 3xUSB Microphone, Headset, Ethernet and an SD card slot.

Asus is also vague on over clocking the processor. Indeed, the new Core i7 has the abilities over clocker automatically as needed (or reduce their consumption at maximum), it does not know if the Turbo 33 will feature the game. The big change compared to the previous generation remains the automation of power management. When the machine is not requested, the processor will reduce its maximum frequency, and the display will be managed by the integrated Intel chipset. Once the need for felt power (Games, HD video), the processor increases the frequency and the display switches to the dedicated NVIDIA card.

With this technique, Asus announces 12h maximum autonomy (in power saving mode), and the possibility of parallel power play (albeit by making concessions).

Little aside on this model and automatic failover announced. We sincerely hope that efforts have been made to ensure smoother operation and no longer hold to software problems. Indeed today, the series UL80VT, it is impossible to switch from one card to another if some common applications (Live Messenger, Steam …) are launched … There are more practical.

This UL80JT we expect a lot should reveal a bit more in the days and weeks ahead we will keep you informed of his arrival on the market.

The HP Pavilion dv8-1190ef is equipped with an Intel chipset HM55, a Core i7-720QM (1.6 GHz, 6MB cache), 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM (8GB max), of 2 SATA drives of 500 GB at 7200 rpm, a graphic card Geforce GT 230M 1GB Dedicated 2.8 GB TurboCache, screen 18.4”WUXGA LED Ultra BrightView Infinity Full HD resolution of 1920 by 1080 , a webcam with microphone, Blu-Ray/graveur DVD combo drive, a card reader 5 in 1, a keypad, a 2.1 audio system Altec Lansing with Dolby Home Theater and Port Wi-Fi a / g / n, Bluetooth, HDMI, VGA, Firewire, ExpressCard54, Infrared, Headphones (x2) Microphone, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0 (x4 combo with 1 e-SATA).

Guaranteed 1 year, it runs under Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a Li-ion 4 cells, Weighs 4.06 kg and measuring 436 x 286 x 33.7-43.7 mm.

The design does not evolve and thus found a dark Espresso finish decorated with clear reasons curves on the hull and the wrist rests giving it an original look while remaining sober. The connector is positioned on the sides, in large part on the left. The touchpad on the eccentric left has a scroll zone and two buttons separated from each other not to mention a hold button.

Available for less than 1400 euros here at Fnac or here at Rue du Commerce, the HP Pavilion dv8-1190ef is positioned in the middle of its class.

This is a multimedia-oriented model with its Blu-Ray to enjoy media on the High Definition Full HD 16:9 screens, its audio system with subwoofer to immerse you in the atmosphere and that its space of storage of 1000 GB with two hard drives fast.

The Core i7 is also well suited to this type of use, it is much more efficient than the Quad Core generation. At ease in all situations or near it unveils its full potential in applications taking advantage of multi-heart as in the last drafts of Adobe Photoshop (photo) and Premiere (video).

The RAM is fully supported by the 64-bit system and the connection is provided.
We regret that the battery does not show a greater capacity, 4 cells are really just a PC of this type.

As for the dedicated graphics card, it will play tracks not too resource intensive 3D. Lower levels of detail and / or resolution will be needed in some games. In this regard, we may regret that HP has not resolved to integrate a graphics card belonging to the new 300 series Geforce or Radeon Mobility HD5000.

The T410 ThinkPad is an evolution of the T400 already marketed. As its name suggests, this is a 14-inch model. The main novelty is the introduction of Intel Core i5. A dual-channel chipset with integrated graphics and dedicated graphics card will also present to promote independence and the power of 3D calculations as needed. Some versions of the T410 can receive an optional touch screen. Lenovo also announced the ThinkPad T410 should embark a slightly smaller configuration.

Also new, the ThinkPad T510, which will carry its share to Intel Core i7 already available for several months (see the review for more information). The ThinkPad T510 features a slab 15 inches LED and shipped a new keyboard. Lenovo also announced a range of up to 18h with the 9 cell battery available as an option.

The ThinkPad W510, the workstation for professionals, will also benefit from Intel Core i7. Graphic artists and photographers will be interested in the presence of a probe calibration to display accurate color on the slab integrated. The latter is able to reproduce by Lenovo 95% of the gamut of the NTSC space.
The W510 can also be equipped with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M or a touch screen multi touch.

All models are of course available in several versions to suit the greatest number. Many options are available, for example, it is possible to choose a chip integrated 3G +, replace the hard disk by a DSS or to install up to 16GB of RAM.

Side tariffs, it will take about $ 1,000 for the T410, $ 1,400 for the T410, $ 1,600 for the T510 and W510. Lenovo announces availability for the month of January in the United States.