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.

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.

Mixture of aluminum on the outside and matte black inside, the lines of NX90 not leave anyone indifferent.
Some love and others detest.

The design of the screen is not unlike that of a TV. The speakers on either side of the deck enjoy a bigger size – four to five times by Asus – than other phones on the market. The sound rendering should be particularly careful, the NX90 also have an amplifier designed exclusively to accommodate the constraints of restitution of a laptop.

Another feature of NX90 its dual touchpad located on both sides of the keyboard, novel systems to date. The question is whether the efficiency is really improved compared to a conventional touchpad. A video is available at Engadget, but it does not really realize the grip available.

But design is not the only benefit of this notebook outside standard. The configuration is also up to the expectations of demanding users with an Intel Core i7 processor, graphics card NVIDIA Geforce GT 335M, Up to 1.28 TB of disk space or a Blu-Ray to enjoy High Definition on the slab 18.4 inch Full HD. The NX90 is also equipped with USB ports 3.

The price has not been disclosed, but it’s a safe bet that it will be like the other products of the B & O.