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You may now bud. I put this lappy up for sale (click link in sig), complete with all the extras.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone!

-Brian

Nice review, Thanks... I was contemplating on buying this model when I read
your review... Now, I am not too sure due to the screen behaviour you
mentioned. I noticed that 200 and 400 cd's on other model, guest it makes
much difference then... Previous favorite lappy was 5205-S704... Any thoughts on other 15.4" model? Any recommendation? Or Canadian model is better due to 400 cd/m2??? Thanks again...

the canadian model is a bit better.... the real challenge is finding another 15.4 that has all the same capabilities and the good looks of the qosmio. personally i say get the qosmio.

rodarapan: Canadian model is leagues better, no doubt. It has the dual-lamp LCD which mine lacks, and if you've ever seen it in action, you wouldn't hesitate. The Canadian model, as Fidget says, is hard to beat, if you're in Canada or have the means to acquire an F20. Any other ?s are just a PM or post away.

-Brian

Thanks for the reply, appreciate it... Will try to get a Canadian model if I
can get my niece to get off from his favorite chair. I noticed that European
and Asian models of Qosmio's have the same 400 cd's screen brightness level.
I've seen one F10 136 model equivalent to F15 AV201 in USA model have the
same screen cd/m2 as well.

Cheers,,,

Unclebrudy, any thoughts on Qosmio F15 AV201? PDF in the Toshiba site's
say's 450 cd/m2. That's more than double than F25 plus the F15 have a
Bluetooth built-in, and 128MB of video RAM but no Core Duo. Seen one on sale
at ubid. Cheers...

Thanks and regards,
roar

have u run it through 3dmark05 or 06?

rodarapan, that is a stellar laptop. It is basically the way the mid-end Qosmio is supposed to be represented, but I am under the assumption that the US' version is lower spec'd because of meeting a specific market price point. And you're right, it is more than double the brightness of mine because it has dual-backlights, which look nothing short of beautiful. The 128mb of discrete memory will help A LOT when running games at the LCD's native resolution. I say get it if you can afford it, you won't be dissappointed (don't forget to right up a little review here @ NBF...we're sorely lacking an F15 review!)

yo chode! My man, how you doing? 3DMark05 run was a hair under 2,100, but that was with Toshiba's stock driver (read: old) and with all the bloatware running full blast in the background, sucking up my cycles. I haven't run 06 yet, and probably won't get around to running a clean 05 because I'm in the process of selling this beauty and am currently restoring it.