Toshiba is one of the first two laptop manufacturers to bring glasses-free 3D technology to the market–the other one being ASUS with their G53Sx. The new creation is part of Toshiba’s premium desktop replacement series Qosmio and is more specifically called Qosmio F750 3D. Just like the G53Sx, it is equipped with a high-resolution 15.6-inch screen that requires no glasses to watch 3D content and a quad-core Core i7 CPU. However, unlike the G53Sx, the F750 comes with a GeForce GT540M graphics card, which is considerably slower than the GTX 560M in the ASUS 3D laptop. It appears that Toshiba is not targeting gamers with the new Qosmio, which is somewhat disappointing.
Instead, the Toshiba Qosmio F750 3D pushes this one to movie buffs; other than the aforementioned CPU and GPU, it comes with 6GB of RAM, a 640GB hard drive and a Blu-ray burner that supports the BD-XL format that is good for storing up to 100GB. Other features include a speaker system from Herman Kardon, multi-card reader, HD webcam, USB 3.0, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi 802.11n, and – as usual – a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. On the plus side compared to the G53Sx, the F750 is relatively lightweight in its class: 2.9kg/6.3lbs–almost a kilo / two pounds lighter than the competing ASUS laptop.
Toshiba was early on the market with the world’s first glasses-free 3D TV, the Regza GL1, so that the company is now releasing a similar solution for laptops shouldn’t be surprising. Autostereoscopic 3D is definitely an exciting technology in many ways. The main disadvantage with this type of 3D technology (and a frequent issue mentioned with the Nintendo 3DS) is that you can only see the 3D effect from a specific angle. But apparently the computer’s webcam can follow the user’s motion to adapt the 3D angle to your current position. The problem remains if you want to show off the 3D effects to your friends, but on the whole this sounds like a sensible adaptation to the shortcomings of glasses-free 3D.
Toshiba has also added a feature that allows the laptop to display 2D and 3D content on the screen simultaneously, such as having one window active with a 3D movie while browsing the web on the side in regular 2D. It can also convert regular movies into 3D somehow. How well this works remains to be seen. Here’s Toshiba’s promo video for the F750 3D, it’s too bad that you can’t see the 3D effects…
If you have good cooling you could try to overclock your gtx560M, I heard it’s a good overclocker.
To Toshiba’s credit, they also have Qosmio models with a GTX 560M, which is OK. Putting a 540M in this one on the other hand was probably a huge mistake.
From the little research I did, people don’t seem to love the qosimo that much. I don’t think this company should be considered for a good gaming lappy, it seems they are trying hard to get some attention but it is hard to find info about their model and specs from a reseller if there is any.