Toshiba Qosmio G50 Multimedia Notebook

By Nick Mokey
June 25th, 2008

While Americans still seem to prescribe to the old “bigger is better” mantra when it comes to cars, houses, and gas-station soft drinks, there’s no question that in the realm of laptops, smaller is sexier. Miniature notebooks like the MacBook Air, Asus Eee, and Lenovo X300 have proven that point over and over in the past year by successfully spinning small size into sales. But despite the trend, not all notebook manufacturers have been ignoring the other side of the spectrum.

Toshiba’s new Qosmio G50 laptop runs against conventional notebook logic by not only going big, but going bigger than ever before. It follows Acer’s Gemstone 8920 through the recently broken 17-inch size barrier with an enormous 18.4-inch screen. With all that viewing area and a native resolution that exactly matches that of 1080p HD content, Toshiba is pushing the G50 as the ultimate portable movie machine.

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