Toshiba adds G20 to Qosmio range

Qosmio G10 gets updated to G20

26 May 2005 14:47 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Toshiba has today introduced the Qosmio G20 to its range replacing last years Qosmio G10 series and the other two models the Qosmio F10 and E10 series. The new product continues Tohsiba's “4-in-1 experience” and offers TV, Audio, DVD/HDD Recorder and PC

The laptop features a 17-inch display, sensor touch audio/video buttons, lateral volume controls, LCD volume display and remote control. It is also the first device in the Qosmio series to include Toshiba Software RAID technology, which provides robust system performance and data security through simultaneous data storage.

The Qosmio G20 also features SRS WOW XT and TruSurround XT technology and Harman Kardon speakers.

The range will start from £1699 inc vat

Qosmio G20 Technical Specifications

- Intel® Centrino® Mobile Technology
- Intel® Pentium® M processor 730 - 770 (up to 2.13GHz, 533MHz, 2MB 2nd level cache)
- Intel PRO Wireless Network Connection 802.11 b/g
- Intel 915PM Express Chipset family
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
- Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition and QosmioPlayer Remote control and IR receiver

- up to 1GB of memory (expandable to 2048MB)
- Dual hard disk drive support (up to 2x100GB) with Toshiba software RAID capabilities
- QosmioPlayer and QosmioEngine
- Toshiba TruBrite 17.0” WXGA+ display, 1440 x 900 resolution (500cd/m²)
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6600 graphics processing unit with 128MB VRAM
- Ø30mm harman/kardon® stereo speakers and SRS WOW XT & SRS TruSurround XT™ virtual surround sound technology
- DVD Super Multi Drive (Double Layer)
- Integrated i.Link® (IEEE 1394) port, consumer infrared port
- Integrated V.92 modem and 10/100 Ethernet port
- Integrated analog terrestrial TV-Tuner with MPEG2 hardware encoder
- 4 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x PCMCIA (Type II), 1 x ExpressCard
- TV-out, SPDIF, Video-in/out, D-Video out, monitor in/out
- Bridge Media Adapter (supports SD™ Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and x-D Picture Card)
- Microsoft® Office OneNote 2003™, Microsoft Works Suite, Toshiba Picture Enhancement utility, Adobe Acrobat Reader, InterVideo WinDVD, InterVideo WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum, Sonic RecordNow!, ConfigFree connectivity software, Norton Internet Security 2004 (90-day trial version)