Toshiba's Qosmio laptop range is not known for its subtleties or for its charms - unlike its Protege range - but then the F50, the G50 and the X300, three newly launched Tosh laptops, were never intended for the same audience.
All three models feature onboard quadcore processors with enough power to match their desktop cousin; these however are not bog standard x86 models but rather Toshiba's new Quad Core HD processors - also known as SpursEngine.
These are specifically targeted at the media market and are based on the Cell architecture - the same that makes up the Playstation 3 - and bring together four Synergistic Processor Elements (SPE) that are dedicated to make media handling a doodle.
More specifically, T3 claims that the machines can upscale bog standard DVDs to HD quality films rather than bundling an expensive Blu-ray drive like many other manufacturers.
On top of that, the laptops are equipped with hand gesture controls using a series of predetermined, hard coded gestures - which the owner won't be able to modify - and which will be captured by the onboard webcam.
