Toshiba announced today that they've starting shipping the Qosmio
G45-AV680. According to their press release, the Qosmio is the first notebook computer in the U.S. to feature an HD DVD-R drive.
Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the
availability of the Qosmio G45-AV680, a cutting-edge audio-video notebook computer with Dolby surround sound technology and the first
U.S. model to feature an HD DVD-R optical drive and full 1080p playback resolution.
As the first U.S. notebook computer with an
HD DVD-R optical drive, the Qosmio notebook provides users with a state-of-the-art multimedia machine that can burn up to 30 GB of data,
including home-videos, entire photo albums and music libraries onto a single HD DVD recordable disc. In addition to storage capacity, the
HD DVD-R optical drive also plays HD DVD movies at a resolution six times sharper than the DVD format.
The Qosmio G45-AV680
also comes equipped with a 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 17-inch widescreen LCD, GeForce 8600GT graphics card and dual 160GB hard
drives, resulting in an estimated price of about $3200. More information, including a full list of specs, can be found here.
