http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/toshiba.teams.with.gq.on.limited.notebook.auction/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/toshidesignin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Toshiba has teamed up with GQ magazine on auctioning off notebooks designed by four famous men. The 'artists' include Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, actor and writer Rainn Wilson, rock musician Joe Perry and actor and producer Omar Epps, with each designing the exterior and interior look of four different Toshiba Satellite notebooks.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/toshiba.teams.with.gq.on.limited.notebook.auction/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/14/toshiba.unveils.win.7.pcs.with.no.clutter/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/toshibaa500.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Toshiba on Wednesday updated its notebooks with Windows 7 and a rare promise among Windows PC makers. The company promises that all of its systems running the new OS, including its touchscreen models, will go without any icons on the desktop except for the default Recycle Bin. System performance should get a boost as the PCs will run as little software in the background as possible, in many case... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/14/toshiba.unveils.win.7.pcs.with.no.clutter/ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/toshiba.qosmio.x500.for.us/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/toshibaqosmiox500-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Quickly following the UK release, Toshiba has brought out an American version of the Qosmio X500. The 18.4-inch desktop replacement notebook is the PC builder's first to use a Core i7 processor and revolves around the 1.6GHz quad-core chip's added power for games and movies. It similarly comes with a 1GB GeForce GTS 250M for video. The 1080p display is stock, though for the US release Toshiba n... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/toshiba.qosmio.x500.for.us/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/toshiba.core.i7.powered.qosmio.x500.dated.for.uk/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/toshqosmiox500intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Toshiba UK on Wednesday announced it has added a new flagship gaming notebook, the 18.4-inch Qosmio X500. The system is just the second notebook driven by Intel's mobile Core i7 CPU, which normally runs at 1.6GHz but can operate at 2.8GHz when in Turbo Boost mode. Toshiba also regards it as a media system beyond the processor and gives it both a 1080p display as well as a Blu-ray burner and HDMI-C... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/toshiba.core.i7.powered.qosmio.x500.dated.for.uk/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/12/toshiba.qosmio.fx.gx/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0812/toshibagxintro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Toshiba on Friday introduced three new Dynabook Qosmio-series notebooks for its home territory of Japan, with the multimedia-focused G50 and GX and FX pair meant for gamers with nearly identical specifications. All three feature a dual-core 2.4GHz Intel CPU set into Intel's PM45 Express mainboard and an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics card with a dedicated 512MB of memory, along with 4GB of RAM. ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/12/toshiba.qosmio.fx.gx/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/21/toshiba.qosmio.x305.quad/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0810/toshibaqosmiox305.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Toshiba this morning gave the Qosmio X305 a major upgrade by updating nearly all its architecture. The 17-inch gaming system's new Q708 variant adds a 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme quad-core chip and upgrades from the GeForce 9700M video hardware of before to dual GeForce 9800M GTS graphics chipsets that should provide more desktop-like 3D performance than before. Like the MacBook Pro, however, the X30... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/21/toshiba.qosmio.x305.quad/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/22/45nm.cell.ps3.chip.in.2009/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0809/cellprocessor.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Sony and Toshiba today said they would start producing 45 nanometer versions of the Cell processor next year. The process is 50 percent more complex than the 65 nanometer process used for most current Cell chips and will allow the PlayStation 3 to use both a much smaller and cooler-running processor but also to cost less. Versus the current manufacturing process, the two companies' new technique... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/22/45nm.cell.ps3.chip.in.2009/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/18/geforce.9700m.and.9800m/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0807/nvidiageforce9800mgtx.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA today quietly published details for its two highest-end GeForce 9M series notebook graphics chips following leaks by PC makers. The 9800M line is now NVIDIA's flagship and is much closer to desktop-class graphics than the earlier 9600M; the top-end 9800M GTX has 112 effects processors that compares closely to the 128 of the desktop 9800, suiting it to desktop replacement portables and very... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/18/geforce.9700m.and.9800m/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/15/toshiba.ships.qosmios/ <img align='left' src='http://electronista.macnn.com/content/0706/toshibaqosmiof45.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />With announcements from HP, Lenovo, and Sony, Toshiba also took the opportunity to announce (and ship) new Centrino 2 versions of its recently announced notebooks for faster networking, better performance, and improved battery life. The Satellite Pro S300 laptop, updated with latest Core Duo processor and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, offers Toshiba's fourth-generation EasyGuard techno... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/15/toshiba.ships.qosmios/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/toshiba.qosmio.g55.more/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/toshibaqosmiog55.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Toshiba this morning revealed a near-total overhaul of its Qosmio notebooks with three new models, all of which are the first with new features. The Qosmio G55 is the first-ever notebook to build in a variant of the Cell processor from Sony's PlayStation 3. In the portable, the chip is set to use just four cores but uses them to transcode video far faster than would be possible using the main pr... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/toshiba.qosmio.g55.more/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:15:00 GMT