Toshiba becomes the first manufacturer to add the SpursEngine SE1000 – a multimedia co-processor from Cell chip for its two new laptops under the Qosmio AV series. Dubbed Qosmio G50 and F40 line up, the notebooks will be equipped with four of the “Synergistic Processing Elements” from the Cell Broadband Engine processor to deliver stunning graphics by its heavy number-crunching performance.
Besides, both the laptops are also powered by Intel Core 2 Duo operating system with NVIDIA graphic accelerator and would have the ability to enhance the video performance to high-definition and also transcode digital TV to MPEG4 to reduce the size of the file by one-eighth. These latops also integrates 18.4-inch LCD, 500G bytes of hard-disk space, dual digital TV tuners, wireless LAN including 802.11n, 16:9 aspect ratio, an in-built CCD camera with Gesture Control functionality to control video playback with hand gestures.
Apart from the Cell-derived chip, Toshiba Qosmio G50 and F40 series of laptop comes with a face navigation, wherein the devices recognize the faces and showcase it as thumbnail images in an easily searched index. With this, it enables users to play video segments that feature a particular face.
Qosmio G50 and F40 series of notebook PCs also incorporate Scene Thumb, which ensures an exclusive approach for searching a particular action in a video. These user-recorded videos are lined one after another for easy view by just running the cursor over it.
The Toshiba Qosmio G50 will be cost from ¥290,000 (US$2,700) and the Toshiba F50 would retail for ¥250,000.
