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We have collected 3 reviews of the Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290. Experts rate Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290 6/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290 and Toshiba Laptops.
The Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290 offers bleeding-edge technologies--such as auto-stereoscopic, glasses-free 3D--inside a bulky, overweight chassis. The display is gorgeous, and the audio playback quality is good, but they're overshadowed by the machine's heft, as well as its mediocre keyboard and pointing device. And as for the quality of that auto-stereoscopic 3D...well, I’ll get to that shortly. When I first set up the Toshiba F755-3D290, I thought that this particular Qosmio was a 17-inch laptop. It certainly had the heft of a 17-inch laptop, and when I looked at it edge-on, it seemed to be as tall as most 17-inch laptops, too. I realized my error when I popped open the lid and noticed that the display looked awfully small. In fact, this particular F755 variant sports only a 15.6-inch screen. It also weighs a bit over 7 pounds by itself--and a full 8 pounds, 10 ounces if you include the 120-watt power brick. So here’s a laptop that weighs substantially more than the average 15.6-inch notebook PC. What gives? At first blush, the specs don’t look extraordinary. The F755-3D290 ships with an Intel Core i7-2630QM processor, a quad-core, Sandy Bridge CPU clocked at 2.0GHz (up to 2.9GHz in Turbo mode).
The Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290 ($1,699.99 direct) sounds like the stuff of science fiction, with its integrated stereoscopic 3D technology that lets you watch video in 3D without glasses. Unfortunately, this new twist on display technology comes off as gimmicky and pulls down the overall quality of an otherwise well-equipped - if pricey - desktop replacement laptop. While gadget lovers and 3D aficionados may want to snap this up, most will wisely pass in favor of more mainstream alternatives. The Qosmio F755-3D290 features Toshiba's Fusion 3D Finish, a textured metallic red plastic across the lid, with a glossy black finish covering the palm rest and interior. The glossy finish attracts plenty of fingerprints, but the patterned design disguises them fairly well. Measuring 1.5 by 15.3 by 10.5 inches (HWD), the Qosmio F755-3D290 is far from being the slimmest laptop in the desktop replacement category. Part of its girth can be attributed its thick lid and screen - needed in order to accommodate the additional hardware for the glasses-free 3D. This extra hardware contributes to the Qosmio's weight, tipping the scales at 7.5 pounds.
Many of the unique demo units and prototypes seen at the annual CES show don't make it onto store shelves in the near term, if at all (for example, Lenovo's convertible U1 tablet/laptop). Then there's the Toshiba Qosmio F755, which we saw as a 15-inch glasses-free 3D prototype at CES in January, and which is now officially for sale in a single fixed-configuration model. That's a pretty quick turnaround, although the glasses-free 3D market is starting to pick up with help from Nintendo's 3DS handheld gaming system and similar stereoscopic gadgets from Sony and others. Like the CES prototype, the final version of the $1,699 Qosmio F755 has a 15.6-inch display that uses special eye-tracking software to track the viewer's head movements via the built-in Webcam and adjust the stereoscopic image accordingly. But keep in mind that the screen's native resolution is 1080p, but for 3D content, it drops to 720p (actually 1,366x768 pixels). As with a 3D TV, it'll take a few moments to orient your eyes, especially if you're not used to watching 3D content. But we found the eye-tracking feature allowed for a reasonable amount of freedom of movement, and the 3D effect worked from an off-axis side view. However, again because of the tracking feature, it works best for one viewer at a time.