Eriku’s World

Speakers

The fine harman/kardon speakers wisely selected by Toshiba are very impressive indeed. Placed underneath the not-so-pretty metal grills (which traps dusts), the harman/ kardon speakers generate spectacular sound effects of good and clear quality. The effects of the speakers are tangible, even to the most oblivious people. Unlike previous harman/kardon speakers (i.e. Toshiba M100), the loudspeakers in the Qosmio F60 can be adjusted to very high volumes indeed, with only slight compromise on sound quality. These loudspeakers definitely live up to Qosmio’s name; buyers will surely be appalled by what these speakers can do.











Battery Life


Unfortunately, there isn’t much to expect from a 15 incher with a 6-cell battery. The wider screen is more power consuming and the small capacity of the 6-cell battery doesn’t help much either. No 9-cell batteries are available for the Qosmio f60 at the moment. Under the Eco- Utility mode (dimmest brightness), the Qosmio F60 managed to squeeze out 2 hours of normal usage (web browsing). The Eco- Utility showed an average power consumption of 20-25W when Eco- mode is switched on.



Conclusion

The Toshiba Qosmio F60 packs quite a lot of punch for a notebook of  such a niche. If you are looking for a mid-level multimedia notebook with extremely sleek looks, then the Toshiba Qosmio F60 may be worth considering as it certainly lived up to its name as an impressive multimedia notebook. However, the presence of a large numbers of rival notebooks with similar or better specifications may actually decrease the amount of potential buyers where many would probably opt for cheaper alternatives. 

Lastly, i would like to thanks Dr. Tan Ji for providing me photos and also helping me to complete this review ! He had spent endless time to help me and i hope you all will enjoy and appreciate our review! Thank you.  

Touchpad

Touchpad The touchpad is located slightly to the left of the entire palm rest and can be turned on/off via a touchpad button at the top of the touchpad. The activation of the touchpad will be accompanied by a bar of white light which basically indicates the proximity of the touchpad, especially useful when in the dark. The touchpad surface is rough yet providing a pleasant feel as well as grip. In general, touchpad navigation is very sensitive and accurate, provided that you don’t have sweaty palms. Vertical and horizontal scroll areas are not indicated but they do exist. The touchpad buttons come with a shinny chrome-look that is both stylish and effective. However, they do accumulate fingerprints with time. No fingerprint reader is available for the Toshiba Qosmio F60, much to the delight of users (like me) who often gets electrically shocked by it. The function of the fingerprint reader is gradually being replaced by Toshiba’s SmartFace technology.












Performance


Preloaded Software


There is quite a number of software provided by Toshiba for the Qosmio F60. Most programs are universally utilized for all ranges of Toshiba notebooks. However, only a handful of the software actually comes in handy in our daily lives. These include the Toshiba Eco Utility, Toshiba SmartFace Technology, Toshiba Reel Time, Toshiba HDD Protection, Toshiba Bulletin Board and the Toshiba PC Health Monitor.The Toshiba Eco Utility, indicated by the green glowing Earth symbol, is basically a convenient tool that measures the amount of power utilized during usage and is therefore, particularly useful during battery usage. The program actually estimates the amount of power saved/carbon emissions reduced via the user’s power consumption rates. We can all do our part in saving power which we do not need for a greener, better tomorrow. A rather green application by Toshiba [Thumbs up] 

major disadvantage- slow loading. Even with the moderately superior i5-520M of the Qosmio F60, it would still take a short while to load during the 1^st Windows menu. (Slow as in slower than the time taken to swipe a finger or type a password.) So, the SmartFace Technology is still not that convenient at the moment, but it will eventually be better in the future with way shorter load times.

Toshiba Reel Time, one of the most convenient tools by Toshiba, generally allows the user to refer to recently used documents with ease, which can be rather good (or bad if fallen to the wrong hands).

Toshiba HDD Protection basically retracts the HDD into a safe, protected position upon any detection of intense vibrations or falls. A program that should never be disabled.

Toshiba Bulletin Board enables the user to place notes and pictures on a board-like picture as well as customizing shortcuts. The program will also report updates from Toshiba, if any. This application is basically less popular due to the availability of the Sticky Notes (Gadgets) by Windows 7.

Last, but not least, the Toshiba PC Health Monitor constantly checks on the functionality and performance of critical computer parts i.e. power consumption, battery health, HDD status, CPU temperature and fan speed. This will enable easier diagnostics should problems occur with the notebook.

Heat 
In order to address heat issues associated with previous Toshiba models, the Qosmio F60 sees a huge change in terms of the heat dissipation system. Apart from the standard heat sink at the left side of the laptop, large numbers of air vents are placed at the bottom surface of the notebook for better aeration and cooling. The effects of these heat removal mechanisms are apparent; the Qosmio F60 remains cool under normal usage. Of course, the heat increases significantly during intense gaming and strenuous tasks, still, the heat is tolerable compared to other notebooks. Usage of a decent cooler pad is still recommended for better performances and experiences. Although the Qosmio F60 is slightly cooler than its counterparts, the increased numbers of heat sinks are not without their flaws; internal hardware is more prone to short- circuiting upon contacting liquid substances which enter through those sinks. Hence, care must be taken. The fan of the Qosmio F60 is surprisingly quiet and will often go unnoticed during usage, be it normal web-surfing or intense gaming sessions. 

A few simple temperature measurements were taken using SpeedFan 4.0:

Normal usage- web surfing. No notebook cooler. Desktop desk surface. Non- air- conditioned room.

Gaming- Batman Arkham Asylum (1280x768) Very high details setting. No notebook cooler. Desktop desk surface. Non- air- conditioned room.  

Temperatures decreased approximately 2-4°C with the usage of the Cooler Master NotePal U2.

Continue to part 3: http://erikuworld.blogspot.com/2010/05/qosmio-f60-review-part-3.html

You all watch Iron Man 2 or IP Man 2 was so yesterday !

My dream destination will be Japan. In my opinion,Japan can consider as the most advance country in the world . Basically, in Japan, we often will saw a lot of weird and cool gadget that not available at any other world.



Oh, did i mentioned that i'm an otaku? The reason i like Japan because of the anime and manga , in Japan there's an area in Tokyo that called " Akihabara " or "  Akihabara Electric Town " .  The area is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items. New items are mostly to be found on the main street, Chūōdōri, with many kinds of used items found in the back streets of Soto Kanda 3-chome. First-hand parts for PC-building are readily available from a variety of stores. Tools, electrical parts, wires, microsized cameras and similar items are found in the cramped passageways of Soto Kanda 1-chōme (near the station). Foreign tourists tend to visit the big name shops like Laox or other speciality shops near the station, though there is more variety and lower prices at locales a little further away. Akihabara gained some fame through being home to one of the first stores devoted to personal robots and robotics.
One of the unique that Japan had to attract a lot of tourist was their sakura flower. The flower normally only blooms in spring and in Japan there's a culture where the sakura season arrived , they will bring all their family member to sakura-sakura park in Japan to have a picnic , this called " Hanabi " . It was also 1 of my wish to be able to picnic with my family and my beloved in such a wonderful pink world. 


Transportation in Japan was unable to describe by the word " incredible " especially the Japanese's bullet train or shinkansen . It was consider one of the fastest train in the world that had perfect record which was no accident being reported before. I wouldn't be surprise to see the perfect record as Japanese always concern about the safeness of everything. I had never travel with high speed train before and i will like to give my virgin high speed train experience to Japanese's bullet train. 


The ancient Japan world ! I'm always curious about how's the life of ancient japanese as they had grown so modern in 21st century. Apparently , Osaka Castle still exist and it played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. This is the reason why i wanted to visit Japan as to explore the history and ancient life of the japanese. 


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Went to Pikom PC Fair held in KL Convention Centre on Friday. The PC fair had causes massive jams around KLCC as thousand of tourist as well as local flood into the centre. I arrived at KLCC around 3.40 pm and go back at 8.45 pm, it takes such a long time because it consist of a few big hall that full of PC and other booth. Besides, i had snapped some picture as well as took it some of the content and picture from www.lowyat.net because i was busy looking for my PC accessories , so i did not snap some of the part which will be replaced by lowyat's picture.