A decent multimedia notebook, but it’s not exciting enough for the price.

A stunning way to enjoy HD DVD, but the wonderful design and features come at a price

Toshiba has now introduced a laptop with a HD-DVD drive. And gave us details on HD-DVD.

The Qosmio is the absolute pinnacle in multimedia notebooks. It brings everything you need for a good Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) system and squeezes it into a notebook form-factor. Albeit a large notebook form-factor. Yes the Qosmio is a huge and heavy notebook, but it's not nearly as heavy as it would have been if it was packed with desktop internals as many desknotes of this size usually are.

Toshiba this week unveiled a new line of laptops optimised for video and audio playback that include a "quick-start" feature which gets the notebook ready for television viewing or CD playing in just seconds.