Toshiba Qosmio G45-AV690 Laptop

Toshiba announced its latest Qosmio G45-AV690 mid-range gaming laptop at CES, the world's first notebook with an HD-DVD-R/RW optical drive. In addition, five HD blockbuster movies were thrown in for good measure. The notebook is available in a piano key-white finish and has the following configuration:

- CPU: Intel Core2Duo T9300 processor, 2.5GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB
- Memory: 3GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 with support for up to 4GB
- Storage: 320GB via two SATA HDDs running at 5400rpm
- Optical Drive: HD DVD-R/RW (Single Layer)/DVD SuperMulti (+/- double layer) drive (in one optical drive) supporting 14 formats
- External OpenCable (OCUR) HDTV Tuner
- Ulead DVD MovieFactory software
- 17" widescreen Ultimate TruBrite® TFT active-matrix LCD display with 1920x1200 native resolution (WUXGA) with 1080p support
- PCI-Express™ x16 graphics subsystem, with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB GDDR2 discrete graphics memory, plus up to 255MB dynamically allocated shared graphics2 memory using NVIDIA TurboCacheTM technology
- 1-bit Digital Amplifier
- Four built-in Harman Kardon Bass Reflex stereo speakers with one Bass Reflex subwoofer
- Dolby Home Theater
- REGZA LINK (HDMI-CEC)
- Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (802.11a/g/n)
- Remote Control
- Embedded Webcam and microphone
- Fingerprint reader

Toshiba Qosmio G45-AV690 costs $3,199.99 with a 1-year limited warranty and is available throughout the U.S.