Toshiba Unveils First HD DVD-R Laptop January 18, 2007

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Those lucky Japanese shoppers. From next month they will be able to get their grubby little mitts on the world’s first laptop with an integrated HD DVD burner.

There are already HD DVD readers in some laptops, like the Qosmio G30 but the new G30A/97A will have the first HD DVD writer. Other notable features are dual 160GB hard disk drives, 1GB of Ram and a big 17in widescreen display with a resolution of 1920 x 1,280 pixels for showing off those high-def movies.

It will also sport the all-important HDMI input and a digital TV tuner. It is priced at over £1,600 in Japan which means you can easily add another £500 to the tag by the time it gets here later in the year. 15Gb write-once discs will be out there for around £6 - again, that's there, not here.

One last thing, don’t fool yourself that this will be suitable for mobile working as it weighs in at nearly 5Kg.-Martin Lynch

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