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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Toshiba Cosmo X 875 this is one of the only new windows 8 17-inch gaming laptops that we've seen and like the handful of other examples of this desktop replacement with discreet graphics category that we've looked at in the post Windows 8 era it doesn't really feel like it's made for Windows 8 because it does not have a touchscreen like pretty much every other Windows 8 laptop so far now for gaming you certainly don't really need one you're probably gonna spend most your time using steam or another system like that and maybe having a gamepad plugged in or at least using a mouse and basically going through the old non Windows 8 UI desktop that being said the rest of the time when you're not gaming that not having that touch screen kind of makes it harder to navigate around this tile based Windows 8 UI you spend a lot of times kind of trying to swipe off the side of the touchpad like that now Toshiba makes one of the only kind of mainstream super high-end 17-inch gaming laptops out there they've made these Cosmo systems for many years this latest version has nvidia geforce 670 m graphics card a quad core full voltage not low-voltage Core i7 processor and it comes in a bunch of different configurations this is kind of a high-end one about 1800 bucks and what you're paying for with that is a blu-ray recordable drive which you don't see very often a 3d system with invidious 3d vision so you get the 3d glasses with it not that you're likely to watch that many 3d blu-rays or play 3d games on it and a hybrid hard drive that's a one terabyte hard drive actually this - one terabyte hard drives and an SSD cache you can actually dial out of those settings back and get the base model of this system which has the same graphics card and this thing your CPU but none of the other bells and whistles for about 1199 that's actually a pretty reasonable deal if you want something that can do really well playing games but isn't gonna cost a fortune now of course with any desktop replacement laptop from the gaming side of the the components are very up-to-date and we've seen this not just from Toshiba but alien wearing other companies the design it's a little dorm room chic there's like red chromed highlights it's big and thick and boxy it doesn't have that sort of aesthetic minimalism that you find in other even very high powered laptops that's kind of the trade-off I think we need to make right now until somebody comes up with a really great-looking Windows 8 gaming laptop with of course a touchscreen I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Toshiba Cosmo x8 75