Taking a swipe at Alienware and VooDoo, Toshiba has re-launched its Qosmio X305-Q708 as its ‘most powerful gaming laptop to date’. The $4,200 top-of-the-range model comes with nearly every component upgraded.

The high price tag gets you just about every imaginable top-end feature that it’s possible to squeeze into a laptop case:

• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 CPU
• 17-inch display at 1680×1050
• HDMI out, DisplayPort
• Four Harmon Kardon speakers + subwoofer
• 4GB of DDR3 RAM
• 128GB SSD
• 320GB SATA hard drive at 7,200 RPM
• A second 128GB SATA solid state drive
• Dual-layer DVD burner
• 1.3-megapixel webcam
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
• Dual 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics cards set up in SLI mode
• 802.11b/g/n WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• Vista Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit)

The graphics card is set up in hybrid SLI mode so you actually have three graphics processors squishing polygons for your gaming delight! The new X305 also uses a GeForce 9400M as it’s motherboard GPU, just like the Apple MacBook Pro. This allows the machine to switch between high-performance graphics card and low-power-consumption integrated chips when using the battery.

Further performance improvements include a 128GB SSD as the primary ‘drive’ for regular reads/writes and a 320GB hard disk for long-term storage,