AnandTech takes a look at the Toshiba A665-3DV laptop, which, as the name implies, is 3-D capable. The laptop has 3-D capable Blu-Ray player in it for you to watch movies with. There is a free Toshiba BD Player, but you might be better served buying PowerDVD 10. At least now there are more 3-D Blu Ray movies to purchase. There used to be only Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs available.
The Toshiba A665-3DV laptop is also capable of playing 3-D enabled games. However, since it is a laptop, the graphics card is only a NVIDIA GTS 350M. The real question is, how good is it?
This is a first generation 3D Vision notebook. What’s that mean? It means the 3D emitter is a separate USB device just like on desktops. There are next generation 3D Vision notebooks coming this fall (Acer’s recently announced Aspire 5745DG for example, scheduled for availability later this month) with the 3D emitter built into the LCD bezel. If you’re ready to buy into the whole 3D experience, integrating the emitter is definitely the way to go. Right now, if you want to take your laptop on the road, you’ll need the power brick and cable, your 3D glasses, the 3D emitter, and possibly an extra USB cable to charge your glasses (though you can use the cable for the emitter). That’s quite a bit of extra “stuff” to carry around, and you’ll also need space to set the emitter when in use. If you have an NVIDIA desktop GPU and a 120Hz LCD, you can use the same 3D Vision kit that comes with the A665-3DV on both systems, but that’s about the only positive for the separate emitter.
