Sorry for the delay between the last part and this part - I was ill, and GTA IV was released

So anyway, I have no screenshots, as the laptop has been formatted in order for it's return later today. However I can say that apart from the very latest games, such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (CoD4) etc. This laptop managed to run everything on full settings.

The games I tried out on the laptop (albeit briefly tried) were:

• The Sims 2 (incl. Nightlife)
• Command & Conquer 3 Kane Edition
• CoD4
• Black & White 2
• Half Life 2/Counterstrike Source
• Unreal Tournament 2004

For a little run down of the games and how they looked and performed, click below

Sims 2

This ran very well, as I expected it would, however I did find that there was an issue with the particular graphics card in the laptop, which caused the game to stop displaying anything. However when this ocurred Vista recovered the driver and play could resume normally. Overall a decent experience however.

C&C 3

Now I've been a fan of C&C games for a LONG time, I even have the 1st one in it's original packaging somewhere! I enjoyed playing this game on full settings, it made it feel like a totally different game (normally when I play it on my own laptop I have to play on low settings :'(). That said, I thoroughly enjoyed playing the game on this laptop, there was no lag whatsoever, I'll miss playing it at such a high screen resolution on full graphics.

CoD4

Now this game is only around 8 months old I believe (I can't remember exactly), so I didn't expect it to perform quite as well as the others, knowing how large the game is (I have it on Xbox 360). I was quite correct in my thinking as well as it turns out. Though the laptop will play the game on full settings at 1920x1200, it runs slow and isn't really that playable. Needless to say I only tried the training level (again - I've completed it on the Xbox 360). So this is my basis for not recommending brand new games on the machine.

Black & White 2

I've never been able to play this game on full settings on any of the PC's I own, so to do so at the full HD screen resolution was brilliant. The game was still good, and the fact the graphics were a massive improvement over any time I've played the game before was just a huge bonus. It improved the desire to play to say the least. Sadly I never got time to finish the game while I had the laptop (mainly because I somehow managed to corrupt the Windows install so had to use the recovery disc :p)

Half Life 2/CS: Source

I never really played Half Life 2 all that much, but I can say that it looked good (I'm not the biggest HL fan to be honest). However I did give CS: Source quite a bit of play time. I enjoyed it, the graphics were a lot better than the last time I played it I had a laugh while playing it online, and miraculously it didn't kill my router

Unreal Tournament 2004

I'm a big fan of this game as well I literally had all the settings maxed out - and little something I never managed to find in UT2004 before (I'll possibly tell you what it was another time if you ask nicely). And I enjoyed playing it, ran perfectly smoothly, I even got some online play in (I didn't know there was still servers for it!) I'm still waiting on UT3 for the Xbox 360

As I mentioned in part 1 of this review, the Qosmio has a HD DVD-R Drive Now as I have a few HD-DVD's, I figured I would try this out. Especially given that it also sports a Full 1080p HD Screen!

So I popped in the HD DVD (The Matrix if you must know) and the HD DVD player launched. I have to admit, this slowed the system down a little, and changed the theme to Windows Vista basic, however I expected this, as playing HD content requires a lot of processing power.

I should also mention that if I paused the movie, and minimised the player window, I was able to do other things (i.e. yesterday I was torrenting the new Ubuntu 8.04 release all day).

So, overall, combined with the killer audio system, the HD DVD playback was brilliant, the images were sharp, black's were very dark etc. I think the sharpness of the image was helped a little by the small 17" screen - It's small when you consider I watch HD movies on a 37" screen usually - however I can't really say much more than this, other than the playback was flawless So I've attached some screenshots, though I don't know how good the image quality will be, I know it won't do justice to the HD images

I'm not bothered though, as there's still many films available for HD DVD I read the rumors as I'm sure a lot of other people did over the weekend that Toshiba were pulling out of the HD DVD production, but I read the final news on the BBC News website earlier this morning.

So it's been good, and in the end the superior (albeit more expensive) format won. Congrat's, it's just a shame it's a Sony Corp technology.

So I bought the add-on for my Xbox 360, for £50 ($97 US) which is around half the retail price everywhere I've seen. The HD-DVD I got with it was The Kingdom. I've also got the following ordered though a couple are out of stock on Play.com:

• Apollo 13
• The Last Samurai
• Music And Lyrics
• The Bourne Supremacy

I'm looking forward to getting them, as so far the picture has been brilliant (though I've seen Full Metal Jacket in "HD" and it was worse than the normal DVD) as my TV supports 1080p input I may post short reviews of the films when I've watched them.