It finally has an official name, a shipping date and specs. The new Qosmio, dubbed the G35-AV650, will be available at Toshiba's website on May 12^th and hitting retail markets on May 15^th. The AV650 will have the highly anticipated HD-DVD Rom and the HDMI Output port. The bad news is that this is a read-only drive. If you want the actual HD DVD burner, you might want to wait for the next Qosmio revision. Also, there are only a handful of HD DVD movies currently available, but it's a growing list. You can find a total of 18 titles on Amazon's site.

Below is a side by side comparison of the AV650 and our current Editor's Choice.

Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV650                                     

Intel Core Duo T2500(2.0Ghz)                        

Dual 100GB(200GB) hard drives                                

1920x1200 Native Resolution                                      

1080p                                                                         

1024MB RAM                                                           

HD-DVD Rom                                                            

Nvidia GeForce Go 7600, 256MB                              

Windows XP Media Center                                         

$2999                                                                         

HDMI Out                                                                  

Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600

Intel Core Duo T2400(1.83Ghz)

Dual 80GB(160GB) hard drives

1440x900 Native Resolution

720p

1024MB RAM

Dual Layer DVD Burner

Nvidia GeForce Go 7300, 512MB

Windows XP Media Center

$2399