Toshiba's 4K Laptop Gets US Price and Release Date
We saw a lot of 4K TVs at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year; more than you could shake a stick at. But we also saw some 4K laptops, including one offering from Toshiba. Dubbed the Satellite P55t, Toshiba claimed the title of 'world's first Ultra HD 4K laptop' when it announced the notebook back in January. Unfortunately, the company wouldn't talk specs or release date beyond 'mid-2014.' We hadn't been expecting to see the P55t until May or June, but Toshiba today announced that the laptop is coming to the U.S. market this month.
The P55t packs a 15.6-inch Ultra HD display with a 3,840 x 2,160 resolution and a pixel density of 282 PPI. The laptop is powered by Intel's 4th gen quad-core Core i7 CPU coupled with AMD Radeon R9 M265X graphics with 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM and 16 GB of DDR3L RAM. There's also 1 TB of HDD storage on board as well as a Blu-ray drive, HDMI out, USB 3.0 x 4, Harman Kardon stereo speakers, SD/SDHC slot, WiDi, WiFi, Bluetooth 4, and Windows 8.1. The laptop will also come with a full version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.
Pricing for this is $1,499, and it will be available at Toshiba.com/us next Tuesday, April 22.
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Battery quality will be utter crap.
It's dimensions and weight are from 3-4 years ago
Standard HDD versus SSD and Flash memory!? Are you serious. Laptops are getting 400-1200 MB/s
Battery quality will be utter crap.
Yeah, the battery life is the only thing I'd worry about but the price isn't too outrageous.
considering that gpu won't be able to perform at 4k, this system seems like a waste of time/money.
It will probably work better then a retina MacBook on integrated graphics.
Are you going to suggest 1920x1080 on a 15.6 inch screen is a marketing gimick too? The difference is noticable.
considering that gpu won't be able to perform at 4k, this system seems like a waste of time/money.
Your definition of "perform" is most likely different than the market that Toshiba is trying to capture. The fact that Toshiba is packaging the laptop with Photoshop Lightroom tells me that they're aiming for the photographers looking for a mobile solution for editing. You don't need tremendous GPU power to display high resolution images. As another reader commented, even Macbooks can rely on integrated graphics solutions.
I would love more resolution than 1920x1080 on a laptop. I admit that Windows applications still need to resolve some scaling issues for ultra HD screens. But these specs definitely interest me and my needs.
considering that gpu won't be able to perform at 4k, this system seems like a waste of time/money.
I couldn't find any benchmarks for the R9 M265X. How do you know it won't perform at 4K?
It is an underclocked R7 250/7730. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-240-and-250,3717.html
it is a gaming laptop... look at the gpu
yeah it is with a screen size that small
really then show me an actual diff show me how much diff it is on a screen that size.
that is why it is a bit ridiculous