The first 4K laptop

[Polymathic]

Open your pocketbooks, 4K fans, Toshiba's first Ultra HD laptop is headed your way next Tuesday. The Tokyo-based electronics maker just announced that the Toshiba Satellite P55t will hit U.S. store shelves on April 22, starting at $1,500 for the base model.

For all that cash you'll get a 15.6-inch laptop with a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (no word on the specific model), up to 16GB RAM, an AMD Radeon R9 M265X discrete graphics card with 2GB RAM, and a 1TB hard drive. Other niceties include Windows 8.1, four USB 3.0 ports, backlit keyboard, SD card slot, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, HDMI out, and some brand name speakers from Harman Kardon.

But the big feature for the P55t is the laptop's screen resolution, which is 3840-by-2160 with 282 pixels per inch. Astute 4K fans will note that Toshiba's new clamshell is using the Ultra HD version of 4K and not the 4096-by-2160 resolution favored by the film industry and available on some external monitors.

In addition to its Ultra HD resolution, Toshiba's laptop earned Technicolor Color Certification, promising more natural-looking colors and "true-to-life imagery." Toshiba is also bundling a free copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 to take advantage of all that 'glorious Technicolor.'

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2143...ptop-toshibas-satellite-p55t-coming-soon.html

 

[TehStranger]

Can always do with higher resolution laptops. Sounds great, but that thing looks hideous.

 

[Purply]

Damn, and here I thought WOW, 4k for a laptop, now we talking, heck it even comes with an i7, bargain!!!

*sigh*

 

[supersunbird]

Damn, and here I thought WOW, 4k for a laptop, now we talking, heck it even comes with an i7, bargain!!!

*sigh*

Also read that as R4000 when seeing thread title. I prefer the name ultra HD...

 

[Polymathic]

Can always do with higher resolution laptops. Sounds great, but that thing looks hideous.

Free copy of Lightroom and pretty decent price considering the specs, it's an option for an upgrade for my PC

 

[Polymathic]

Also read that as R4000 when seeing thread title. I prefer the name ultra HD...

The thing is Ultra definition comes in two flavours 4k and 8k

 

[MKFrost]

Not interested and will never again buy any Toshiba product. Had a Toshiba Qosmio laptop, i7 Q720, 18.5" backlight display etc... and had endless problems with it overheating. In winter it was fine but in summer I had to have a fan on the desk blowing on it the whole time together with one of those things with the fans you put under the laptop.

With all of that it still ran at around 80 deg. Contacted Toshiba a couple of times and they said it was normal for that laptop to run around the 80 deg mark. Also a very poorly designed laptop as you cannot get to the fans unless you essentially strip the whole laptop. Never again a Toshiba, thank you.

 

[TJ99]

Only $1500? Would be a bargain if it actually sold at that price in SA. But we all know it's going to be more like R30k

 

[Polymathic]

Not interested and will never again buy any Toshiba product. Had a Toshiba Qosmio laptop, i7 Q720, 18.5" backlight display etc... and had endless problems with it overheating. In winter it was fine but in summer I had to have a fan on the desk blowing on it the whole time together with one of those things with the fans you put under the laptop.

With all of that it still ran at around 80 deg. Contacted Toshiba a couple of times and they said it was normal for that laptop to run around the 80 deg mark. Also a very poorly designed laptop as you cannot get to the fans unless you essentially strip the whole laptop. Never again a Toshiba, thank you.

Lenovo also are going release a 4K laptop soon

 

[GoofySmurf]

ROFL yeh lets put a 4k display on a display so small that no one can really see the difference.

 

[Sensorei]

I'd much rather stick with a retina Macbook Pro.

 

[Del Piero 10]

I'd like to when Asus or Dell comes out with a 2 in 1 ultrabook with that sort of resolution.

 

[Nerhzelok]

Most windows laptops look like poo, tbh... Except for the HP Envy and Vizio laptops.

 

[Zyzzyva]

Glad to see 4K screens are getting cheap enough to put in laptops. The quicker we say goodbye to visible pixels the better.

 

[xera]

I'd much rather stick with a retina Macbook Pro.

+1

I would rather buy a 4K laptop in 17" or greater anyway

 

[ponder]

I'd much rather stick with a retina Macbook Pro.

But I bet if apple brought out a 4k mbp you would jump on it