Toshiba Kira

TOSHIBA KIRABOOK – DESIGN

Ostensibly the Toshiba Kira is every bit as sleek and premium looking as its competitors. It’s at most 18mm thick, weighs under 1.3kg and is clad, inside and out, in metal. However, it doesn’t quite all come together.
It’s those little design details that let it down. Things like the mismatched corners – the front ones are square, the rear ones rounded – and the rather cluttered looking underside with its swirling grille pattern and oddly large screws just take away from a sense of cohesion.
Open it up and the chromed touchpad surround feels slightly out of place while the rim round the edge of the base looks like something you’d expect of a cheaper device.

TOSHIBA KIRABOOK – FEATURES

When it comes to features, the Toshiba Kira (2015) wants for very little. The headline of this flagship model is its 2,560 x 1,440 resolution touchscreen, though a non-touch 1080p version is also available.
This is joined by connectivity that is a clear step above the rest with not one, not two, but three USB sockets (though only one is USB 3.0), a full-size HDMI socket and your obligatory headphone and SD card sockets. The latter being of the standard half-depth variety, where the card sticks out.
One of the USB sockets also supports sleep and charge so you can charge other devices from it without having the laptop on (though it needs to be plugged in).
Inside it’s capable too and comes armed with the latest quad-core Intel Broadwell Core i7-5500U processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD – double that of most ultrabooks.



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