Toshiba Kira Ultra-Extreme This evaluation

Toshiba introduced new products in the last two years is not fast, it seems that Toshiba is more determined to take the fine line, and no longer follow the market in the rhythm of other brands blindly push new, as Toshiba's current top-end ultra-polar Ben, Kira is absolutely the current Toshiba product line of rare masterpiece. Although this product has already appeared in the first half of last year, but has never had the opportunity to take the product in the hands of the careful evaluation of the game. Then the following will take you into this late Toshiba Kira Ultra-Extreme this review.

In fact, from the hardware you can already feel the Toshiba Kira High-end positioning, although the fuselage is only 13 inches in size, but with this size is very rare 2560x1440 Ultra HD resolution IPS touch screen, can be said in the display effect, Toshiba has done its utmost to make Kira perfect. In addition to other hardware features, the machine is equipped with the Haswell platform's i7 4500U low-voltage processor, 8GB memory, 256GB SSD, and CPU-integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 core graphics. In addition, Toshiba's high-end ultra-polar products are also equipped with Harman audio and keyboard backlight. The overall configuration makes it almost impossible to find anything wrong. It is not known whether the details of each aspect can be as balanced as the overall hardware configuration.

The fuselage is made of a U-shaped ultra-thin design top cover frame

Since last year, Toshiba began to try a new model, the new machine has basically adopted a similar U-shaped design, the fuselage is rounded and the fuselage of the front edge more angular, according to the traditional examination standards, many consumers will have a body design of the illusion, but this is quite creative design. In the body material design, Toshiba still uses the high-end model will use the metal material, the surface treatment is more metal sense. Fuselage from A to C face to D, except the screen of all fuselage parts are the same kind of metal material processing, although the overall lack of a little change, but also look more unified.

The overall size of the body is very light and portable, the fuselage with 13.3-inch design, the body's bare metal weight of 1.35kg, thickness of 19.8mm, although the overall vision is very thin, but compared to the current market high-end ultra-extreme originally said, 19.8mm thickness does not have the advantage.

Although the overall shape of the design, Kira has maintained a degree of relaxation of Toshiba's consistent visual style. But the details of this test prototype seem Kira to be completely satisfactory. Through careful observation, we found that the front end of the test prototype part of the work is not very safe, the metal top cover and the screen of the rubber frame merge is not very close, with the finger can follow the seam of the top cover pry out the seam. In addition, the screen border on the rubber material and the distance of the border is not completely parallel, showing that the top of the left side of the rubber will be slightly prominent, and the right side of the metal lid slightly prominent, touch up a little bit scraping hands. I think if this is a 5000-dollar notebook, then such a work can be satisfactory, but to know that the price of Kira is as high as 14999 yuan, so the so-called one cent of the price of goods, I personally feel that 14999 yuan to buy the top edge of the notebook has a scraping hand problem, This is not to be forgiven. Of course, this may be a test prototype of the individual problems, I hope the official listing of the model does not exist such a problem.

Screen effect leading display delicate

Speaking of Toshiba Kira the biggest selling point in addition to light and portable, but also to say ultra-high-definition IPs screen, Toshiba Kira equipped with leading the same level of ultra-high-grade 2560x1440 resolution IPS ultra-clear touch screen, the surface covered with Corning gorilla anti-scratch glass. As a 13.3-inch ultra-polar, the screen display of the delicate degree of natural needless to say, ultra-clear screen allows users to more clearly observe the desktop files, but also in the preview mode to more accurately determine the files to be queried. Screen material for the IPs wide viewing angle screen, the latitude of the user in the visual angle is very large. In addition, the display of the gorgeous extent, the performance of the screen is very good, the saturation of the color compared to some of the low-end IPs screen to be a lot better, users in this screen can fully experience more than the general product of visual enjoyment.

Of course, ultra-high-score screen brings the drawbacks are very obvious, although the new version of the Win8.1 has been optimized for ultra-high-score screen, but in including web compatibility, software window scaling, software font scaling and other aspects still do not good, in many cases will appear too small or the appearance of a vague font, Microsoft has no control over the creation of third-party software, which is still an unavoidable problem under Windows. But the same ultra-high-score screen in the Apple OS X system will not have this problem, the system mechanism is still not detailed here, after all, and Toshiba's product itself does not have much of a relationship.

Keyboard feel good touch panel positioning sense on the best

In the design of the keyboard, Toshiba has always adopted a completely flat key cap design, compared to some brands using the design of the fingertip Radian, completely flat design actually in the feel and there is no advantage. But integrated in the Kira keyboard using a more reasonable key and elastic design, so that the entire keyboard feel particularly comfortable, to a certain extent offset the pure flat key cap some negative effects. In the direction key design, the machine does not use some other notebooks commonly used to integrate PgUp and PgDn into the design, but retains the traditional keyboard layout design. This design actually helps the directional key to function independently and prevents the user from mistakenly hitting the wrong touch.

In addition to the touch panel design, although the machine has also adopted an integrated hidden button design, but the overall touch panel feel better than the mainstream of the market on the main touch panel design, in the one-piece touch panel Kira trackpad can be said to be a very good positioning, to use a user a leisurely sense of use. By pressing the button, the user will be able to feel the success of clicking the target in the first time, rather than giving the user a feeling of not being neat like many of the integrated touch panels. Overall, in the keyboard and trackpad design, Toshiba Kira still performance is quite good, absolutely can give users a pretty good input feel.

Interface design rich practical and strong details of the general workmanship

Toshiba in the ultra-thin design of this interface has been adhering to the principle is to allow users to get the most convenient and practical interface, this idea in Toshiba's high-end ultra-thin on the embodiment of the very in place. Even a very thick VGA interface was integrated in the previous Toshiba Z830 and Z930 machines. And in Kira, rich integration has the characteristics of high practicality can also be preserved. On the left and right sides of the fuselage are integrated with 3 USB3.0 interface (1 of which support sleep charging function), the other full-size HDMI interface practicality is self-evident, of course, there are also SD card slot and headset interface. In fact, this is a kind of design that I feel appreciate, with more eye-catching lightning interface, Instead of giving users more than a USB3.0 interface, especially for Chinese users, although the Lightning interface in the performance of more advantages, but the current market on the Lightning interface equipment is not too much, more extensive equipment or to use USB3.0 to connect. Overall, Kira interface design is quite good, the practicability and rationality of the interface is strong, deserves praise.

But the interface is not completely perfect, although the design is more scientific and reasonable, but the interface and the body of the work is still missing parts, from the USB interface and the aperture of the HDMI interface can even see the interior of the light, so the spacing for a top-level super-pole This is still a little rough, There is no such problem with the models that are expected to be officially listed.

Power key gather energy ring design pleasing to the eye sound good performance

In addition to the design of the body part of the fuselage, many other parts of the design are clearly worth saying. The power key around the fuselage uses a "poly-energy Ring" design, which has appeared in Toshiba's notebook new products since last year, the decorative effect is quite obvious. In the power-on state, the color of the "ring" is white, and in the body standby state, the "poly-energy Ring" color is orange, for the user to distinguish the standby state has certain help.

In addition, as the highest-end ultra-polar product of Toshiba, Kira also uses the Harman/kardon (Harman) sound system, which usually has the quality of the Toshiba notebook with this sound system reaching the upper and lower levels of the same level notebook. Through the actual trial of the Kira, we found that the sound quality of Kira is still basically worthy of the Harman brand, as a so thin ultra-polar can also be issued a pleasant and rich level of music is not easy.

Processor performance is thin and light in the upper level

Before we mentioned the Toshiba Kira Super-Location top, equipped with a I7-4500U dual core four thread low-voltage processor, this processor uses 22nm stage process, the frequency is 1.8GHz, the core to 3.0GHz, two cache space to reach 4MB,TDP 15W. It can be said that this processor is a good combination of computational processing performance and core graphics part of the performance.

In the Processor Performance Test section we use the more comparative significance of the Cinebench 11.5来 test, cinebench the industry recognized a benchmark software, at home and abroad mainstream media, most of the system performance test can see it figure. It uses the cinema 4D special effects software engine developed by the company for the film and television industry to test the performance of the CPU and graphics. The single core and multi-core tests are calculated separately, and in addition they provide OpenGL testing. Toshiba Kira I7-4500U Low-voltage processor in the test to obtain a single core 1.09pts fraction, and in the multi-core collaboration, the machine has achieved good results in 2.86pts, the overall satisfactory.

Hard drive read rate up to 508mb/s

On the hard drive, Toshiba's Kira Ultra-polar selection is its own Toshiba 256GB SSD (THNSNJ256GMCT), after testing the performance of this SSD is still very surprising, the reading rate reached 508.02mb/s, and the write rate can be achieved 461.79mb/s , the overall performance is satisfactory.

The core graphics are hard to come by.

Because of the positioning of a thin ultra-polar, so the design of the graphics card Toshiba's designers did not give it more drama. Toshiba Kira uses the integrated core graphics HD 4400 in i7-4500u, although HD 4400 has some performance improvements over the previous generation of HD 4000, but we still cannot ask for more, after all, HD 4400 is not a sharp-core display, and performance gains are quite limited. The 66.52-frame performance at the 1366x768 resolution level of Street Fighter 4. And in the 2560x1440 resolution can barely keep at 34.38 frames fluent level above, should be the old saying: How much is more? What bike do you want? For Toshiba Kira, it has been quite rare.

Overall performance is very impressive, the battery life is generally

In the testing of the overall performance of the hardware system, we are using the latest PCMark 8 of the Futuremark company. PCMark 8 is a set of test packages for comprehensive performance analysis of PC systems, PCMark 8 uses a sub-test approach, which differs from the previous one-the previous version of PCMark, although also having different sub-items, requires users to debug in the Setup project, While PCMark 8 classifies individual items directly, we must select one of them before testing, which are home, Creative, work, Storge, and applications. As an ultra-high-end, we chose the test sub-item is work, through testing, finally Toshiba Kira got 3909 of the total, the life time reached 4 hours 10 minutes (PCMark 8 of the pre-valuation is usually not allowed), the overall performance of the system is more satisfactory, According to Windows default estimate, the endurance should be about 8 hours, the overall satisfactory.

Full Text Summary: Overall excellent workmanship to improve

Although did not do a lot of publicity and propaganda, but Toshiba Kira from the launch has been a high-end ultra-extreme this one of the more attention, with leading the same level of ultra-high-grade 2K screen really let Kira have a kind of aristocratic feeling beyond other ultra-extreme, 2K screen not only in the display of the delicate degree of good performance, The same is true in the color-rendering reduction, which can be said that the 2K screen is the most dazzling halo of Kira.

In addition to the excellent performance of the 2K screen, Kira is also impressive in the design of the fuselage and the feel of the keyboard and touchpad. The entire fuselage is made of metal, lightweight and portable, and the weight of the 1.35kg allows users to experience the convenience of a mobile office. Harman's sound system performance allows Kira to use the experience to further add value, creative U-shaped body design in the current notebook super-market is unique. These are the advantages of Kira and the commendable point. But even so, I'm still reluctant to give Kira a high score, for two reasons.

First, Kira in the details of the work can not let me feel satisfied, compared to the same class top ultra-Kira, the workmanship of the quality is really not outstanding. In the screen border to the extent of the match is really poor, I hope this is only the individual Kira test prototype existence phenomenon.

Another is the high-end flagship super can not avoid the price problem, the machine has been listed since the price is relatively strong, has been maintained at 14999 Yuan High, for ordinary users, a kira=macbook Airx2, such a price level can be described by the sky, Of course, high 2K screen applications are the main reason for their high prices. It is also suggested that Toshiba be able to make this high-end super-priced back to the rational price, in order to attract more consumers to buy. Good product even if earn applause, also still unable to buy, such embarrassment will only let Toshiba high-end super pole in the market again and again hurt. Sony retired from the market, I hope Toshiba can take a good look, learn from it.