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it's a premium laptop with a couple of lesson premium touches I'm dan ackerman and this is the 2015 version of toshiba's kirabook this is toshiba's highest end consumer laptop it came out a couple of years ago and it's had a couple of updates since then each time keeping essentially the same body in the same shape same design upgrading the processor and doing some better stuff on the price and making sure that features such as a touchscreen which we always think is very important our standard rather than something you'd have to add on the original cure book we looked at was a direct competitor apples retina MacBook Pro in that it had a better than HD resolution which it still does it was in a very slim attractive well-designed aluminum chassis with kind of me a brushed metal accents our problem originally was that the kirabook was very expensive one of the two thousand dollars and if you just got the like $1,500 entry-level model it didn't even have a touchscreen well a couple of generations later now the single $1,500 configuration you can get has the touch screen it's got a high-end core i7 processor it's got a big solid state hard drive so a lot of premium stuff going on there and of course you still have that dough 2560 x 1440 not 4k but better than HD screen is really becoming the standard for a lot of higher and laptops this guy has a feature they pulled over from another high-end toshiba system and that is the chroma tomb software by technical and that lets you set the color temperature on the screen it's mostly for people doing professional photo and video editing although this system does not have a discrete graphics card so it may not be the best for super high-resolution video editing so it has all these great features packed in for a fairly reasonable price what's not to like about the kirabook two things that have bothered me off and on over the last couple of generations of the system that I have reviewed never won the keyboard keys are kind of small feel a little plastic E and classy under the fingers although there's no flex when you press down hard so I appreciate that and secondly the touchpad in different generations at the system I've had different responses from the touchpad we're trying to use two finger gestures so in 2015 we're back again to things like two finger scroll feeling kind of like maggie and that really takes away from the premium experience especially compared to something like a macbook where the touchpad really just gets top priority in terms of responsiveness i'm dan ackerman and that's the 2015 version of the toshiba kirabook