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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at two Sheba's new Kiera book this is part of a new cure line of products from Toshiba it's their super top end line above the satellite the portage a the tetra the Cosmo whatever else they have the only product in that cure line right now is this the Kiera book it is a 13 inch laptop looks and feels a lot like other 13-inch ultra book style laptops including some that Toshiba makes the big difference here is that this guy has a very very high resolution screen Toshiba calls it pixel pure and it's about 25 and change by 1440 that's the screen resolution it's very similar to what you would get in an Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display laptop even though obviously Toshiba does not want you to make that comparison they really do want you to kind of make that comparison another great comparison between the retina MacBook Pros and the q book is in price this guy starts out at $15.99 and that's for a 13-inch you know Core i5 laptop and it goes up to $19.99 that's actually the version we have here because this thing adds a core i7 processor and it adds a touchscreen that's right the $15.99 base model does not have a touchscreen on mac books you expect that but for a Windows laptop that's actually kind of crazy for that price editing touchscreen it's actually $200 more so $15.99 16 $17.99 just to get the core i5 version with a touchscreen now Toshiba is hoping that the super-high resolution screen is going to be worth that to you in addition to the very very nice materials and construction this thing is made of a magnesium alloy that's actually lighter and stronger than aluminum this is actually lighter than a comparable 13-inch MacBook it's it's got a smaller footprint it's a little bit thicker however as a laptop this performs great it's got a nice big touchpad it's got a a keyboard that's better than the keyboards on the other Toshiba ultrabooks that we've tested the question is is it $2,000 nice when you can get a perfectly good Ultrabook from Toshiba for eight and that's where I think this system misses the mark a little bit you want a $1600 two thousand dollar laptop to really wow you and the design here is very nice but it doesn't look like a two thousand dollar laptop I think they needed to go a little bit more out there with the design to really pull you in some other guys have done that with expensive laptops whether it's the retina MacBook Pros or the samsung series 9 or the Acer Aspire s7 you know these systems may not have been worth though what they were asking for him but they certainly took the paint's to look different enough so you really felt like it was something that there wasn't a regular laptop anyway I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Toshiba Kyra book