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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the toshiba satellite u 925 t now that rather generic sounding name doesn't really tell you what this Kwasi laptop does I call it a quasi laptop it's really what we call it convertible or to some sort of hybrid light combination of a laptop and a tablet in this case instead of the screen flipping around or swiveling or rotating what it does is the screen folds down and then slides over the keyboard leaving you with something that is very slate like you see the keyboard is hidden inside and then when you want to use it as a regular laptop again you put it down you slide the screen back and then you lift it up like this now we've actually seen this before sony had one call the duo 11 that was very similar it's it's screen kind of more popped up rather than slid but I like this version a lot better for a couple of reasons number one the angle of the screen here is actually adjustable so you can get a better angle for it depending on how you're sitting where the lights are and much more importantly or perhaps equally importantly the Toshiba version has a touchpad down here whereas the Sony version in order to make it smaller and save space got rid of the touchpad just had a little optical track point right in the middle that was frankly not very practical it turns out even if you're using the touchscreen and you're using it as a tablet and you have a keyboard that works fine it still really do kind of need a touch pad for a lot of things and that's probably the one area you shouldn't really cut compared to a lot of the other new windows 8 designed laptops and convertibles hybrids we're seeing this is actually reasonably priced it's 1150 and for that you get a 128 gig SSD and an Intel Core i5 CPU which means that it's basically on par with a lot of the other ultra books that we've seen earlier this year maybe without the sliding screen and the touch screen you'd probably pay maybe 899 900 dollars for something roughly comparable sort of component-wise it is a little bit of a premium for this experience but of the different convertibles and hybrids and sliders and screen laptops that we've tried so far for Windows 8 this is one of my favorites because it's a little bit different you get the adjustable angles there on the screen and they managed to work in a touchpad at the same time and just feels like very sturdy and travel-worthy that said I would get some sort of cases slip it into because when you have this folded up even like a tablet the screen is still exposed I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the toshiba satellite u 925 t