Toshiba is not a company ordinarily known for pushing the bounds of laptop design and design . But change is underway — first , with asurprisingly good full HD Chromebook , then acheap - and - quite - cheerful Windows convertible , and now a fantastically bonkers 12.5 - inch exchangeable laptop computer with a 4 K Ultra HD display .
The Satellite Radius 12 is being foretell at the IFA craft show in Germany today , and while Toshiba is maintain some significant detail under wrap , we do jazz about one thing : that screen . It ’s a 12.5 ” touchscreen IPS display , with a solvent of 3840 x 2160 , and enfranchisement from Technicolor for moving-picture show - studio truth .
That ’s an absurdly high - resolution panel to meet into such a tiny body . The Radius 12 fits a more pixel - dense display into a smaller dead body than Dell ’s XPS 13 , a laptop whose screen we climb lyric about . And it blows the new 12 - column inch Macbook , with its 2304×1440 screen , clean out of the water . In a worldly concern where jam as many pixels as potential into a small distance is often fundamental , Toshiba might ’ve just won .
Of of course , resolution is not actually everything : Windows has awell - document problemhandling high-pitched - resolution showing , and after a point , adding more picture element does n’t really do anything to make the picture better — they become too pocket-sized to see with the naked middle .
There ’s also the guts power the computer to consider . Toshiba has say that the Radius 12 will be packing “ 6th Gen Intel Core processor ” , which could mean anything from a passably runty Core M , to a quad - core i7 with knock-down onboard artwork . If it ’s the former ( quite possible in a machine weigh under three pounds ) , then that high - resolution concealment will just slack everything down , and you ’ll end up look out a very moderately but very slow slideshow .
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aside from the screen , we do n’t have it off too much : it ’s a translatable laptop that can fold all the way back into a tablet , or anything in between , with an aluminium body , Gorilla Glass filmdom , USB - C support ( though not for charge ) , and integration for Windows 10’sfacial recognition login . For more details , we ’ll have to sit tight — launch is scheduled for the fourth fourth of 2015 .
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