The Glorious Resolution: Feast your eyes on 5 HiDPI laptops

EYE-POPPING goodness

Toshiba P50T-B-10T

We were tempted to include Toshiba’s Kira laptop here, as that impressively manages to combine a Retina-esque 2560x1440 display with the lightweight portability of the MacBook Air. But when it comes to sheer High-DPI the P50T-B outguns all its competition with a 4K display that packs 3840x2160 pixels into its 15.6” screen.

Not surprisingly, the screen is a dazzler – bright and colourful as you’d expect, but it’s the sheer detail and clarity of the image that really stands out. Photographers will love it, especially now that Adobe has announced High-DPI support for Photoshop.

Screen real estate on the Tosh (click to enlarge)

It’s got the horsepower to handle high-def editing work too, with a quad-core Haswell i7 processor running at 2.5GHz (3.5GHz with Turboboost), 16GB of memory, 1TB hybrid drive, and both integrated HD 4600 and Radeon R9 M265X graphics processors.

Even more impressive is the fact that all this comes to a total price of just £1,299.00, which makes the P50T-B a bit of a bargain when compared to most of its High-DPI rivals. It even includes a Blu-ray drive so that you can watch your favourite films remastered in 4K.

The only fly in that particular ointment is the limited battery life. Toshiba only quotes three hours and 15 minutes, and running PCMark 8 continuously drained the battery in just two hours and 45 minutes, which suggests that the P50T-B is primarily suitable for use as a desktop replacement laptop rather than a truly mobile workhorse.

Price £1,299
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