Toshiba Adds a Gorgeous 4K Screen to the Satellite P50t Laptop

Toshiba Satellite P50t – A Premium Laptop with a 4K Touchscreen

The Good: The Toshiba Satellite P50t has a full 4K touchscreen display that looks great. High-end components make this a practical premium laptop, even without the special screen.

The Bad: There's little real-world need for this right now, and most photo or video pros are tied to the Mac ecosystem. It's hard to find good 4K content, and the AMD GPU can't play current games at 4K.

The Bottom Line: Toshiba takes a solid premium 15-inch laptop and adds a great-looking 4K touchscreen while keeping the price reasonable. But at this point, it's mostly for bragging rights or early adopters.

While it's by no means a mainstream consumer technology, nor will it be for years (if ever), 4K is certainly a hot buzzword. It's used most commonly to refer to televisions with a 3,840 x 2,160 native resolution. A handful of PC monitors also hit 4K resolution, but it's a feature that's only starting to come to laptops.

For example, Lenovo has announced a Y50 multimedia laptop with an optional 4K display, which we previewed at CES 2014 but have not seen available for purchase yet. Toshiba goes one better, with an actual 4K model already available for sale — and for testing in the CNET Labs. That's the Satellite P50t, a 15.6-inch premium midsize laptop.

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