Toshiba Satellite Radius 12

Toshiba Satellite Radius 12
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One of the things I really like about the Microsoft Surface Book isn’t how useful it is as a tablet, but how useful it is as a laptop. Given that I type and browse the ‘net a lot more than I watch video and play touchscreen games, it’s important to me that a 2-in-1 laptop be good at the laptop part. Enter this particular bad boy: Toshiba’s Satellite Radius 12 is a 12-inch notebook, with a beautiful display and powerful hardware, and also a versatile screen hinge that lets it flip around into tablet mode.
What Is It?
The Toshiba Satellite Radius 12 is a $2399 or $2799 12-inch laptop with a 360-degree rotating hinge that lets it transform from a productivity-focused, business-friendly laptop into a kiosk, or tent, or tablet for watching media content. Built around an Intel Core i7 processor, designed for Windows 10’s Hello face recognition, and pared back to its simplest form, it’s built for portability without making too many sacrifices in battery with like Toshiba PA3107U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3383U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3384U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3285U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3191U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3166U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3331U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3098U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3084U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3399U-1BAS Battery, Toshiba PA3905U-1BRS Battery, Toshiba PABAS213 Batterysize or processing power. (It’s like the Apple MacBook on steroids.) Oh, and it has a super-detailed 4K display bringing the whole thing together.
That screen is what you get for spending the extra $400 on the $2799 premium model, as well as a 512GB solid-state drive. And it’s a doozy (bit more on that later on). The premium Radius 12 is finished in a dark brushed aluminium finish, while the lesser (but still impressively specced) Full HD $2399 variant is a lighter brushed silver. Both models have 4K-capable HDMI A/V output, a headset jack two USB 3.0 ports, a USB 3.1 Type C port, full-size SD, and tactile tablet-style power and volume controls. Harman Kardon speakers make for surprisingly loud — if not super-rich — sound from a skinny laptop.
Specifications
■Display: 12.5in, 3840×2160 pixels
■CPU: Intel Core i7-6500U, 2.5-3.1GHz
■RAM: 8GB DDR3L
■GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520
■HDD: 256GB or 512GB M.2 SSD
■Dimensions: 299.5x209x15.4mm, 1.32kg
It’s a thin laptop with a metal body, like a MacBook or Surface Book; it’s a 2-in-1 convertible like a Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro; it’s an Intel-powered chunky tablet like a Surface Pro. It’s all of these, but with a skew back towards being a laptop that you can actually use for everyday computing tasks — anything Web-based is a breeze, obviously, but the fast SSD, decent allotment of RAM and powerful dual-core, quad-thread Core i7-6500U make for a machine that can actually handle video or photo editing, transcoding or other moderate-duty tasks that you’d prefer to be on a desktop for — no gaming, though.
Toshiba has clearly put a lot of effort into making the Radius 12 competent in just about every area you can ask it to be. It’s tough — metal body, Gorilla Glass Display. It’s powerful — Core i7, fast SSD, 8GB of RAM (although that’s DDR3, which is an interesting choice given the up-to-date Skylake’s processor supporting DDR4). It’s versatile — it can spend 90 per cent of its time as a laptop, but also run double duty as a tablet for handheld work or viewing, or any degree of leany-screeny touch-and-swipey in between. All that means its thin body does need a heat and fan exhaust at the back, but it’s otherwise quite sleek.