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Design Silvery, brushed aluminum and gentle, rounded corners abound on the Satellite P50T. That combination makes for a handsome design that won't necessarily turn heads, but will look good in just about any setting. A chrome Toshiba logo in the bottom right corner of the lid adds a little flourish to the presentation. Display Toshiba Satellite P50T Review DisplayHere's looking at you kid -- in 4K. Toshiba outfitted the Satellite P50T with a pixel-packed, 15.6-inch, 3840 x 2160 display. That's an even-higher resolution than the MacBook Pro's 2880 x 1880 Retina display or the 3200 x 1800 Dell Precision M3800. Chroma Tune Toshiba Satellite P50T Review Display FrontYou can adjust the screen's color temperature using Toshiba's Chroma Tune software. The five settings (Technicolor, Cool Warm, Rec. 709 and Full) let you pick the ideal color scheme for the content. However, you can't create custom profiles. Display Utility To help you get the most out of your 4K display, Toshiba preloaded the Display Utility control panel. The software offers several helpful features, including Task Switcher, which shows currently open apps on the right of the screen in large, omnipresent boxes. Audio Toshiba brought out the big guns for audio, outfitting the Satellite P50T with a pair of Harman/Kardon speakers, paired with DTS' audio technology. Unfortunately, while the speakers are certainly loud enough to fill a small room, they lack the definition we'd expect from a multimedia laptop. Toshiba Audio Enhancement Toshiba Satellite P50T Review Audio SoftwareToshiba has also added its own audio enhancement software. Source filtering has the ability to enhance voice or background sound quality. Sliding the marker towards the Voice Enhancement option fades out the background audio while preserving the vocals. Using the Background Sound Enhancement has the opposite effect. Keyboard and Touchpad Toshiba Satellite P50T Review KeyboardThe Satellite P50T provides a large, island-style keyboard complete with a full number pad and good spacing. We measured 2mm for vertical travel, well within the typical 1.5-2mm range that makes for a comfortable typing experience. Heat Despite all that video- and photo-editing power, the Satellite P50T manages to keep its cool for the most part. After we streamed a video for 15 minutes, the touchpad and the space between the G and H keys measured 79 and 78 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively. Webcam Toshiba Satellite P50T Review WebcamNo 4K video capture here. However, the Satellite P50T's camera did a superb job with color, accurately capturing our hot pink sash, ivory dress and neon green headphones. Details could have been sharper, however, as we could see graininess throughout our test shots. Ports Toshiba Satellite P50T PortsThe Satellite P50T is loaded with ports, including a pair of USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, jacks for headphones and microphone, and a secure lock slot on the right. A 6-in-1 card reader resides on the right front lip of the laptop. The left side of the notebook holds two more USB 3.0 ports, a tray-loading DVD player, Ethernet and a power jack. Performance The Toshiba Satellite P50T is a workstation masquerading in a mainstream chassis. Equipped with a powerful, 2.4-GHz Intel Core i7-4900HQ processor with 16GB of RAM, this laptop makes productivity tasks a breeze. We enjoyed a seamless streaming of "Attack on Titan" on Netflix while running a full system scan with 10 open tabs in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. The Satellite P50T's 1TB 5,400-rpm hybrid hard drive booted Windows 8.1 in 17 seconds, slightly faster than the 19-second average. The M3800's 512GB SSD started Windows 7 Professional in 32 seconds, while the MacBook's 256GB loaded OS X in a swift 14 seconds. Graphics Toshiba outfitted the Satellite P50T with an AMD Radeon R9 M265X GPU that has 2GB of VRAM for more graphically intense tasks, such as rendering in CAD. There's also an Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU for less stressful jobs such as streaming video.