Toshiba Kirabook with 22 Hours of Battery Life and Haswell Announced

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Toshiba has renewed its KIRAbook, its top competitor Ultrabook range for MacBook Pro Retina. The new generation has the particularity to offer a whopping 22 hours of battery life!

In last April, Toshiba was one of the first manufacturers to offer a laptop with very high resolution. Based on Intel's Ivy Bridge platform, it offered a range of ultrabooks with 8 hours battery life.

The manufacturer now adopt the new Haswell platform, which provides a reminder of the sensitive energy savings, and therefore an increase of autonomy. In the event, this new KIRAbook is almost tripled since it comes with a 22 hours battery life with a non-touch HD screen model (reference V654) and also weighs only 1.12 kg.

The worthy heir of the first KIRAbook, the V854 model with a 13.3-inch touch screen WQHD (2560 x 1440 pixels) offers a range of 14h.

Both models are available from today in Japan at 144,000 and 153,000 yen respectively, equivalent to 1060 and 1130 euros.

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In terms of features, the KIRA V654 is equipped with the following:

• A 13-inch display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels
• Windows 8.1
• Intel Core i5-4200U
• 8 GB of RAM
• 128GB SSD
• Wifi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• Bluetooth 4.0
• A weight of 1.12 kg

The Dynabook Kira of 13 inches will also be available in a second version, but it will come with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. Called V834, the second variation of Kirabook shows this time to 14 hours of battery life only.