Laptop Week Review: The Toshiba Kirabook

Toshiba isn’t exactly known for churning out attractive, high-end notebooks, which is why the company’s new Kirabook is such an oddity. It's a handsome little thing if you're into very (and I mean very) understated designs, though I imagine at least a few people will think the Kirabook looks downright dull. The Kirabook is wedge-shaped like many of its other ultrabook brethren but it's thankfully very light on branding (save for a small, chrome-esque Toshiba logo slapped on a corner of the Kirabook's lid), and finish that comes as a result of the magnesium allow chassis is nice enough. Sadly, that magnesium frame doesn't mean the Kirabook is immune to scratches, something I quickly learned after stowing the thing in a checked bag while flying to Austin.