Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Blog Assignment #5


Toshiba Kirabook review:


The Kirabook is a thin ultrabook that's made of magnesium alloy which is stronger and better than the Macbooks' aluminum body. There are two models, the $1,599 and the $1,990, and the thing is that the most expensive comes with a touch screen. This laptop has a 13.3 inch display with a high resolution of 2,560x1,440-pixel, Toshiba calls it the PixelPure. It is also commented in this review that the design of the laptop is not something amazing because people want a better design when it comes to pay that amount of money. This laptop is mostly compared to the 13 inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display. There are many differences such as the display of the Kirabook is much better than the Macbook's, but on the other hand, the battery life of the Macbook is better because it can last 7 hours while the Kirabook only can last to 5 hours. The author says that it is hard to decide whether the Kirabook is something that you must have. I think this review is more based on an opinion and hands-on testing because they ran many test to see the features of this laptop in comparison to others, specially the Macbook Pro. The most important criteria of this review is more about the price because is really high and the design, because if you pay a lot of money for a laptop, you expect it to have a better design and not the same as those that have a price of $500 to $700.



Panasonic TC-PVT60 series review:

The VT60, it's an Smart TV from Panasonic which maybe has the best image quality in comparison with Pioneer Kuro and Samsung F8500. This TV has a camera include which has to function, the Skype and face-recognition 
functions. The sound quality it is also amazing, the author of this review he really 
recommends to listen to music with this TV. But on the other hand, he also argues about the price of this tv because it is really high ($2,200) even though its image quality is far better in comparison to the ST60. Most of the criteria that the writer of this review express is the features of the tv that are really amazing and he also says that it is one of the best tv panasonic could have come up for this year. He performed a hand-on testing for the 60 inches serie but he says that all the features is more likely to be the same for all the series of the VT60. The final 
verdict for this product (even though it has some issues) is that it is a great TV and it's succesful in many ways.