Toshiba Tecra M4

Extremely powerful, hard drive damage prevention

Decent battery, good graphics

Still expensive

If you’re not convinced with the idea of Tablet PC, then the Tecra M4 may well be the machine for you - as it’s the tablet for people who hate tablets. Think of it more as a notebook with a flexible screen and you can’t go too far wrong.

Extremely powerful, hard drive damage prevention

Extremely powerful, hard drive damage prevention

Power in your palm. The Tecra M4 is a powerful, feature-packed tablet PC that will please almost everyone.

This is a great notebook if you want a machine that can do practically anything. It can run all or nearly all of today's most demanding games, and it can do what other notebooks can't, act as a tablet. For someone looking for tablet functionality and...

Great performance; large, 14.1-inch screen; discrete graphics; built-in DVD burner.

Extremely heavy for a tablet; glare-prone screen has limited viewing angles; gets very hot; no fingerprint scanner.

The Toshiba Tecra M4 is a full-featured laptop that can occasionally be used as a tablet.

Did I mention that I HATE dead/stuck pixels - especially bright red ones in the center of the bleeping screen? Perhaps it was a bad coincidence that we got two units in a row plagued with the same problem.

Despite the nice magnesium chassis, the accelerometer and shock protection and absorption, the M4 should not be considered a rugged or even semi-rugged computer. It is not sealed against solids and liquids either, as most rugged computers are. It can...