Toshiba 4K Laptop Becomes World's First

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Looking forward to a review... some questions that come to mind below.

I wonder, is the 16GB from 2 × 8GB or 4 × 4GB. In other words, is it upgradeable to 4 × 8GB = 32GB in the future. (I think that is the maximum that Intel's quad-core laptop CPUs support.)

I wonder, does the R9 M265X feature
- GCN 1.0 ("Southern Islands", e.g, "Oland": "Mars")
or
- GCN 1.1 ("Sea Islands", new, w/"System unified addressing" for compute data sharing).

So in the neighborhood of 100MB/s sequential read? I wonder if the machine has a flash cache.

So in the neighborhood of 250MB/s sequential read in a removable card?

I wonder if it has an mSATA slot (for upgrading to an SSD in the neighborhood of 500MB/s sequential read)
or an M.2 native PCIe slot (for upgrading to an SSD in the neighborhood of 1.2GB/s sequential read)

Similarly, I wonder, does the R7 M260 feature
- GCN 1.0 ("Southern Islands", e.g, "Oland": "Mars")
or
- GCN 1.1 ("Sea Islands", new, w/"System unified addressing" for compute data sharing).

From which generation? Is it
- Richland (A10-6xxx),
or could this be the first
- Kaveri (A10-7xxx) laptop, the first HSA in a laptop?
Is the APU to be available at launch or at a later date? (I don't think an availability date for laptop Kaveri has been announced.)

Will Linux be available? (I think drivers supporting HSA features are Linux-only for now, though I suppose that could change with a future MSWindows update.)

(HSA enables the on-chip integrated GPU to access CPU memory for reduced copying, so GPU compute becomes more useful for shorter data, or short parts at a computed location within large random access data, or volatile data. I'm not sure how GCN1.1 "System unified addressing" on a discrete GPU interacts with this.)

 

Here is some info regarding p50t, the one thats on Toshiba direct now:

-p55t is retailer version of p50t
-16GB RAM is max already.
-There is only one mSata slot.

 

I doubt this will have a mSATA slot, pretty sure the only thing that has changed on the P50t model is the panel and the GPU, if it is still using the HM86 chipset which does not have a mSATA slot.