Haswell saves another Ultrabook: the 2014 Toshiba Kirabook reviewed

Intel's Haswell CPUs have been good to Ultrabook makers. Use them, and you get an essentially "free" battery life boost without sacrificing any performance. Most of the PC OEMs—Acer, Dell, Apple, and Lenovo among them—have simply dropped Haswell processors into lightly-modified versions of their Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks and called it a day.

Now Toshiba is joining the party with a new, Haswell-toting version of its high-resolution Kirabook. We liked last year's version, but it was much more expensive than other comparable Ultrabooks despite being late to the Ivy Bridge party. We've got the new version in our hands, and we can say that the Kirabook's second go-round comes much closer to succeeding than the first.