The 13.3-inch display shows a constant resolution of 1920×1080 pixels (166 ppi). The resulting improved sharpness and additional work space are features one does not want to miss after a short time. Admittedly, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon impresses with 2560×1440 pixels (221 ppi). However, this high resolution has rather limited practical use – also because button icons of many programs cannot be scaled easily anymore.

The second innovation, the capacitive touchscreen, should be considered more skeptically. On the one hand, one can ask whether a touchscreen is really necessary for a business laptop. That is an individual decision everyone has to make. On the other hand, the touchscreen function asks for compromises concerning the display: The screen which Toshiba calls “anti-glare” is rather a combination of normal glare and anti-glare display. Besides, sliding properties of the slightly shining coating are not really convincing. These negative aspects are, however, not entirely due to Toshiba, but rather a general problem of such displays.

Thumbs up for the powerful and consistent background illumination, which achieves a steady 289 cd/m² at the highest setting. When running on battery only, this value is kept almost constant. We could not discover any annoying halation.