First off, this is one of the best laptops I've ever owned. Though I've only used it for about a month, I loved it the moment I got it.
Summary: Crisp, vivid screen, but dim and reflective. Full keyboard and number pad. Large touchpad. Two USB 3 ports plus HDMI, extra USB, and SD slot. Works okay as a touchscreen device. Bundled software and features an added bonus.
The 4k screen (that's 8 megspixels!) is amazingly crisp (with about 282 pixels per inch, more than even the MacBook, iPad, and Surface Pro 3) and colors are very vivid and saturated. (The glossy screen makes for pure, deep blacks, and viewing angles are good too.). At 15.6", the screen gives you plenty of space for working and multitasking. By adjusting the Display sizing in Windows 10, you can make things appear extra large and touchscreen-friendly, or scale things down, for more usable screen space. (I chose the latter.) All of these qualities make it great for graphic design work.
Also, the screen is a touchscreen, and it rotates 360° for use as a tablet, though the keyboard is then exposed on bottom. A really big, hefty tablet, but a tablet nonetheless. Like all tablets, it automatically switches between portrait and landscspe modes. It also detects when you tilt the screen back past 180° and turns on Windows 10's tablet mode. You can also place the laptop keyboard side down with the touchscreen facing you as a sort of "desktop tablet", or place the screen and keyboard on end like a tent.
It has a full keyboard (with side number pad, a must-have for me!) It's not the most premium-feeling keyboard—or envy-inducing—but it's not cramped and the keys are backlit (not a concern for me, but most people want that).
The 1TB hard drive has way more than enough storage for most people. Unless you store tons of movies or games, you'll never run out of space. Despite being a hard drive (instead of a solid state drive), the computer boots up fairly quickly (probably less than 20 seconds, though that might get longer as it gets older). And that's also why this computer is inexpensive: hard drives are dirt cheap (as in $100 or less).
The touchpad is very large and works great. Of course, it supports 1, 2, 3, and 4-finger gestures.
The 8GB of RAM are great. I usually have lots of Google Chrome tabs open, along with a Word document or two, the calculator, Spotify, and sometimes much more. So far, I think my record is 75% RAM usage at any given time. The Intel i7 processor is speedy and more than capable for all of my usual tasks.
The weight is only 4.9lbs. By today's standards that's heavy, but my old 17.3" computer (circa 2011) weighed about twice as much. I certainly won't complain.
Port-wise this isn't skimpy (for a modern, slim laptop). There are two USB 3.0 ports on the right, along with an HDMI port, SD card slot, and the power button. On the left is the power cord connection, one USB 2.0 port, and a headphone jack. Also on the left are volume up/down buttons and a Windows key button (kind of a head-scratcher on that last one).
Extra benefits: I enabled a setting so that it turns on when I lift the lid. In other words, you don't need to press the power button. It comes with an audio EQ, so I added a bass boost and cut the 4k frequency for my Apple EarPod earphones. Toshiba offers "sleep and charge" so you can charge connected USB devices even when the PC is off. (I left this turned off.)
Now, that said, here are the cons. The screen is fairly dim (200 nits of brightness, versus about 260 on my old PC, and 550 nits on the iPhone 5S). As I mentioned earlier, the screen is glossy, so don't sit near a sunlit window. On top of that, many Windows applications (example: Spotify) don't handle high-res screens, so they look a bit pixelated, but not too bad. Also, photos and bitmap images appear much smaller size because the screen's pixels are tiny, so expect to zoom in on low-res images. (On the flip side, this is great for photographers and graphic designers, who work in high-res). On top of all that, Intel doesn't have good drivers for the graphics hardware, so, for instance, the start menu gets wonky dark colors and text, and sometimes looks a little blurry. (What a shame for such a gorgeous screen.)
Also, don't buy this if you want all-day battery life. The 8 megapixel screen and the mechanical hard drive are going to suck power. Installing a solid state drive should help some.