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On the iPad, you can have your existing slide in a large window, with thumbnails of upcoming slides running along the foot of the screen and your presenter notes running down the edge. You can’t even see your notes in the Windows version, and you have to pinch to zoom to get the thumbnails, which is awkward.The Windows app does include the same virtual laser pen and inking options as the iPad, but the controls are difficult to access and we often found ourselves accidentally advancing to the next slide when trying to activate them. We hope Microsoft gives Presenter Mode a good dollop of elbow grease before the apps are finalized; we wouldn’t want to stand on stage delivering a presentation with these inadequate tools.OneNote has been available as a Windows 8 touch app for some time, but there’s a new preview version in the works. We can’t say we’re impressed. First, it adopts a different layout to the main OneNote Windows application, with individual pages listed down the left, rather than the right, of the screen, and with previews of the page contents included. This means only four or five page titles can be displayed on screen at a single time, resulting in a lot of vertical scrolling.

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It also had a nasty bug in our tests, where notebooks that had been previously renamed were still displayed using their old names. These new names show in every other version of OneNote we’ve tested, suggesting it’s a gremlin that Microsoft needs to sort – and sharpish, if it wants to avoid any ugly synchronisation errors.How will the apps look on phones and compact tablets?Windows 10 isn’t only for PCs, laptops and tablets. The same codebase will also be used on Windows 10 phones and compact tablets, as will these universal Office apps. However, their appearance is very different on these small-screen devices.The Ribbon menu used in the tablet apps simply doesn’t work on small screens that are predominantly used in portrait mode. Instead, Microsoft has built the Ribbon menu into the app bar at the bottom of the screen. This overlays the menu options (Bold, Underline, Bullets, Numbering and so on) over the top of the document; you select the feature you want to use, hide the Ribbon menu, then apply it to the document laying beneath. Users can scroll through the different Ribbon tabs on a dropdown menu.

Crucially, Microsoft also re-formats documents so that they fit on the mobile screen. This means images may be positioned, or wrap around text, in a different way than they would on a PC or laptop screen. You almost certainly won’t want to be doing any heavy editing on phones or compact tablets, therefore, as the layout of your document could be altered in unexpected ways.Overall, we’re largely underwhelmed by the Office apps on Windows. At best, they’re as good as the equivalents for iOS and Android. In some cases, such as with PowerPoint and OneNote, there’s a lot of work to be done. While we’re mindful that these are works in progress, we can’t help thinking that Windows users are being offered almost nothing that hasn’t already been released on rival platforms –and many months ago in the case of iOS. If even Microsoft can’t provide compelling reasons to choose Windows over iOS or Android, what hope have third-party developers got?

That said, the Office apps for Windows could prove valuable for Windows tablet users in one crucial regard: they take up a fraction of the storage space of the full desktop applications. The Word preview takes up on 25.8MB of disk space on our test tablet, for example, while Office 2013 requires 3GB of disk space on our laptop. For those running tablets with only 16GB or 32GB of storage, that alone could make the world of difference.We’ve grown to love Google’s Chrome OS over the years, but the ever-multiplying ranks of low-cost Chromebooks generally share one major shortcoming – they’re usually endowed with a distinctly iffy screen, with only the HP Chromebook 11 and Chromebook Pixel packing in a good-quality display. The 13.3in Toshiba Chromebook 2 gives us reason to be cheerful, however: there’s now a delicious new Full HD model.

Just like the original version, the Toshiba Chromebook 2 has more than a little whiff of the MacBook Air about it – albeit it with a little less finesse. It’s finished in silver plastic, shot through with a subtle faux-metal sparkle, and it has emerged a touch slimmer and more svelte in 2015. Toshiba has primped and preened the overall design to make it look even more like a sub-£300 Ultrabook and, what’s more, the weight has dropped from 1.5kg to 1.35kg, which puts it even more squarely in ultraportable territory. It’s quite the looker by Chromebook standards then, but Toshiba has clearly designed the Chromebook 2 to be more than just pretty. For instance, the textured off-white underside is a nice touch, as it stops the Chromebook 2 from slipping around on your lap, and since the lid is also covered with a grippy finish, you can carry it around in one hand without fear of dropping it. And where the previous model suffered from a little flex and creak in its plastic shell, and a spongy keyboard panel, the new model feels far more solid and tautly constructed. In fact, our only slight qualm is the super-flexible display – we’d recommend protecting it with a laptop sleeve or padded bag on your travels.

Sit in front of the Chromebook 2 and, but for the give-away presence of Chrome OS, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were sitting in front of a far pricier machine. The Scrabble-tile keyboard did feel a little too light at first, but unlike the previous model there’s no flex or wobble in the keyboard surround, and the short-travel keys have a pleasingly crisp, positive action which grew on us the longer we spent with it. Factor in the big, wide buttonless touchpad beneath, and the Toshiba doesn’t put a foot wrong.The Toshiba’s broad 13.3in display is the real surprise, though. There is a cheaper model with a 1,366 x 768 display, but our pricier model had the new Full HD display. And since it uses a good-quality glossy IPS panel, the Chromebook 2 can now lay claim to having the best display of any Chrome OS device aside from the Chromebook Pixel.Our display tests saw the Toshiba serve up a solid set of numbers. Brightness peaks at a stunning 384cd/m2, bright enough to remain legible outside (if you fancy doing a bit of work in the garden), and contrast hits an impressive 1,056:1. The panel also covers a respectable 88.2% of the sRGB colour gamut with relatively high accuracy. Photographs that appear washed out on lesser Chromebooks look bold and vivacious on the Toshiba.

In fact, there’s only one downside to the Toshiba’s display: the panel tends to crush the very darkest greys into black. On the plus side, this gives onscreen images a solid, superbly bold look, but it’s a characteristic that means some detail in darker images and dimly lit movies cannot be seen. Given the display quality on most Chromebooks, though, it’s definitely something we could live with.Toshiba has downgraded the Chromebook 2 in one area, though: the CPU. Glance quickly at the specification sheet and you might miss it, focussing instead on the fact that the RAM has doubled from 2GB to 4GB, but where the previous model employed an Intel Celeron 2955U CPU, the new model uses an Intel Celeron N2840. That might not sound like a big change, but it is: the N2840 employs a dual-core Bay Trail Atom architecture while the Celeron 2955U uses a cut-down dual-core Haswell architecture. In performance terms, the 2955U chip is more similar to a low-end Core i3 than an Atom.

The performance delta doesn’t have a huge impact in everyday use. The Chromebook 2 starts up in a flash, rattling through web pages with little difficulty, and it’s far faster than Chromebooks equipped with humble ARM-based CPUs. However, it does occasionally become noticeable in browser-based games, where the Atom’s lowly HD Graphics GPU struggles to deal with the demands of the Full HD display.Put to the test in our suite of benchmarks, the Chromebook 2 lags behind its predecessor. Its SunSpider result of 611ms is 35% slower; the Peacekeeper result of 1,570 is 44% slower and the combination of a slower GPU and a higher resolution display saw the average frame rate in AlteredQualia’s WebGL Cubes test drop from 28fps to 8fps.

Battery life remains very similar to the previous generation. It isn’t enough to trouble the best of the Chromebook bunch, but with the screen brightness calibrated to 120cd/m2, our HD test video looped constantly for 6hrs 55mins.Toshiba has included everything you’d expect from a premium Chromebook. Bluetooth 4 and 802.11ac are present and correct, for starters, and the array of physical connections includes a full-sized HDMI output, 3.5mm headset jack and an SD card reader. There’s also one USB 2 port, and one high-speed USB 3 port which, as it supports Toshiba’s Sleep-and-Charge technology, means you can top up your USB devices even when the Chromebook 2 is switched off.http://www.dearbattery.co.uk

There’s a 0.9MP webcam, which does a reasonable job. It provides video quality that’s good enough for video chats, but struggles with bright conditions. We had to angle it away from office lighting and bright windows to stop it from darkening images and obscuring our face completely.The Skullcandy-branded speakers are dreadful, sadly. There’s not even the slightest whisper of bass or midrange, with the lower registers disappearing almost completely, and vocals were left sounding raspy and lightweight. Make sure to plug some headphones in, whenever you can.Toshiba has done a fine job with the Chromebook 2. We’ve long been hankering after a Chromebook with a top-quality screen, and the Toshiba’s Full HD display certainly delivers on that front. We could ask for a little more travel in the keyboard, longer battery life and perhaps a better set of speakers, but we’re just being spoilt – right now, this is the Chromebook we’d buy.

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