Toshiba Ultrabook Portege Z830 Review

The Toshiba Ultrabook Portege Z830 promises portability and style with its 13" display, 1.8 GHz i7 processor and more. Matt Mira and Kevin Pereira take a look at the notebook for its official Gadget Pr0n review.

What You Need To KNow

• The Toshiba Ultrabook Portege has an aluminum chassis and measures only 0.63" thick.
• The laptop also weighs only 2.5 lbs.
• The display is 13" wide.
• The machine itself is only 12.4" wide and overall, it's a very sleek design with ample ports.
• Usually Ultrabooks tend to be sparse in the port department with one or 2 USB ports but the Portege has much more.
• There are 3 USB ports and one of them is 3.0.
• There's a gigabit Ethernet port on the back so you aren't always looking for adapters.
• Other ports include an SD card slot and HDMI.
• The HDMI out is great if you want to add a second display.
• The Portege display is LED backlit and comes with a matte finish.
• It's not the brightest thing in the world but the color is good and not too washed out.
• The construction of the display hinge doesn't feel sturdy.
• The viewing angle isn't great but it's certainly serviceable.
• The keyboard is laid out nicely but it is a little unresponsive.
• More often than not, we found ourselves missing key strokes.
• The track pad was a little annoying, too.
• The trackpad button has a glossy metallic finish that can be slippery.
• You can barely feel the difference between the buttons.
• This review model has an i3 processor and 4GB of DDR3 RAM with 128 HB SSD, which adds up to a pretty quick machine.
• Daily tasks like email, web browsing, videos and photos on this machine were actually very quick.
• It does come with Intel's HD graphics 3000 chipset which we have yet to be impressed by.
• The notebook will handle moderate gaming but don't expect to play Mass Effect 3 on this.

Price

• $900 on Amazon

Rating

• 4 Seals of Approval out of 5. (How do we rate gadgets?)
• This is a good looking laptop that's also the lightest Ultrabook we've tested.
• We weren't fans of the keyboard and trackpad.

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