Toshiba Portege Z30: There is always room for super portable
Toshiba Portege Z30 offers like laptop working high-end, super light and strong. Strength’s completeness of the supplied interfaces (including LTE module) with all the tools to enforce corporate security.
The PC market is still a market difficult and unforgiving, even in the face of recent positive results (due in large part to a generational change that was made to wait too). From this, sub-fund are already out Sony and Samsung (in Europe), and the rules say that anyone who is not a leader and decides to go out, but also to last out no gain.
Remain in the moment Lenovo, Toshiba, HP, Acer, Asus, Dell, among the most important. We will see.
Description
The Portege subject of our test is a 13.3-inch 16: 9 ratio in matte finish with 1,366 × 768 pixels and LED backlighting, do not touch type. This laptop is well known for finishing and assembly quality with its magnesium alloy chassis slightly brushed steel gray, and its matte black keyboard. Only the base of the keyboard is made of polycarbonate. The background is also in the league.
The keyboard (spill-resistant, for the drainage of liquids) is backlit, comfortable, with a good key travel, slightly superior to that offered by a MacBook, significantly lower than that preferred by us, with the shape of the button more curve accommodate the fingers (for example that of Lenovo X1, which this laptop is comparable). This laptop also can fall from a height up to 76 cm without damage critical.
On the basis of support in the area of the touchpad also houses the control sensor for fingerprints, left and right buttons are arranged in integrated touchpad for traditional use, and at the top for those who prefer to use the trackpad embedded in the keyboard.
To have tested all kinds of personally prefer the trackpad of the Lenovo with the middle mouse button for scrolling which in this case is missing. But we must also note that the touchpad Toshiba provides excellent feedback, state of the art. To commend in this Toshiba Portege Z30 is the attack on the base for the docking station, making it a truly all-purpose machine although naked is a feather weight of only 1.2 kg. The overall dimensions are 31.6 × 22.7 × 1.8 cm at the point where the thickness is greater.
Another distinctive feature that really can make a difference in the choice, it is the ability to have the VGA port and Ethernet (1000Base-T) built without the need to occupy USB ports, and no adapters at all. The right equipment to connect to device ” Legacy ” as the old projector, but also look to the future thanks to triple socket USB 3.0 connection, which is a type of Sleep and Charge, for charging even when the computer is closed.
There is also a socket hdmi standard, the smart card reader, the reader SIM for availability of WWAN connectivity 3G / LTE, the reader SDXC Memory Cards type with support for microSD and SDHC formats provided standard. At the top of the display, set in the large frame is of course provided the Webcam service for which Toshiba did not want to save with the 2-megapixel sensor FHD.
Our opinion
Toshiba Portege Z30 is a top of the line every point of view. Work with the Intel Core i7-4500U (fourth generation), up to 3 GHz in TurboBoost, uses an L3 cache of 4MB well. Standard comes equipped with a slot for DDR3L at 1.6 GHz with 8 GB, but the memory can be expanded with another module up to 16 GB (one slot is manageable to taste). 256 GB of SSD storage complete the package.
Completely balanced. As for the connectivity, we have already mentioned the support 3-4g / LTE chipset by Sierra Wireless SIM traditional, are also supported WiFi BC, and Bluetooth 4.0 LE. The integrated graphic is expected that the Intel 4400. A supplied more than enough for anyone who does everything, and does not pretend somehow that performance for games.
As for the 4-cell battery, with a total capacity of 51 MWh, the manufacturer reports a maximum of 12 hours recorded with Mobile Mark 2012. An evaluation for excess, but it is also fair to explain that you are working with a certain ease for 9/10 hours. The installed operating system is Windows 7 64bit, at least on our machine, because Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit is also available. We think that we have found to be the best choice waiting for Windows 10, which will make you happy consumer audience and finally also business users.
What is the real plus of a choice like this? Toshiba Portege Z30 is a laptop ready for business, fun to use in his spare time. But it’s the first look the most important. The fingerprint reader, a smartcard reader, the matte finish of the display, the graft for a laptop docking station makes it very portable, as it enables the practitioner to productive work, in any context, with the ability to connect any device.
And all this without power limits, especially in configurations enhanced. The budget Toshiba EasyGuard with antivirus, encryption capabilities TPM, Computrace system and diagnostic tools complete the basic needs of not only the companies, but also of public administration.
Toshiba Portege Z30 has racked up a score of 3078 in PCMark 8 our texts Conventional mode in the Work. A score comparable to that of HP G1 EliteBook Folio 1040 with a configuration similar in many ways. Regarding the score Home Conventional this laptop has collected 2298 of the total score, in this case lower than expected. Our overall assessment is positive.
This laptop is complete and of high quality. Ideal for work, among other things, with all the services they need when companies buy laptops for their internal use. The price around $1,600 in our opinion is fairly balanced in relation to the budget. Perhaps it would be more balanced with a 512 GB SSD.
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