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Until recently, choosing a notebook always involved compromise. You bought for performance or battery life, but never both. If you wanted performance (or big screen size), you got poor battery life. If you wanted long battery life, you got feeble proce...
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Toshiba’s Portégé series has been around for quite a while now, but they’ve often slipped under the radar, leaving their more flashy competitors to make a noise about their wares. Nevertheless, in terms of functionality, the Portégé series has been...
The Portégé R830 is priced at Rs.85,589 (MRP) and Rs. 80,990 (MOP). It’s got the specs, but the price is quite exorbitant. The only noticeable cons in the performance were lack of a backlit keyboard and slight overheating when pushed to the max. Besid...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2012-11-19 12:38:44
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There was a time when Toshiba’s line of Portégé business ultraportables was the epitome of sleek utility, particularly in the days of the R500 and R600. Samsung stole some of that show when it released the Series 9 (reviewed here)—the closest a PC has...
Extremely portable; great performance for the size; superb battery life.
Hohum looks; odd proprietary SSD.
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Remember the Toshiba Protege R600 that was introduced in 2008? It was one of the lightest notebooks we’ve ever laid our eyes on; and since then, it has topped our portability charts every single time. For the uninitiated, our portability score is deriv...
Slim, lightweight and sturdily built, Builtin optical drive, Allrounded performance...
Pricey...
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Since Toshiba has recognized that not every demanding private user or business person wants to spend 2000 Euros for a subnotebook, the Portégé R830 is currently available in three price classes and feature variants . The R830-10V is the fastest of the thr...
Good application performance, Good battery life, Light weight, Slim case, (Stable), matte magnesium case, Optical drive, HDMI, eSATA, Docking Port, Precise multi-touchpad, Good but not perfect input devices, Sensible hardware tools...
System noise under load, Short travel of the keys and touchpad buttons, Weak TFT backlight, Low contrast of the display, Narrow viewing angles...
As long as the dim display doesn't disturb, and no workstation tasks are performed with the R830-110, then the 13.3 inch device is a viable alternative for all those on the search for a subnotebook with a long battery life, integrated UMTS modem, docking...
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Call it a supermodel complex: For some, a laptop can never be thin enough. Those folks might, at first glance, look past the Toshiba Portégé R830-S8310, a lightweight ultraportable with just a bit more girth than the world-class runway stars...
Thin, light, durable chassis, Long battery life, Solid application performance, Three-year warranty...
Cramped-feeling keyboard, Loud cooling fan...
The Portégé R830-S8310 is everything highly mobile business users need, at a price nearly all of them can justify in their budgets...
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To say the Toshiba Portege R700 was well-received by the industry would apparently be an understatement; Toshiba brought a level of engineering acumen to bear on that machine heretofore unseen on their notebooks, and the success of the R700 and its d...
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Toshiba's Portégé R series has been popular among those wanting thin and light notebooks for a while, although as we noted when we looked at a predecessor, the Portégé R700 you need to pay out a pretty penny if you want the very best features available.Th...
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