Toshiba Portege Z835 latest Notebook reviews, specs

The Z835 has a professional-looking design with normal straight lines and squared-off edges; Toshiba’s Portege line of notebooks has typically beenbusiness oriented so this makes sense. The Z835 will most certainly draw wandering eyes despite its utilitarian appearance due to the sheer thinness it really is that thin at only 0.63 inches high. The chassis is constructed entirely of magnesium alloy, a lightweight yet strong material.

As a result the Z835 feels like almost nothing at 2.4 pounds.If the chassis allowed flex, the internal circuit boards could bend and increase the likeliness of failure due to stress cracks over time. The fit and finish is good; all areas of the notebook seem to have received about the same attentionto detail.The corners of the chassis are a bit sharp as is the cut-out for the Ethernet port on the back of the notebook.

The entire bottom of the chassisneeds to be removed to get at any of the internals. An additional impediment to upgradeability is the non-standard SSD; you can’t simply put a normal SSDor hard drive in this notebook as the chassis is not thick enough to accommodate them.The thinness of Ultrabooks prevents them from packing much beyond the bare essentials. Fortunately the Z835 makes what space is available count; it has full-size HDMI and VGA-out ports as well as a single USB 3.0 port. The Z835 lacks ExpressCard and DisplayPort. All picture descriptions are left to right.The Z835 has a Synaptics touchpad appropriately-sized for the 13.3-inch display. It has an excellent matte surface that is easy to track on. The two
 touchpad buttons below it offer good feedback and quiet clicks, which is certainly appreciated. The dedicated touchpad on/off button is also appreciated

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