does this laptop has to offer for all of us. What competition will it
offer for the new kind of laptops like MacBook Pros and HP's
AMD-powered Pavilion dm1. As such it is said that this new laptop is a
good mixture of price, design, features, and performance. So does it
matches all the requirements lets have a look.
The new Portege R830 design is almost identical to its older brother
Portege R700, some of the negative points of the Portege R700 was that
it did not have a good processor that almost all its competitors had a
good support for it. Now that requirement is fulfilled by the new
Portege R830. Plus it has got some more new features in it, which we
will keep discovering as this review progresses. So first lets start
with the design of the laptop.
Design
As I have said above the design of the laptop is very much similar to
the previous model Portege R700 and I must say that they almost look
as twins. The subtle dark blue tint to its brushed-metal magnesium
alloy chassis is a repeated design, the body of the laptop is a bit
sturdy though it appears to be light in weight. If we have a look at
the screen of the laptop then it does appears to be very light and we
could have expected some work on that, shifting our attention to the
keyboards, keyboards are pretty well maintained with vertical row of
dedicated page-up, page-down, home, and end keys all placed on the
right side of laptop. Now what this causes is that it shifts the enter
button and also the right shift key further right side making it very
difficult to locate that. Even the media and the volume control
buttons are a bit difficult to locate. In spite of the flaws then also
the Toshiba Portege R830 does manage to get a good keyboard experience
as well as the touchpad experience. One more thing if I am missing out
is the backlight keyboard, it should have been present I feel so.
Now lets see what are the features of this laptop
Features
It does come with a couple of interesting software utilities that will
keep you interested in. One of them is the ReelTime. It will display
all the recent documents and Web pages in the thumbnail form at the
bottom of the screen, if you want to combine photos and notes in a
single workspace then Bulletin Board does that task. If you are new to
the Toshiba computers then you will definitely take some time to get
used to it but that's ok. It is an interesting feature that you will
not regret learning it.
It has a 13.3-inch LED display that will give you a resolution of
1,366 x 768 pixels that is far much better then it s competitors. So
here Toshiba scores well. Though we checked out the off-axis viewing
angles of the laptop but sad to say that we were not so impressed with
that. We also had a check with the audio quality of the laptop but the
sound was ok.
It comes with one USB 2.0 port, one USB 3.0, USB 2.0/eSATA and also a
slot for the sd card reader. Wifi and the Ethernet support is there in
the laptop, in the optical drive it will come with the DVD Burner.
Performance
Now lets see how well does it perform in different factors, so lets
have a look at its performance.
The Toshiba Portege R830 comes in two options one is with the core i5
processor while the other one comes with the core i3 processor. Whats
the difference between two is that the core i3 model will come with
Bluetooth, WiMax, and Intel's Wireless Display, for beaming video
signals. While all these things will not be present in the one having
core i5 processor. Now if we consider the core i5 processor in the
Toshiba Portege R830, then it does lags behind apple mac book pro
which as the same processor but the difference is little, if we talk
about the multitasking speed and also the image processing it
definitely races ahead of all the laptops and if you consider the
difference, i must say that the difference is highly noticeable. We
have not taken in to consideration the core i3 processor and hence I
will not mention about that.
If you ask me Toshiba Portege R830 does gives you exceptional
performance and races ahead of many laptops like Acer Aspire TimelineX
1830T, Samsung 9 Series 13.3-inch, Asus U31JG-A1. So that's what the
difference it scores a full marks in the performance wise.
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