Toshiba Portege Z830-S8302 Pro Reviews

The Toshiba Portege Z830-S8302 is a slim, speedy ultrabook that may be a little too light and too pricey for mass appeal.

Our impressions of the Portege line-up of products have always been very good. Notebooks like the R500, R600, R700 and R830 have proven themselves to have good battery life, are lightweight and very portable. For business machines to actually be useful out of the office, not much else really matters besides these traits. Like the Portege models before it, the Z830 has a very long lasting battery from our tests, managing almost five hours before giving up. We arrived at this figure from playing a HD video in a continuous loop, which pretty much stresses the screen, audio and the processing subsystem continuously. However, chances are you won’t be playing videos at length when taking the notebook out in a meeting or preparing the next presentation out of office. As such, you probably won't be taxing the machine as much and the machine would last up to a couple of hours longer. What if you need it to double up as your entertainment companion on a long flight? Well, at least it has nearly five hours of stamina to keep you company through a couple of long films.