Toshiba Portege Z835-P370 13.3-Inch Ultrabook

Product Description

Save time and enjoy longer battery life- Toshiba Portege Z835-P370 Ultrabook is the world's lightest 13" laptop offering a breakthrough razor-thin design and ultra-responsive performance that's ready in a flash. Guided by the pursuit of uncompromising quality we engineered this PC lighter than all competing models at less than 2.5 pounds, under an inch thin, yet it's just as powerful as a conventional laptop. Toshiba Portege Z835-P370 is packed with essentials to keep you unplugged, engaged and productive most anywhere: Smart performance that keeps up with you; a solid state drive and USB 3.0 port so you can transfer data and get to your files faster; high-speed start technologies to launch your day in seconds; and an extended battery life rating of eight-plus hours. Sleek and smart, with a spill-resistant LED-backlit keyboard and ingenious magnesium alloy casing for greater strength and resiliency, this laptop balances freedom and flexibility like no other laptop around. Get ready to fly through your day.

Features

• Intel® Core i5-2467M processor
• 6 GB SO-DIMM
• 128 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
• 13.3-Inch Screen
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 8.17hours Battery Life

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Customer Reviews

So far, so good., February 10, 2012 - By Gregory Miziumski "Gregor" (Portland, OR)

So far, I'm very happy with this little machine, although I've only had it for a day.

I did a lot of research, and this one kept coming up as "Editor's Choice". One thing to keep in mind when you are reading reviews at Laptopmag, etc, is that they tested the model with an i3, not the i5 being sold here. This one is plenty fast! The other point that the Z835 got dinged for was lack of Bluetooth support. Again, bluetooth IS included in this model!

Watch out for difficulties uninstalling the Norton stuff. (Install Microsoft's FREE "Security Essentials" instead!)

My only real disappointment so far is with the trackpad, but (again) that comes up in reviews. It's not as smooth as I could have hoped, and (by modern standards) it's a bit smll. On the other hand, be sure to look into the trackpad settings, and play with some of the fun options that Synaptic offers. In particular, I'm loving the "ChiralMotion Scrolling"!

I'm giving a solid 4 stars for now, but only because I haven't played with it enough to give a perfect score.

Extremely pleased, February 4, 2012 - By LT555

I'm giving this a Fiver. What a great little machine. At 2.5 pounds it's like the Jenny Craig of laptops. I did my due diligence research before I purchased and the Toshiba Ultras were rated highly on many different sites. Also I happen to work in the same lab as the Emerging Technologies group for my company and they had ordered 5 evaluation units from 5 different mfgs so I was able to compare them all straight up before purchasing. The Toshiba was definitely the winner and the Samsung Series 9 was very good also. The ACER, ASUS and HP were definitely trailing with the HP coming in last (sorry HP guys). The processor and ram specs were all very similar so I based a lot of my opinion on asthectics, keyboard layout, design and weight. I'm not going to go into so called "cons" like the size of the hard drive or lack of CD-ROM since the buyer knows these things up front anyway and if that won't work for you then look at another machine. A con to me is more like claimed performance not living up to expectations or a hardware component that is flakey. As far as the "heavy lifting" goes, you can do all the heavy lifting you want with the I5 processor as long as it's within the contraints of the capacity of the hard drive. I love the instant on feature and it truly does work as advertised. Along with Amazons usual kick butt fast shipping I'm very pleased with this purchase.

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Great machine

By Barb and Craig Atkinson (Waldorf, MD USA)

This review is from: Toshiba Portege Z835-P370 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (Silver)

This is a great machine. I am a windows guy and I was looking for something lighter and more portable than my 2yr old 17.3" HP. This laptop fits the bill. It is very light but sturdy. Touchpad works great and I love the backlit keyboard. Typing if easy and responsive and I have large hands. Most of the connectors are in the back which is good...I hate it when the power cord is on the wrong side. Battery life has been good. I can generally go most of the day without having to charge it.

The wireless connectivity is good but I have not been able to get the Bluetooth to connected to my phones or other devices yet. I wish it came with some type of 3G/4G capability, but I knew that going in.

This machine is very fast. A reboot from within Win7 takes less than 30 seconds to shutdown and completely reboot. The 6Gb of RAM means everything run fast in memory. I wish the SSD hard drive was bigger because Toshiba takes nearly 20Gb for their recovery partition right off the top so my biggest concern is how quickly Win7 bloat fills it up.

Overall, I love this laptop and it is changing the way I do business.

A Very Good Competitor in the Ultrabook Lineup

By Thien Tran

This review is from: Toshiba Portege Z835-P370 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (Silver)

The Toshiba Portege Z835-P370 is Toshiba's latest entry in a very competitive ultrabook market. Toshiba's aim here was to produce the lightest ultraportable laptop while maintaining some functionality and they've done a very nice job. The laptop weighs in at a hair over 2.5 pounds (which is about 3 slim magazines). This is a welcomed replacement to my eight pound 10 year old Apple Powerbook.

Structurally, the laptop is sound. You can pick up the laptop by one corner and the chassis will not flex nor bend. This is surprising considering how thin the laptop is. Conversely, the screen is very flexible and bends easily. I've read reports that the screen wobbles when you are typing with the laptop on your lap but I haven't experienced that at all. While the hinges are stiff enough, you wouldn't want to open the laptop screen with the corner of the screen. You would hold the screen from the center to open it.

The SSD is zippy and loading takes only 4-5 seconds from cold start and almost instantaneous from sleep mode. The i5 processor is very capable of handling the demands of most business users and casual gamers. The laptop never hiccuped when running Microsoft Office products with multiple documents or spread sheets open. While the laptop is not intended for gaming, I was able to play Star Craft 2 on the lowest settings without any lag at all. However, turning up the graphics settings slowed the game down quite a bit.

The only complaints I have so far:

- spacing of the keyboard keys. The keys are spaced out in such a way that I tend to miss keys sometimes. It may be a good idea to go to a retail store and play with the keyboard for a bit to see if you like it.

- built in webcam picture quality is slightly grainy - not what I expected out of a laptop this expensive

- fan noise - in a quiet room, there is an audible hum coming from underneath the laptop, do anything processor/graphics intensive and the fan kicks into overdrive and can be annoying

Despite some shortcomings, my initial impressions have been very good thus far. This was my first laptop purchase online and I was a little hesitant that I wouldn't be happy but I have been nothing but pleased so far in the week that I've owned it. I'll be back in a few weeks to update my review after I've had a chance top play with it some more, but so far, I'd have to give it two thumbs up.