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The Toshiba Portege Z935-P300 is an ultrabook that makes very few concessions in the name of light weight and thin construction. On our benchmark test, it was powerful enough to hold its own against a much more expensive, high-end ultrabook. With an almost eight-hour battery life, ultimate portability, comfortable keyboard and touchpad, and solid construction, the Portege Z935-P300 is our new Editors' Choice award winner for mainstream ultrabooks .
The Portege Z935-P300 is thin, really thin. At 0.63 inches (16mm) at its thickest point, it is thinner than the 18mm spec for 13-inch ultrabooks. It measures about 0.63 by 12.5 by 9 inches (HWD), matching or slightly edging the measurements of the Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2012) ($1199 list, 4.0 Stars) , the spiritual progenitor of the ultrabook category. At 2.36 pounds and 2.93 pounds with the AC adapter like Toshiba PA3032U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3165U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3080U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3516U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3290U-2ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3381U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3097U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3396U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3467U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3380U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3237U-3ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3283U-1ACA Ac Adapter, it's also on the light side. The Z935-P300's magnesium alloy chassis is colored dark silver, with a large chromed Toshiba logo on the lid. The system's chromed mouse buttons are nice, but the buttons and their chromed surroundings attract fingerprints.
The Z935's touchpad is responsive, and includes a physical on/off switch between the touchpad and the keyboard. This is handy for people who sometimes find that their palm moves the cursor around during typing sessions. The touchpad comes set to scroll with a single finger on the right and bottom edges of the touchpad (old-school style), but you can go into the touchpad's control panel to set the touchpad to respond to more modern two- and three-finger swipes. This will no doubt become a plus if or when you upgrade the system to Windows 8 in the future. The physical mouse buttons are convenient for the business user who hasn't yet warmed to using a single-piece touchpad. The backlit chiclet keyboard is easy to type on, and the keys have a good grippy feel.
The system has a 13.3-inch widescreen display with a 1,366 by 768 resolution. While this falls short of the 1,920-by-1,080 resolution required for 1080p HD video, 1,366 by 768 is common for most 13-inch ultrabooks and ultraportable laptops in this price range. For example, the HP Folio 13-1020us ($899.99 list, 4 stars) $949.99 at Amazon Marketplace comes with a 1,366-by-768-resolution screen, but the more expensive high-end ultrabook Editors' Choice Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 ($1,299 list, 4.0) $1,099.00 at Microsoft Store has a 1,920 by 1,080 resolution screen in a 13.3-inch panel. Understandably, the Aus UX32VD is a lot more expensive due to its higher res screen and other features like a Core i7 processor.
The Z935-P300 comes with a very good selection of external I/O ports. It has two USB 2.0 ports on the back, a full-sized Ethernet port, full size HMDI port, VGA, SD car slot, and a USB 3.0 port on the side. It could use another USB 3.0 port (or better yet convert all three USB ports to 3.0), but the whole package is quite usable. The full-size Ethernet, VGA, and HDMI ports are useful for the road warrior, giving them the best chance for connecting to projectors and wired networks in offices and hotels.
The Portege Z935-P300 includes a mid-level Intel Core i5-3317U processor, four GB of system memory, a 128GB SSD, and Intel HD Graphics 4000. These are very good stats, and as we'll see below, help the Z935 gain good performance numbers. Like the memory, the system's SSD and battery are not user-serviceable. The system comes with a desktop screen free of extra icons save one: the system booted up with a Best Buy app, which is a portal to Best Buy's online software store. There's also an icon for Toshiba's Book Place store in the Windows Task bar. This is a far cry from systems in the part, which had up to a dozen icons strewn across the screen. The system comes with a one-year standard warranty. The screen itself is bright and easy to read, particularly on normal power settings. Like a hybrid vehicle, the Z935-P300 has an eco button in the taskbar, which brings up the Toshiba eco utility. Once in eco mode, the screen dims, the sleep schedules are adjusted, and the system draws less power from the battery. We didn't test in eco mode because of the sleep settings, but it has the potential to increase battery life over the tested seven hours, thirty-four minutes.