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The interior is simple, with a brushed metal finish and chromed accents. The keyboard and trackpad both need some work. The keyboard features black island-style soft-touch keys, which have a smooth, velvety finish. The keys themselves are a little too small—short, especially—so it’s difficult to type quickly and accurately, and they aren't textured or indented, so your fingers will constantly be slipping every which way.
The trackpad is adequate, if a little small. It’s the mouse buttons that are hard to use. The trackpad features two discrete mouse buttons that sit flush with the wrist rest and do not depress very much, so they’re stiff and tough to press. The trackpad itself supports multitouch gestures and has smooth, accurate movement.
Most of the ports are on the back of the machine. The left side features a headphone with battery like Dell FK890 Battery , Dell FT080 Battery , Dell G2053A01 Battery , Dell G5226 Battery , Dell G5266 Battery , Dell G5345 Battery , Dell GD761 Battery , Dell GG386 Battery , Dell GK479 Battery , Dell GR986 Battery , Dell GR995 Battery , Dell GW240 Battery jack, microphone jack, and SD card reader, and the right side has one USB 3.0 port and a Kensington lock slot. The remaining ports—a gigabit ethernet port, HDMI and VGA-out ports, and two USB 2.0 ports (one with Sleep-and-Charge)—are all on the back, where the laptop is thickest.
The Portégé Z935 sports a glossy 13.3-inch screen with a native resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels. This resolution is fine—it’s the average resolution we see on Ultrabooks this size—but the display, in general, needs some work. The screen suffers from terrible off-axis viewing angles. In fact, there’s only about a 5-degree vertical range in which the screen looks pretty good; otherwise, the display contrast looks too high or too washed-out.
Color fidelity is also a little off (whites look a little bluish), and colors appear washed out in bright scenes. The screen also shimmers slightly, though this is usually evident only when watching darker scenes.
Video playback is mediocre, which is what we expect from ultraportables with no discrete graphics card. The biggest issue is choppiness and artifacting, which appears in every scene—even ones that have very little movement.
Audio playback is not much better. The Portégé Z935’s speakers are on the bottom of the machine, near the front. They get comfortably loud, but audio is tinny and thin-sounding at all volume levels.
The Toshiba Portégé Z935 Ultrabook gets a solid 2.5-star rating. For some business users, such as those who go to a lot of meetings and make basic presentations, it will be a pretty good laptop. After all, it’s lightweight, is a solid overall performer, and has several nice hookup options, including VGA and HDMI, as well as WiDi and Bluetooth.
For other business users—those who travel often and want to get work done on the fly—the Portégé Z935 is a poor choice. The keyboard and trackpad definitely need some work, and the overall construction doesn’t seem very sturdy. Plus, multimedia performance is pretty weak, even for the ultraportable category.