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The touchpad is surprisingly conventional for a notebook of this genre, with physical left and right buttons. There's a fingerprint reader in the middle as well. Pinch to zoom is supported, but there are no other common multi-touch gestures. The positioning is slightly off centre, so you won't accidentally brush the touchpad with the heel of your hand, and even if you do find this a problem, there's a button just above to turn the touchpad off entirely. Toshiba has also built the status lights into the front of the touchpad section, which we think is a surprisingly good idea.
Despite the Portege's skinny proportions, Toshiba has still managed to shoehorn a commendable selection of full-sized ports into its svelte frame. Asus and Samsung should take note, because the Portege is still only 16mm with battery like Acer SQ-1100 battery , Acer SQ-2100 battery , Acer TravelMate 660 battery , Acer TravelMate 8000 battery , Acer BTP-APJ1 battery , Acer BTP-AQJ1 battery , Acer BTP-ARJ1 battery , Acer TravelMate 2420 battery , Acer BATCL32 battery , Acer Aspire 2000 battery , Acer Aspire 2200 battery , Acer AS07B72 battery thick at its widest point, yet it manages to incorporate full-sized HDMI, VGA, and Gigabit Ethernet ports, with no dongles required. These are all situated around the rear, which might irritate some, but not having to carry any adapters will surely outweigh this. There are a few ports on the sides, with individual headphone and microphone minijacks - not a single combined one - on the left alongside the SDXC memory card slot, and USB 3 on the right. A further two USB 2 ports are located on the rear.
One thing Toshiba hasn't managed to shoehorn into the Portege is an optical drive, although some previous models did manage this engineering feat. You probably won't miss this unless you plan to install a large software suite from disk, and even then the many networking options provide alternative methods. There's a 128GB Toshiba solid state disk for storage, which is pretty standard, as well as decidedly quick and miserly on power, but it might prove limiting if you are a heavy user. Otherwise, there's the aforementioned SDXC-compatible memory card slot.
Naturally, the Portege comes with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, but also 802.11a for corporate locations still using this standard. There's Bluetooth 4, too, and best of all a slot for a 3G SIM, so you can add on a wireless data subscription, with support for UMTS up to HSUPA at 5.76Mbits/sec.