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Beneath the USB ports is the flash card reader, which supports the usual range of SD-compatible formats but not Memory Stick. It's very awkward to get at, as the chassis slopes inwards slightly, making it tricky to reach into the slope and find the slot. You either have to crane your neck towards the notebook or lift it up to see the slot. Not good.
On the right edge is a pair of audio jacks (microphone and headphone), a second USB 3.0 port, HDMI and VGA ports and the Ethernet (RJ-45) port.
The second-generation Core i3 processor in the Satellite Pro L830 can't be expected to deliver blistering performance, and the system's Windows Experience Index (WEI) of 4.7 (out of 7.9) bears this out. The WEI corresponds to the lowest scoring subsystem, which in this case was for Graphics (desktop performance for Windows Aero).
The Processor (Calculations per second) score was 5.2; Primary hard disk (Disk data transfer rate) and RAM (Memory operations per second) both scored 5.9, while the top score of 6.1 went to Gaming graphics (3D business and gaming graphics performance).
You'll have no trouble doing basic 'knowledge-worker' tasks on the Satellite Pro L830, but we don't advise running computationally- or graphically-demanding workloads.
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The system's stereo speakers deliver average audio quality, with lack of bass tones, as ever, the main issue.
The Toshiba Satellite Pro L830 10J isn't a particularly lightweight or compact 13.3in. notebook. Nor does it run the latest third-generation (Ivy Bridge) Intel Core processor. The screen also had issues delivering smooth text. Still, it's quite solidly made, there's plenty of hard drive storage and the price is reasonable.