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Toshiba Portege Z935-P300 Ultrabook: Lightweight, for light users

03.10.2012
Travel-weary businesspeople will appreciate Toshiba's latest Portégé model, the Portégé Z935 Ultrabook. Not only is this laptop business-ready, with features such as a VGA-out port (for hooking up to a projector) and WiDi (see next paragraph), it's one of the lightest 13-inch notebooks we've ever seen. It weighs just under 2.5 pounds, so it's a breeze to tote around to meetings and on business trips.

Our review model, which costs $900 at Best Buy, features a third-generation Intel Core i5-3317U processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 128GB solid-state drive. It also sports built-in 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and Intel's WiDi technology, which allows you to connect wirelessly to compatible external displays. The Portégé Z935 runs a 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium.

The Z935 performs well for its category, scoring 158 (out of 100) on our WorldBench 7 benchmark tests. This means that the Portégé Z935 is 58 percent faster than our baseline model, which has a second-generation Intel Core i5 desktop processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive.

The Portégé Z935 is particularly speedy in startup time, taking just 14.5 seconds, which is quick, even for an Ultrabook. By comparison, our top-rated ultraportable at the moment, the Vizio CT14-A2, starts up in 16.5 seconds.

The Portégé Z935 also does well in a couple of our other individual performance tests, including the storage performance test and the content creation test.