Toshiba Portege Z830 Billed as Lightest 13-inch Laptop

02.09.2011
The flow of announcements of light and thin Ultrabooks is starting to strengthen after yesterday's Lenovo's and today's .

So, what does the series of Toshiba Portege Z830s announced Thursday offer that these other Ultrabooks don't? Toshiba claims the Z830 is the lightest 13.3-inch laptop in this class at less than 2.5 pounds.

Toshiba's states that the company has shaved about 20% of the weight and 40% of the thickness in the laptops from the Portege R830 Series-- which was already --for the Z830.

While the Portege Z830 has a slim 0.63-inch profile, it lacks the unibody design of the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s and is less of an Apple MacBook-Air clone than other Ultrabooks.

However, you may find a Portege Z830 more attractive just for its sub-$1,000 starting price, that magical price point Intel sold us on for this new class of ultraportable laptops. Toshiba may have managed that low price by sticking a relatively small 128GB SSD in its Ultrabook.