Reviewers Liked
- Extremely portable
- Great performance for the size
- Superb battery life
- Built-in optical drive
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Hohum looks
- Odd proprietary SSD
- Pricey
Toshiba Portege R830
83
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Expert reviews and ratings
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The Toshiba Portege R830 is small and portable, with a good quality keyboard and a nice, matte screen. Toshiba could have done more with the design, but there are models to keep those who do, and don’t need optical drives, happy. ...
By itreviews.com on
80
Graphics aside, the raw performance of the Toshiba Portégé R830-1DZ is head and shoulders above the opposition in this group test. The blend of high-quality components and variety of connectivity options in this small shell combine to make the...
By PC Advisor on
60
We had to pick up our jaws up from off the floor too. It's going to take a damn sight more than a sophisticated-sounding French moniker to distract you from this laptop's gargantuan price. But the Toshiba Portege R830 must be an astonishing...
By TechRadar on
90
There was a time when Toshiba’s line of Portégé business ultraportables was the epitome of sleek utility, particularly in the days of the R500 and R600. Samsung stole some of that show when it released the Series 9 (reviewed...
By Maximum PC on
85
Remember the Toshiba Protege R600 that was introduced in 2008? It was one of the lightest notebooks we’ve ever laid our eyes on; and since then, it has topped our portability charts every single time. For the uninitiated, our portability score is...
By HardwareZone.com on
90
Until recently, choosing a notebook always involved compromise. You bought for performance or battery life, but never both. If you wanted performance (or big screen size), you got poor battery life. If you wanted long battery life, you got feeble...
By APC Magazine on
90
A very business-like 13-inch ultraportable at a business price, the Portege R830 is truly portable but makes the minimum of compromises. The design statement it makes is that you need to get some work...
By Pocket-lint on
82
Toshiba has updated the Portégé R700 with new components but retained the old chassis design. We'd prefer a more solid lid section, but the R830 is an impressively portable notebook. Battery life is good too, but the cost remains high....
By ZDNet UK on
60
Our version of the Toshiba Portege R830, the R830-138, offers great performance and some smashing features, such as integrated mobile broadband. There's no denying that it's very expensive for a 13-inch laptop,...
By CNET UK on
80
Key Features13.3 inch, 1366 x 768, matt-finish screenSuperb build quality, matt brushed metal finishMagnesium chassis keeps weight below 1.5kgDual-core Core i5-2410M, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDDDVD rewriter, USB 3.0, eSATA, Bluetooth 3.0Design, Build and...
By Smarthouse on
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