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Toshiba Portege R700
Toshiba has the R700 does not allow us to chuck a brick wall (our standard stress test benchmark), so unfortunately we can not confirm whether this makes much of a difference. Well, the promise of the R700 will stay cool, thanks to the Airflow Cooling Technology that fan noise to an absolute minimum to keep by channeling the heat more efficiently than the disgusting, sweaty laptops that we are accustomed.
Design and sustainability
While the Portege R600 wore a silver aluminum casing felt a bit weak, the R700 flash trades for a solid-feeling black magnesium cover. The chrome hinges are plastic, like the dark gray pad buds. The overall look is somewhat tempered, but handsome. People looking for more flair to choose the Best Buy exclusive model, a dark blue lid. Weighing 3.2 pounds, The Portégé R700 is one of the lightest laptops you'll find both a large 13-inch screen and a built-in optical drive. The more expensive 13-inch Sony VAIO Z weighs 3 pounds even, but the R700 is still easy to take anywhere, measuring a compact 12.4 x 9 x 0.6 to 1 cm. The R700 sustainability extends beyond its magnesium finishing. Toshiba uses a honeycomb rib structure for the base and palm rest for added resilience. You also get a hard drive protection and spill-resistant keyboard.
Keyboard
The keyboard on flat, widely distributed island-style buttons. While perfectly usable, the keys are clearly more rectangular than most, as they were shortened to save space. Typing is a little bit clacky the side, but not so much as a deal breaker are. We appreciate the great special page up, page-down, Home and End keys on the right-they're usually relegated to alternate function keys on most laptops. Our biggest complaint is that the keyboard is not lit. We have seen that feature on other Toshiba notebooks in this price range, and it is always an appreciated extra.
Display and Audio
The R700's LED-backlit 13.3-inch screen (1366 x 768 pixels) is reasonably bright and looks less washed over the 12-inch panel on the R600 series. When we watched an episode of Glee 720p on Fox.com, colors really popped and we could easily wrinkles in the forehead Mr. Schuster. We just noticed a bit of visual noise and viewing angles were narrow. Phoenix when we streamed on Pandora, the two speakers above the keyboard were loud enough to a minor room to fill. However, we would not pass 75 percent by volume, The Killers' "When You Were Young" sounded harsh when we really cranked up.
Port
The inclusion of a combo eSATA / USB port, HDMI and an SD card slot, the Portégé R700 a big advantage over the MacBook in terms of ports and connections. Although In some countries, the system has an Intel Wireless Display Transmitter, it's a shame that the R700 does not come with the necessary adapter to Netgear wireless video bundle on TV. The first round of wireless screen laptops earlier in 2010 already included on the adapter.
Performance
The R700 is in a different league than its predecessor when it comes to performance. That's because this ultraportable packs a 2.4-GHz Core i5 processor, compared to a relatively wimpy 1.4-GHz Core 2 Duo CPU on the R600 we reviewed in April 2009. The R700 scored as many as 6,657 in PCMark Vantage, almost three times the R600. That show is more than double the average ultraportable notebook, and it beats the HP EliteBook 2540p (6002) Fujitsu LifeBook S760 (5890), and Lenovo ThinkPad X201s (6106). The only ultraportables we've tested recently that surpass the R700, the ThinkPad X201 (7050), which has a slightly faster CPU 2.53 GHz Core i5, and the bright, but much more expensive Sony VAIO Z (9936), a dual SSDs and Nvidia graphics sport.