If you’re in the market for a truly portable laptop, but don’t want to sacrifice on power, quality or size, then you need to check out the Toshiba Portege R835-P81 13.3-Inch LED Laptop – Magnesium Alloy Casing in Blue. Weighing only a tad over 3 pounds in weigh, then this little baby certainly isn’t going to give you any grief if you need to carry it around 24/7. Indeed, when you see how many gizmos and gadgets are stuffed into this machine, you’ll begin to wonder how on earth Toshiba have managed it.
But that’s what makes a Toshiba purchase so reassuring. You know that when you buy one of their products that you’re buying into their tremendous amount of experience. After all, you can’t have been in the computer and laptop market for the length of time they have without learning a thing or two. And the Toshiba Portege R835-P81 13.3-Inch LED Laptop – Magnesium Alloy Casing in Blue is certainly no exception to the rule. So, if you’re looking for a power house of a computer on which you can do some serious work, then make sure this little number’s on your short list.
Product Features
- 13.3 inch HD widescreen TruBrite Blacklit LED display
- 640 GB SATA hard drive
- 6 GB of DDR3 RAM – expandable to 8 GB
- 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5-2435M dual core processor
- Built in stereo speaker
- Integrated Wi-Fi
- Webcam
- Toshiba Face Recognition
- Spill resistant, raised tile keyboard
- Microsoft Windows & 64 bit Home Premium operating system
- 3.2 pounds in weight
- Up to 9 hours of battery life
- 1 year limited hardware warranty
Pros
- Good value for money
- Outstanding battery life
- Includes a USB 3.0 port for super-fast data transfer
- Good, solid construction – and looks pretty sexy too!
- A genuinely portable laptop that you can carry around on a regular basis
- Powerful, fast and cool running
- Great included amount of RAM
- Fantastic for multi-tasking
Cons
- For some reason, Toshiba have failed to include Bluetooth!
- No separate number keypad
- You can only upgrade the RAM to a maximum of 8GB
Who is this for?
Let’s be serious for a moment, and look at what this little baby truly offers. In the past there really hasn’t been an awful lot of options to purchase a truly powerful, but genuinely portable laptop (unless, that is, you want to fork out thousands to go for a Macbook Air). But now, the Toshiba Portege R835-P81 13.3-Inch LED Laptop – Magnesium Alloy Casing in Blue puts paid to that, because this little number really does kick ass! It’s fast and powerful enough to cope with pretty much every computing need – and then some. It’s got a great amount of storage, comes with include memory that, in essence, laughs in the face of other comparable machines and comes with more usable features than most of us will have ever dreamed of. In a nutshell – this is a serious laptop for serious users.
Why is this worth buying?
It’s nice to be able to report that a manufacturer has actually listened to what its customers want. Thank goodness one of the things they’ve done is to reduce the amount of bloatware that comes with it. Yes – it’s only a one time job to remove it, but when you purchase a new laptop all you want to do is get on and use the thing, not spend hours having to get rid of all the rubbish that comes with it. That’s another reason why it’s so refreshing to see that the Toshiba Portege R835-P81 13.3-Inch LED Laptop – Magnesium Alloy Casing in Blue comes with a great amount of included RAM. Yes, you can upgrade, but that’s not the point. When you buy a laptop you want it ready to use. So this machine certainly gets the thumbs up from us – from usability to price, it certainly ticks all the boxes.
