Toshiba Portege R935-P322

Like the portability of an ultrabook with a lower price ? Ever wish you still had an optical drive in your laptop ? Ultraportable laptop will put all - day battery life and productive capacity in the thin and light design long before the ultrabook craze was sparked . The Toshiba Portégé R935 - P322 is the latest to lead the ultraportable category , with 9 + hours of battery life , a mobile processor rather than an ultra - low voltage CPU , and a price that is much lower than in most Ultrabooks .

Design
The Toshiba Portégé R935 - P322 measures 0.72 by 12.44 by 8.94 inches ( HWD ) , and weighs 3.1 pounds - thinner and lighter than the Sony VAIO S13 , but thicker than the slim chassis Lenovo IdeaPad U310 . It may not have anorexic profile ultrabook , but it is still fairly portable .

The Portégé R935 - P322 is a spill - resistant chiclet keyboard , which may be missing the scalloped keys and premium feel of the keyboard selection of Lenovo U310 , but is still very comfortable . The only thing really missing is a backlight , for use in darker environs . The touchpad is fairly responsive , but the separate right and left buttons are covered in chrome - finish , fireplace and coat each time a button is pressed .

Offering 13 - inch 720p HD display , thanks 1366 - by- 768 resolution , but it is par for the course these days . The built - in speakers are on par with most other laptops , although the sound is tinny at higher volumes .

The Portégé R935 - P322 has two USB 3.0 ports ( one also has Sleep and Charge ) , including USB / eSATA for external drive , an SD card reader , and a tray - load DVD + - R DL optical drive . VGA and HDMI output make connecting to an external monitor or HDTV easy , but you can also ditch the cable completely with Intel WiDi and an aftermarket adapter , like the Netgear Push2TV ( $ 99 list ) . WLAN ( 802.11n ) and Bluetooth 4.0 round out the wireless options .

The Portégé R935 - P322 offers 640GB of storage space , but the hard drive does not have the cache that gives Ultrabooks mSATA their lightning fast boot times and responsiveness . Toshiba clusters with preinstalled software , however . In addition to Windows 7 Home Premium , you'll find lots of extras , from the Microsoft Office 2010 Starter and Google Chrome 30 - the same day trial of Norton Internet Security and Toshiba Online Backup , a service starting at $ 4.95 per month for 25GB of cloud storage . Toshiba also included some other branded services , such as Toshiba BookPlace and App Business for buying ebooks and apps , respectively . Covered by Toshiba 's Portégé R935 - P322 with a standard one- year warranty on parts and labor .