By Desire Athow
2016 has been a tumultuous year for Toshiba. It will be remembered as the year when the Japanese company made the decision to abandon the consumer laptop market and focus exclusively on the B2B market. For business users however, that’s not a great loss as the Satellite Pro, Portege and Tecra ranges are expected to stay around.
The Portege Z30-C-125 is the third iteration of the Z30 series (see our hands-on review of its predecessor here) and differs from the top-of-the-range C138 by offering half the on-board storage, half the system memory and no 4G/LTE support.
The design, however, hasn’t changed much over the years – like other brands, such as Dell’s Latitude range, Toshiba engineers only tinkered with the chassis. There’s not much difference between the Z830 and the Z30-C and yet more than four years separate both models.
The footprints of both are actually the same (316 x 227mm) and they only differ when it comes to the thickness (15.9mm on average for the newer model) and the fact that the Z30-C is a tad heavier (1.2kg). Still, this is a superbly thin laptop although not to the extent of the Dell XPS 13 (which is the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac