The keyboard does have two minor downsides. Each letter key is relatively oversized, and they provide sufficiently springy feedback with excellent travel. The mechanics of the chiclet-style keyboard provides a pleasant typing experience as well. The backlight is a pleasant soft-white, which provides plenty of illumination without feeling like my retinas are burning when working in the dark. Old ThinkPad'ers will appreciate the tactility of the pointing stick and buttons the rest of us will continue to trackpad and pretend the 90's never happened.īacklit keyboards are compulsory for business laptops and the chock-full-of-features Portégé Z30 doesn't forget this one. The end result is a net benefit for users. All these inputs somehow stay out of each other's way. This gumbo approach is not visually appealing, but neither is it uncomfortable. It seems Toshiba went with the age-old chef's strategy: throw everything into the pot and nobody will complain. There's also an enterprise-standard fingerprint scanner, and an array of indicator lights, each for plug/battery status, power on/off, and hard drive usage. In the final tally, the Z30 gives you two ways to mouse around and three ways to click if you include tapping on the trackpad itself. Both pointing devices come with delineated left and right mouse buttons.
In addition to a backlit keyboard and touchpad, there's a pointing stick (or AccuPoint, as Toshiba calls it). The base of the Portégé Z30 is as busy as its business users. After all business users need a device that will survive the rigors of travel in planes, trains, and automobiles. It's a design element that shouldn't be overlooked. The Z30 achieves this durability without adding weight-and-profile killing plastic fairing. Toshiba prioritizes build quality in their devices (though this is often to the detriment of other aspects, like aesthetics and power). The Z30 is also spill and drop resistant, as expected. The one bendable component, the screen, is a purposeful design choice to help prevent cracking. Slight-framed Ultrabooks sometimes suffer from flimsiness, but not the Portégé Z30. Of its ultrabook competitors, only the 2.47 pound Dell Latitude 13 will make your business trips easier. It's a svelte 2.65 pounds – lighter than both the Lenovo Yoga 900 (2.84 pounds) and the Asus ZenBook UX303 (3.2 pounds).
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