The following points have moved me to buy:
* 3x USB3.0 // two would have sufficed; who wants to quickly copy data from one disk to the other, making it ideal course served
* FULL HD // is impressive to see FULL HD 13.3 "compared to 27". Where there are now so first smartphones that dominate. Everything is very sharp and you get a lot on the display.
X 10 hours of battery life // upper middle class of ultrabooks, upper class at the ultrabooks under 1k Euro
* Standard ports in HDMI, LAN and VGA (although outdated, but who gives lectures in rooms with older projectors, knows this && appreciate in other situations, see my review of the BenQ XL2720Z). Pleasant, because Adapter nervous.
* 256GB SSD // I have a 128er in the PC, but since I have 1TB HDD for data. Therefore 256GB were here another reason to buy
What else is there about this Ultrabook to say?
The build quality is impeccable. Base is stable and crash-tested magnesium case. Who has not had any contact with magnesium housings, just believe me. that magnesium almost feels like a high-quality plastic. It has a rather low thermal conductivity and feels not so cold as aluminum; it is also lighter and it shows.
The display includes clean and gentle and can stand out without take the entire notebook.
Located the ventilation is right below the screen, the palm rest areas remain totally unaffected by the heat generation of the notebook. This is very pleasant.
Ventilation is surfing either from, or at 47/48 per cent, which corresponds to a relatively unobtrusive noise.
Calls to the notebook, however, bringing the i5 processor in Turbo Boost mode (> 1.6GHz), then the ventilation is clearly noticeable and annoying. When I booted up the Z30 for the first time and the Win8 facility was carried out, the processor was in great demand, the volume disappointed me and I was honestly just about to return there. To be fair, we must say also, the ambient temperature was probably> 25 ° C.
In summary: at normal office work one hears little or nothing, but it's not the ideal notebook to really pester.
Software:
As usual with Toshiba, each more or less amount senseless software is included. That has not changed in the eight years since my last Toshiba notebook. McAfee, Amazonverknüfungen, annoying extra programs etc. were equal uninstalled or disabled via msconfig / Task Manager and removed from the autostart. Some of it really should not be.
Others are actually useful, like the Health Monitor, the information, such as fan speed, CPU / motherboard temperature percent output or a program to free warranty extension. It is also a ecoUtility going with you, for example, turn off the keyboard backlight on or dim the screen brightness. The result is an indication of the current real-time energy consumption in watts and a calculation of the CO2 consumption. A nice gimmick. The utility, in combination with the Windows Power Options that my smartphone keeps losing the USB connection and rebuilds. You can solve this by Energieoptionen-> Plan Settings Change-> Advanced Power Settings Change-> USB Settings> Settings for selective energy savings each disabled.
Keyboard:
Illuminated and provides good tactile feedback, I can not complain really. A pity, however, that the many extra functions in lighting are not visible. Volume is. For example, on 3/4 plus Fn key Do we know that's not, you must first adjust the screen.
There are three illumination modes: Off to 15 seconds timers and always. Between these you can change via Fn + y.
Would I buy this notebook again? Yes I would. It's really well made, easy, with good stats and long battery life. Only the 4GB are a little dated (my rich they and you can have two bars up to 16 retrofit that's probably the price of the 256GB SSD. Adding a 4GB Ramriegel costs less than 40 euros, an mSATA SSD with 256GB Toshiba but costs just 200 euros. In addition, the volume is at high power is not so convincing.
However, one must note the high ambient temperature with me; In addition, all ultrabooks somewhere the same processors and me is ultimately rather, the heat is conducted from the decent housing and they will.
