The scream of the ad says: “World‘s thinnest 10th generation Intel CPU 13-inch notebook.” If you don’t want to believe the advertising go ahead, but in this case the scream is true: the Portégé X30L -J by Dynabook is really very thin and, for this reason, it is also one of the lightest and most comfortable notebooks around. The screen is 13.3 inches and the weight is 906 grams, only a couple of ounces more than an iPad with a 12.9 screen and without a keyboard. This novelty would be enough to make interesting a PC that derives from one of the historic families of laptops and whose first older brother, the Portegè R700 at the time by Toshiba, arrived on the scene almost ten years ago. Armed with this experience, Dynabook have done an excellent job. The new notebook is very light, with small dimensions (306 x 210 x 17.9 mm), which has remained faithful to the traditional family design with rounded edges and tapered shapes, but which at the same time has been updated to keep up with the times.
Let’s face it right away: it is not a PC born for entertainment, despite having a good screen and more than enough audio. It is a device for work and study, a “business PC”, designed to perform “serious” tasks and with few frills, and for this reason it has a wonderful balance between weight, size, resistance and portability. The frame is strong and light, the screen is slightly flexible but the overall impact is solid, far from plasticky. The screen, Full HD anti-glare with privacy filter and 400 nit brightness, and a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080, is large, very horizontal of course, but this creates a good “desk”, comfortable for work. You can therefore also see YouTube movies and videos well, but the audio is only good (stereo speakers with DTS Studio Sound audio enhancement technology), so it is better, if you want to follow a film or a concert, to equip yourself with headphones or headphones. But for those who carry it around a lot it is useful to know that the device is very resistant, it has the MIL-STD 810G certification, which does not make it “rugged” but which means that it can “hold” with safety.
Excellent equipment of ports, an External Headphone (stereo) / Microphone combo socket, an RJ-45, a micro SD card slot, 2 USB 3.1 TypeC Gen 2 – Thunderbolt 4 port with support for Data Transfer, Power Delivery and Display Port , 2 × USB 3.1 (one supports charging when the PC is off) and one HDMI-out (including 4K support), Ethernet port and of course there is Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6. To keep all the activity on its feet there is an 11th generation Intel Core i7 processor that makes work smooth and smooth, and the promised ten-hour runtime is basically maintained, even with continuous use. There is no shortage of a 720p infrared webcam for facial authentication, an internal chip for TPM 2.0 encryption, support for Window Hello.
Having said all this, what is the Dynabook Portégé X30L-J like? a highly recommended machine for work and study, light, comfortable, resistant and portable. Trackpad and keyboard do their duty very well, for a bit of fun it’s fine but it is above all a PC for work, which due to its extreme portability and the fact that it weighs less than a kilo, is highly recommended for those who need to travel. continue with the device. It’s not ultra-powerful, it’s not super-fast, but it’s rock-solid and comfortable, which makes a difference in many cases where power and speed aren’t constantly required. And the good autonomy does the rest. There are PCs with similar performance at a lower cost, this is true, but the low weight and the great autonomy are, together with the resistance, elements in favor of the Dynabook device, which also comes from the great Toshiba tradition that should not be underestimated. The X30L-J is a versatile and satisfying machine that doesn’t disappoint.
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