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日本Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the Dynabook Portege X30L-J
Dynabook sounds like a new kid on the block, but it is actually the spiritual successor of the Toshiba brand. After being fully acquired by Sharp in 2018, the name of the company was completely changed to Dynabook, to give it a new fresh name, while keeping the history and experience of Toshiba.
Today we have one of their devices, named the Portege X30L-J. No, it’s not Protege, we double-checked. A spelling mistake or not, this might be the lightest device on the market, weighing a little over 900 grams, despite packing up to a Core i7-1165G7.
Today we present you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Dynabook Portege X30L-J.
Dynabook Portege X30L-J: Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Dynabook Portege X30L-J
1. Design and build quality
The magnesium unibody makes for an incredibly thin and lightweight device, with a weight of 907 grams and a profile of 17.78 mm. The body feels extremely light, almost like you’re holding a feather in hand. The magnesium alloy also gives the laptop some much-needed sturdiness, as it offered decent resistance when we tried to flex it. The lid, on the other hand, bends a lot. Overall, the laptop is fragile, so you would have to be careful with it.
The lid doesn’t open with one hand, despite the hinges feeling well balanced. Opening the lid reveals relatively thin bezels and a set of great peripherals. The keyboard has quite the long key travel, clicky feedback, a Pointer stick, and some shortcut buttons. The touchpad does have its own clicking mechanism, while the dedicated buttons are for the pointer stick.
2. Display quality
The 13.3-inch Full HD IPS panel here offers comfortable viewing angles, a maximum brightness of 468 nits in the middle of the screen, 435 nits as an average for the entire display area, and a maximum deviation of 13%. The contrast ratio is great – 1330:1. The display covers 97% of the sRGB color gamut.
In terms of color accuracy, the panel was already accurate enough even before we applied our Design and Gaming profile, which brought down the dE value to 0.7. Here are the results from the test with both the factory settings (left) and with our profile applied (right).
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Since our profiles are tailored for each display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Dynabook Portege X30L-J configurations with 13.3″ Sharp JQ133M1JW41 (SHP1488) (FHD, 1920 × 1080) IPS panel.
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Naast het ontvangen van efficiënte en gezondheidsvriendelijke profielen, steunt u door het kopen van LaptopMedia's producten ook de ontwikkeling van onze laboratoria, waar wij apparaten testen om de meest objectieve beoordelingen mogelijk te maken.
Office Work
Office Work moet vooral worden gebruikt door gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van stukken tekst, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel is gericht op het leveren van een betere helderheid en duidelijkheid door het behouden van een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren.
Ontwerp en spel
Dit profiel is gericht op ontwerpers die beroepsmatig met kleuren werken, en ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming brengt beeldschermen tot het uiterste en maakt ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standaard voor Web en HDTV, bij witpunt D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en ons lichaam aantast. Omdat het op maat is gemaakt voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel nauwkeurig te houden. Health-Guard simuleert papier zodat de druk op de ogen sterk wordt verminderd.
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3. I/O
The laptop offers incredibly wide I/O, despite being so thin and light. You get a total of two USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) ports, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI connector, a MicroSD card reader, an Ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack.
4. Upgradeability
Despite being such a small device, it offers decent, but not perfect upgradeability. There are either 8GB or 16GB of soldered memory, while there is also a single SODIMM slot. Storage-wise, there is one M.2 PCIe x4 slot.
Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to get access to both the SODIMM and SSD slots.
1 reason NOT to buy the Dynabook Portege X30L-J
1. Speakers
The speakers on the laptop are positioned on the bottom, with two small speaker cutouts.
The speaker setup also didn’t fare well in our test, delivering quiet audio with unimpressive quality, along with deviations across the entire frequency range.
