Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the Dynabook Portege X30L-J

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Vanaf: Severin Kolakov 03 September 2021 / 06:00 0

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

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Dynabook Portege X30L-J

Processor: Intel Core i5-1135G7
Videokaart: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
RAM: 32GB RAM
STORAGE: 1000GB SSD

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Dynabook Portege X30L-J

Processor: Intel Core i5-1135G7
Videokaart: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
RAM: 8GB RAM
STORAGE: 512GB SSD

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Dynabook Portege X30L-J

Processor: Intel Core i5-1145G7
Videokaart: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
RAM: 64GB RAM
STORAGE: 2000GB SSD

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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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Office Work

Office Work is voornamelijk bedoeld voor gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van teksten, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel streeft naar een betere onderscheidbaarheid en helderheid door een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren te behouden.

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Design and Gaming

Dit profiel is bedoeld voor ontwerpers die professioneel met kleuren werken, maar ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming haalt het uiterste uit beeldschermen, waardoor ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk zijn in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 norm voor Web en HDTV, met witpunt D65.

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Health-Guard

Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulsbreedtemodulatie (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en lichaam beïnvloedt. Omdat het op maat gemaakt is voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel accuraat 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.