Toshiba’s legacy as a PC firm, Dynabook, has carved out a distinct segment for itself as a vendor of ultralight enterprise notebooks. Dynabook’s legacy continues with a handful of recent Portege premium laptops, all hovering round two kilos.
At MWC 2022, Dynabook introduced 4 new Home windows 11 notebooks: the Portege X30L-Okay and the Portege X40L-Okay, plus the Portege X30W 2-in-1 convertible. All of them function the brand new Twelfth-gen Intel 28W “Alder Lake-P” processors that Intel just lately launched, along with some Intel applied sciences that accompanied the launch, resembling AI noise discount. The 720p laptop computer webcams (with privateness shutters) may also embody face framing, lighting correction, and background blurring that’s ruled by the laptop computer itself, and good charging capabilities that forestall the battery from being overcharged.
Not one of the laptops embody WWAN 5G/LTE choices; Dynabook executives stated they saved price by not certifying the laptops with U.S. carriers, as prospects weren’t asking for it. Then again, all three laptops ship with a three-year guarantee.
Dynabook Portege X30L-Okay
Dynabook’s Portege X30L-Okay presents a 13.3-inch 1080p show weighing a particularly gentle 1.99 kilos, that means that you just’ll have a simple time toting it round. Pricing begins at $1,379.99.

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Dynabook’s Portege X30L-Okay consists of the selection of Intel processors, each in normal (the Core i5-1240P and Core i7-1260P) and vPro (the Core i5-1250P, Core i7-1270P and Core i7-1280P) together with choices ranging as much as 32GB of LPDDR5 dual-channel reminiscence and SSDs as much as 1TB. The machine is a secured-core PC, that means that the machine’s firmware is secured. It’s bodily safe, too, with a safety lock slot and a MIL-STD-810H score enabled by its magnesium alloy chassis, in addition to the aforementioned webcam shutter.

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Port choice features a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports, a second pair of USB 3.2 Gen 1 Sort A ports for legacy units, an RJ45 Ethernet port, an unspecified HDMI port, and a microSD card slot.
Dynabook Portege X40L-Okay
When you want a barely bigger machine, Dynabook presents the X40L-Okay, a 14.0-inch clamshell that gives barely extra decision than the X30L-Okay at 1920×1200. It weighs 2.31 kilos. It additionally carries the Evo label, the model Intel designed for premium laptops. Pricing begins at $1,799.99.

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There are the identical Twelfth-gen Core processor choices inside, together with the vPro chips, and the identical reminiscence and storage choices, too. All of it seems virtually similar to the smaller laptop computer, with a few exceptions. First, the X40L-Okay incorporates 4 audio system (two going through down, and two up) whereas the smaller X30L-Okay boasts solely two. The battery, as you would possibly anticipate, can be bigger. As an alternative of the 53Wh battery on the smaller machine, the X40L-Okay features a bigger 65Wh battery.

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Dynabook Portege X30W 2-in-1 convertible
When you want a enterprise pocket book that helps inking, you’ll wish to purchase the Dynabook Portege X30W, a 13.3-inch 2-in-1 convertible. It’s solely very barely heavier than a few of the different units Dyanbook presents, at 2.18 kilos. It additionally carries the Intel Evo badge, indicative of a laptops that was co-engineered by engineers at each Intel and Dynabook. Pricing for the X30W (additionally known as the X30W-Okay) begins at $1,599.99.

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The Portege X30W 2-in-1 makes use of Intel’s 12-gen Core Alder Lake-P processors, all encased inside a magnesium alloy chassis that enables for MIL-STD-810H drop safety. The units all embody a TPM 2.0, a fingerprint reader, and in addition supply secured-core PC protections. It additionally ships with Dynabook’s TruPen for digital inking.
Dynabook Thunderbolt 4 Dock
There’s additionally an surprising addition: The Dynabook Thunderbolt 4 dock, which incorporates a pleasant assortment of legacy show ports in case your desk hasn’t upgraded to a pure Thunderbolt show. There’s a pair of DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0 ports, an upstream and a downstream Thunderbolt 4 port, 4 USB 3.2 Sort A ports, plus two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort C ports as properly. Even higher, the brand new dock outputs a considerable 90W as properly, which ought to energy the Dynabook notebooks after which some.

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As PCWorld’s senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft information and chip expertise, amongst different beats. He has previously written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.