Review of Toshiba Portege Z10t-A1111 Ultrabook/Tablet - 11.6' - Intel Core i7

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I;ve had this laptop for 2 months. Here is a quick review:

Pros:

Fast machine indeed

Compact

Ability to detach the screen is a nice option

Cons:

Laptop/Tablet does not open wide enough. Not good for tall users. Must either bend head forward or detach the screen to type comfortably.

Screen needs better sensitivity

Heavy

Lastly, Windows 8 is just a pain in the neck

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Fast and Compact

Only Problem is that it frequently disconnect itself from the keyboard

a bit heavy for its size.

Overall its still the best choice over its rivals.

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The Toshiba Portege Z10t (I'm using the Z10t-A111) is, in my opinion, currently the best business tablet out there for the traveling businessman or salesman. This device has the performance and capability to be used like a desktop and yet still has the portability of laptop or tablet.

Here are some pros of this device and how I can use it three different ways:

As a Desktop While I'm in my office I use the Toshiba Portégé Z10t series Dock (PA5105U-1PRPA), which includes 2 USB ports, gigabit Ethernet, power, and full size HDMI ports. With this setup I can simply drop the Z10t tablet into the dock and use my 25" monitor and full size keyboard and mouse, as I would with a desktop computer. This tablet and setup has the power to run all the applications that I need, including AutoCAD, and with the gigabit Ethernet connection I'm able to quickly open up drawings and files from our network shares.

As a Laptop The Portege Z10t includes a keyboard dock, which has 1 USB port, HDMI, VGA, and gigabit Ethernet ports. This keyboard dock is a nice option to have when I'm away from my office... whether it's making typing an email easier and the ability to use a mouse, like you would with a laptop... or connecting to a projector in a conference room and not having to use dongle adapters.

As a Tablet The Portege Z10t tablet itself has 3.5mm headphone jack, one USB3.0 port, microHDMI, power port, and a full size SD slot. As it tablet it works great at work for walking around doing inventory with Microsoft Excel, and with the USB port I can use a hand held scanner for quickly scanning in bar codes. Or relaxing at home playing a game or browsing the web. Also the full size SD is nice for getting pics off my camera. But the best part is, this is one device for everything that has all my documents and everything on it, which are always with me now... whereas before it'd be on my other tablet and then realize I didn't have a document that was on my laptop which was at work or home. Also, the Z10t easily fits in the saddle bags on my motorcycle, whereas my laptop did not... big plus for me!

The cons of this device are:

Battery life The battery life on this device is only around 5 hours at the max and under heavy use you're looking at 4 hours, maybe less. Would've been nice to see a slightly larger battery (around 45w) and the new Intel Haswell processor.... This combination would probably get around 7 hours or more, which I'd be happy with.

Fan noise Fan can get a little loud sometimes, but I usually only notice this when I'm in my office and its quiet.

Memory size Can only get this device with 4GBs of system memory. I would like to see a model with 8GBs of system memory.

Physical Keyboard The physical keyboard takes some getting used to because the key strokes are shallow... this isn't a big deal for me since I don't do much typing and if I do I can use the desktop dock and full size keyboard. Also, the screen only tilts back a little past 90 degrees while on the keyboard dock... I feel like I want to push it back further after I've opened it.

For me over all, this has been a great device with good quality and these cons have definitely been outweighed by the pros of this device... and I absolutely love how I've got down to one device now with this tablet. There will definitely be more devices coming out that will hopefully get ride of most of these cons and become the perfect business tablet... but for now this is the best one out there... In my opinion.

FYI, I've also tried the Samsung Smart PC Pro but I did not like that device because it did not have an external monitor port on the Smart PC series Desktop Dock. Also the docking port on the Smart PC had problems... if I bumped or moved this device it would frequently loose connection with the dock. The Portege Z10t has non of these issues.