Toshiba Portege T130 series have three color options for you: the teana black Toshiba Portege T131, crystal snow white Toshiba Portege T132 and the wild rose red Toshiba Portege T133. The main difference of these three notebooks is the color; other things of them such as configuration or size are exactly same.
Although Toshiba Portege T133 is the first Toshiba Portege T series notebook, but the design of the Toshiba Portege T133 is similar to the Toshiba Portege series notebooks. They are streamlining and rounded fuselage design. It transfers the elegant design.
Toshiba Portege T133 is 22.2mm-34.2mm thin; and the LED screen makes Toshiba Portege T133 looks thinner. Toshiba Portege T133 comes with a 13.3 inch LED screen with the resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels, which is more suitable for playing high-definition video.
Portege T133 weighs 1.685Kg, and adding the power adapter, the weight of Portege T133 is just 2.07kg; it is easier for you to carry it out.
Toshiba Portege T133’s silver “TOSHIBA” Brand Logo in the central makes it look more exquisite and elegant.
Rose red is the favorite color of many female users; it is a best choice for most lady users.
Toshiba Portege T133 system status indicator is placed below the palmrest, so it is easy to be seen even users put their hands on the palmrest. In addition, the status indicators will shin out orange or yellow light according to the different state, they are efficient but not dazzling.
Toshiba Portege T133 power start button, this circular power button is widely used on these series notebooks.
Toshiba Portege T133’s bottom side design will increase the friction to prevent fall.
left side of Toshiba Portege T133
On the left side of Toshiba Portege T133, there is Kensington lock slot, VGA, heat vent, HDMI high-definition jack, and USB2.0 ports. The gap between the ports is wide, so they will not be interfered.
right side of Toshiba Portege T133
On the right side of Toshiba Portege T133, there is power adapter jack, Ethernet card jack, 2 × USB2.0 ports, headphone / microphone jack, and multi-card reader (SD / SDHC / xD / MMC / Memory Stick / Memory Stick Pro). They are arranged in a compact order. We didn’t find the built-in DVD burner, so if needed; you may have to connect it with USB external drive.
On the bottom side of Portege T133, there is hard disk and memory expansion slot, which is for the further upgrade.
We see that there are two stereo speakers placed in the left and right side of Portege T133.
Nowadays, the 13-inch screen notebook coming with DVD burner, Express card jack or eSATA is very common, but Portege T133 gives up these important things in order to pursuing the light weight.
Portege T133 comes with a wonderful keyboard design, the “Shift” key is wider and easier to use; moreover, the “Ctrl” key is on the left side of “Fn” key, which will fit the users’ habits. On the upper right side of the direction keys, there is a “Page up” key. It is a pity that the direction keys are a little smaller, which can not be used smoothly.
The gap of each key on the Toshiba Portege T133 is 19mm; it meets the requirements of the full-size keyboard. 15 × 15mm keycap will reduce the typing mistakes.
it is worth mentioning that touch pad buttons on Toshiba Portege T133 is used the design of QosMio series, which make it more beautiful.
Toshiba Portege T133 comes with an 80 × 38mm touch panel, which is added the multi-touch function; you can zoom, narrow or spin the pictures with the multi-touch functions.
Toshiba Portege T133 comes with a 13.3 inch LED screen with the resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels, which is more suitable for playing high-definition video. The following pictures will show you a visible effect.
We can see that the front side viewing effect is good, while the horizontal and vertical viewing angles are not so good; the color is too dim or too bright.
There are two small utility software in the Portege T133, they are “ReelTime” and “Toshiba bulletin board”. Now we have a look on them.
ReelTime is a graphical history / index tool to help users to view multimedia files which is recently visited such as documents, photos or video; it can show the thumbnails directly, and it has the most translucent interface effect.
ReelTime interface on Toshiba Portege T133
ReelTime can be viewed by the default time period.
Now I will introduce the second software on Toshiba Portege T133 – “Toshiba bulletin board”. Bulletin board is a convenient area for you to drag our favorite pictures, documents or notes on it. It is a funny and creative ways for you to organize.
The layout of the main interface
Users can choose the background color, icon arrangement freely, and users can also write freely on it.
Toshiba pre-loaded with some popular software on Toshiba Portege T133 such as PC diagnostic tool, eco utility; users also can add their own applications easily.
Toshiba Portege T133 comes with a SU4100 processor, which is a highlight of this laptop.
We test the SU4100 processor with the wPrime 32M, the result shows that the performance of the SU4100 processor of Portege T133 is much better than the ULV single-core processor, the speed is closer to the same dual-core Atom 330 and the Celeron dual-core SU2300.
Than we test the Portege T133 with PCMark05. The 3209 high score is also better than the s Atom 330 and low-voltage version of the Celeron dual-core processor, the processor of Portege T133 is very good.
In the Cinebench R10 test, the Pentium dual-core SU4100 overall performance is eye-catching, score is ahead both the single-core Pentium Core 2 SU3500 and SU2700, and also exceeds the Celeron dual-core SU2300. Overall, the test results with SU4100 processor are meeting the market position.