Toshiba Portege R705-P41

Toshiba Portege R705 Review

Review: Toshiba’s value-packed Portege R705 offers business-class accommodations for the price of coach.Before there were netbooks, Adamos, Timelines or even a MacBook Air, there was the Portege. Toshiba’s long-standing marquee for ultraportable notebooks never achieved the prominence of many of its more fashionable contemporaries, but the business-styled portable has always pressed the bounds of technology. Back in 2007, the Portege R500 actually took the title of the “world’s thinnest notebook with an optical drive.” The R705 continues the thin-and-light, business-centric traditions of its fore-bearers, but with a new emphasis on value; an exotic prepped for the mainstream market. To that end, the R705 is neither as thin or as light as the old R500, but Toshiba’s “no-compromises” 13.3-inch portable still manages to make very few for the price, producing an excellent value for budget-conscious consumers.Despite its netbook-worthy 3.2-pound carry weight, Toshiba's Portege R705 packs a pedigree that's less Chihuahua and more St. Bernard.