Toshiba Portégé X30 (i7-7600U, 256 GB) Laptop Review

[Redaktion]

Featherweight champion? Toshiba's Portégé X30 packs tons of features in one of the lightest bodies currently available. Can the X30 compete with other thin-and-light heavyweights, or will it get knocked out?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Toshiba-Portege-X30-i7-7600U-256-GB-Laptop-Review.230130.0.html

[dthrp]

Great laptop. Highly recommendable for people in need of a high quality ultraportable with two user-upgradable RAM slots up to 32 GB.
Wish more companies would do this instead of gluing everything down.

[lcdd]

The picture of the LCD bleeding in the review does not correspond to the image caption "no backlight bleeding". Is it a mistake or the image looks excabberated?

[Niklas]

Hi
Thank you for a great review. I bought one. I cannot say I am happy with it though  :-[. The fan is always on even with minimal usage. The noise is horrible. There is a very high pitch wine. It also has bad coil wine (noise coming from the motherboard). The only way to get it quiet is to set it to Power Save mode which takes down the CPU to 0,7 Ghz which makes the computer unusable since it is so slow. I recorded a video of the noise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Kqw4xSNdc

[Initial G]

Please note the system performance will be improved when a second ddr4 dimm is installed, since it will work in dual channel mode then. This helps the GPU and CPU performance.

Personally I am awaiting for a quality review of the 14 inch brother of this machine, the tecra x40-D. In my country (Netherlands) the x30 is not available with a touchscreen, the x40 is.

[Sam Medley]

@lcdd
Review author here. The photo greatly exaggerates the bleed - unfortunately my camera exposure has trouble in low light at times. The review unit we had had absolutely zero bleed, and the display bezel was tight with no gaps.

[Brendon]

Just a note - this laptop does have 3 brightness settings for the backlit keyboard under Toshiba -> System Settings in the start menu.

[Soooo]

Is there any clue where is SSD located? Under battery? On additional board? On the other side of the PCB? Where? Is it upgradable?

[Zenki]

Backside of the memory slot(Slot A)

[Jefftkd]

How can I replace SSD?
must I remove main board to access SSD?
I wanto to know how to replace SSD of this model.
Thanks for your help.