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i'm dan ackerman and we are here taking a look at the toshiba portege are 835 now this is a laptop we have reviewed at least a couple of times before this slightly updated version is called a p88 edition and it takes a whole different meaning on now that we're looking at it after the first generation of ultrabook laptops that's because we originally saw the portege are a 35 it really became one of our favorite laptops it was a 13-inch laptop kind of like the macbook guy had a metal body it was relatively lightweight really good battery life decent performance and it was well under a thousand dollars which made it a very affordable alternative to those 13 inch apple laptops now since then we've seen all these really thin less than an inch ultrabooks most of them are 13 inch models toshiba even has one they're a little bit less powerful they get rid of things like the optical drive and a lot of the ports and connections so when we got a chance to take a look at our old favorite the r8 35 again I really thought we weren't going to like it as much and it definitely does feel different now it feels like a bigger bulkier laptop compared to some of these super thin ultrabook and ultrabooks style ones that we've seen but you know what at the end of the day I ended up still liking the r8 35 a lot that's because at about three and a half pounds it's still very light and still reasonably fit not a thin as an ultrabook but you do get the full voltage processor you get plenty of porting connections and of course you get that optical drive that's missing from pretty much all the ultrabooks so if you want something that's kind of in that same vein but keeps all those full-featured kind of things like the optical drive and the full voltage processor and really good battery life then this is a fairly reasonable compromise to make in order to get something that's kind of in between let's say a 13-inch MacBook Pro and a 13 inch ultrabook the best thing is these guys use around eight nine hundred dollars i found this particular version 2 p 88 on sale for 699 at a couple of places if you can get it for that then it's a real steal eight or nine hundred then maybe you do want to look at one of the Ultrabook options out there i'm dan ackerman and that is the toshiba portege are 835 dash p 88