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well this is Joanna for the verge and this is the toshiba portege z8 35 which is one of the new ultrabooks to hit the market it's actually the fourth ultrabook I've reviewed in the last couple months but there are some things that make it very different from the others the first is the lightweight it only weighs two point four seven pounds which is lighter than the macbook air and the new lenovo ideapad u310 so she was been able to fit on a number of full-size ports including an SD card slot a VGA port an HDMI slot and also a full-size Ethernet port however one of my biggest complaints about the system is actually its design it feels a little bit flimsy but it also looks a little bit outdated with the gray coloring under the lid toshiba's actually done a pretty nice job with the keyboard it's backlit unlike any of the other ultrabooks out there though the keys are a little bit narrow the touchpad may not be as fancy as some of the competition but the traditional layout actually makes it pretty easy to navigate which I can't say the same for the ax seuss under the hood toshiba's gone with a slower processor than the competition to get to that 899 price point but the core i3 processor 4 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabyte hard drive provide pretty decent performance the system boots in 37 seconds and resumes from sleep in a fast 6 seconds battery life is actually pretty impressive for the system I got five hours and 51 minutes on the verge battery test and in typical use I got about six and a half hours at 899 the toe she was actually a pretty great value and one of the best ultrabooks on the market but for three hundred dollars more you can always get the macbook air which has a higher resolution display more battery life and a much nicer design you