Revision Dynabook Portégé Z40L-N: replaceable batteries, high price

Let’s start with the design. Passed with a dark blue blue frame and a black keyboard, the color palette seems to have been pulled since the 90s and I also discovered that it has attracted fingerprints and smudge. You don’t have to worry about obtaining those prints on the screen, at least, because the 14 -inch display (with a resolution dated 1,920 x 1,200 pixels) is not a touchscreen.

The keyboard offers a decent action but it seems smaller than it is, probably because of its small arrow keys and even smaller page buttons on/down page, which could very well be the smallest keys they have ever seen on a laptop keyboard. The touchpad has small dimensions, in part because it has two discreet physical buttons under it. Buttons! I was semi -noted with a wildly retro design until I felt as much as many and fragile were felt, which made me sad.

Primary specifications are the media range, with an Intel Core Ultra 7 258v, 32 GB of RAM and a 1 -tarabyte solid state unit. The selection of the doors, however, is very good for a corporate machine, showing off two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 support (one necessary for charging), two USB-A ports, a natural-size HDMI port, Ethernet and a microSD-Sfaldate cards uniformly on the left and right device sides.

Photography: Chris Null

Unfortunately, all this has not been added much on the performance front, with the Portégé that transformed some of the worst reference scores that I saw from an Intel -based machine in the Core Ultra era. Through company apps, tasks focused on graphics and artificial intelligence work, Portégé could barely lift the head from the pillow, dragging 10-15 percent behind the average score throughout the line. A slowdown is not enough to make a visible difference in simple tasks such as web navigation and light productivity app, but anyone who pushes their machines with more complex activities such as photo editing and creating images to the probably noticed.