That oft-quoted phrase "you have never had it so good" could certainly be used to describe today's notebook market, with even some sub-£400 laptops having the same feature set as last year's £1,000 machines. And the ...

Sony's Vaio SZ4 XWN/C sits in the middle of a three-product family and is, as we've come to expect from Sony, a stylish, well featured, portable laptop with built-in security, all aimed at the business user. ...

What the mobile corporate user needs most from a laptop is the ability to connect to the office wherever he or she happens to be. Fujitsu Siemens' flagship E8210 not only features wireless connectivity, but also ...

Toshiba's Satellite Pro P100-216 certainly stands out from the grey, silver and black crowd of laptops, as the lid is a striking bronze colour, covering a good, all-round, desktop-replacement multimedia notebook for the home user. While ...

The M1710 (N04XPS7) is the bigger brother of the M1210 and, just like its smaller sibling, it's very different in appearance to the rest of the Dell laptop range. It's powerful, too; in fact it's one ...

There's a standing joke that if dull, reliable old HP had come up with the concept of Sushi it would have named the cuisine 'cold dead fish', so it's no great surprise that the photos of ...

Samsung could have stuck to the tried and trusted Centrino formula when it developed the R20 but instead it chose to use a rare old mixture of components in this sleek laptop. There's a dual core ...

There's no getting away from the colossal size of the Acer Aspire 9303, and it's all thanks to the 17-inch screen. This model measures 400 x 294 x 42mm and weighs in at a hefty 3.6kg, ...

Rising like a Phoenix, the re-emerging Gateway continues to produce well featured notebooks at attractive price points, one of the latest being the MX6932b. This is a powerful system that, as the label proudly boasts, is ...

The CF-W5 is the baby of Panasonic's Toughbook range, a thin (268 x 210 x 44mm), ultra-portable laptop weighing in at a very creditable 1.4kg including the power adapter, but the protection comes at a price. ...

As the name suggests, Rock's Xtreme range of laptops is designed to boldly go where no other machines have gone before and has thus garnered a reputation for being cool and cutting-edge as a result. The ...

Part of HP's extensive line-up of business notebooks, the Compaq nc6400 (RM100ET) is a well built, well featured laptop offering good performance and - very importantly for a business machine - a good deal of integrated ...

The Q35 may be the bigger sibling of Samsung's diminutive ultraportable notebook, the Q30, but weighing in at just 1.89kg it can still claim to be a lightweight and should pose few problems for anyone wanting ...

When you think of Dell's XPS family you automatically think of big, powerful desktops or equally big gaming laptops, but the XPS M1210 bucks this trend by being a small, seemingly ultra-portable machine. But it's a ...

The sub-£500 notebook segment of the market is becoming a real battlefield, with lots of vendors vying with each offer to offer the best deal on price and features. The real winners are the customers, as ...

The Satellite Pro A120SE is the latest addition to Toshiba's well known family of business notebooks and at this price even the smallest business on the tightest of budgets could be interested. Part of the reason ...

Like most, if not all laptop vendors, the introduction of Intel's Core 2 Duo has given HP a very good reason for new models to be dropped into product lines or to give old models a ...

There's a tendency among some laptop reviewers to judge products by their price. In some cases this is justified, since market forces dictate that cheaper products are usually cheaper for a reason: they may use cheaper ...

While it seems that everyone and their dog has a notebook range these days, companies that have been in the game for a long time tend to get overlooked. One of the biggest of these, Toshiba, ...

The latest version of MV's Mobeus 13 notebook sees the family brought bang up to date in terms of performance and features and, while it doesn't have the immediate 'wow' factor of some laptops around at ...