JVC's MP-XP731 follows hard on the heels of the first two second-generation Mobile Mini Note PCs (the MP-XP7230 and the MP-XP5230) and is once more designed to be an essential accessory for the professional on the ...

When the initial shock of meeting the Toshiba Satellite P20 begins to wear off, one begins to see it more clearly for what it actually is. It's as though someone at Toshiba sat up one day ...

The Toughbook range has its roots in muck and grime. The first ones were brutal, armoured things shipped out to the rigs or issued to people who get shot at for a living, and glamorous they ...

The IBM Thinkpad, in one guise or another, has been the mainstay of the mobile corporate user for years, outliving any number of newer, shinier, silver and grey laptops. Many notebooks come and go but the ...

By notebook standards the ACI Sovereign Pro is what most people would think of as big. Not in the Sumo class, perhaps, but definitely a heavyweight; so more Frank Bruno than Barry McGuigan. Still, if performance ...

Notebook PCs are not only a lot more convenient than desktops, they're also close to being better equipped. There's less scope to add extras to a notebook yourself, so clever suppliers are adding in more and ...

Sub-notebooks, or ultra-portables, or whatever you want to call them, are as varied in their way as full-sized notebooks. There are, however, certain generalities to which the majority tends to conform: two-spindle design, sub-2kg weight, 12.1-inch ...

There's a place for radical innovation, for daring leaps of imagination and design, and the corporate notebook is not it. The point of the big business workhorse portable is that it must be a safe bet. ...

Not more than an inch in width and made of gleaming stain and scratch-resistant aluminium, the PowerBook G4 is all about sleekness and sexiness of design. What it isn't, though, is a handy portable to take ...

As with all its notebook lines, Dell has recently re-vamped the corporate Latitude range, giving these laptops a smarter look as well as the latest Intel mobile technology. The Latitude D series is the top of ...

There are seven notebooks in Toshiba's Satellite Pro M10 series, and they all use an Intel Centrino chip. If we're being strictly accurate, Centrino is actually four chips as there is the processor, the chipset units ...

Benq may be a new name for most of us, but the company has been around for quite a while. However, it's only recently that Benq has stepped out of the shadow of parent company Acer. ...

Manufacturers have been putting desktop processors inside notebooks for years, so in a sense the presence of a 2.4GHz desktop Pentium 4 inside IBM's new Thinkpad G40 is hardly ground-breaking. What is interesting is the way ...

One of the laptop manufacturers to adopt Intel's Centrino technology is Iridium, and the company's Starbook 750 notebook is a satisfying marriage of the work of both firms. Yet the first major point of note is ...

Centrino, Centurion... it's an obvious choice of name, really, and it conjures up images of reliability and dependability, which is probably what ACi intended. And the Centurion doesn't disappoint, at least as far as the design, ...

Would it be giving too much away at the outset to say that the only thing we really didn't like about the Samsung X05 XTC 1500 was the nonsense printed all over it? All this guff ...

As more people work on the move, the need for a mobile computer that doesn't weigh a ton, isn't the size of a briefcase and yet gives you enough storage space and battery life to keep ...

In an industry littered with the forgotten wreckage of daft ideas, Intel's Centrino initiative stands out as a model of common sense. Yes, of course it will mean lots more money for Intel, but Centrino is ...

Acer's latest notebook in the TravelMate series, the 803LCi, features Intel's new mobile solution, known as Centrino. This isn't the name of the processor, but rather the complete platform, a combination of the CPU, the i855 ...

This is very much a notebook for people who habitually turn left on boarding an aircraft. Or it would be if anyone was actually strong enough to carry it: with its power supply it weighs a ...