Acer's new TravelMate notebook is a slimline 2-spindle machine measuring 33mm thick when closed and weighing only 2.3kg, which makes it a suitable choice if you are planning to travel with it. The core specification is ...

The sub-notebook category of PCs represents something of a contradiction. When faced with the latest slimline, ultraportable notebook, the gasps of admiration and desire from onlookers are audible. When it comes to actually buying a new ...

The Sony Vaio PCG-FX101 is strange. This is because it looks very ordinary. It looks suspiciously like any other OEM notebook, knocked-up from cases bought in bulk from some Taiwanese factory and full of bog standard ...

With the Satellite S35DVD, Toshiba has aimed at the middle ground between the true sub-notebook and a full-sized machine too large and heavy to actually carry around on a regular basis. The Satellite weighs about 2kg ...

Never thought you could play serious games on a notebook? Think again. The latest offering from Dell in its Inspiron notebook range, the 8000 1000UT, goes way beyond the capabilities of the normal notebook to deliver ...

Notebook PCs have always packed rather less punch than their desktop box counterparts, due mainly to the restrictions of space and the cost of miniaturisation. But Tiny - incidentally the UK's largest indigenous PC company - ...

The Armada E500 is Compaq's most powerful corporate notebook, following an update which now puts an 850MHz PIII SpeedStep in the driving seat. Being beefy, Compaq and corporate means a correspondingly inflated price, but let's face ...

The latest model in Toshiba's popular line of stylish and slimline Portégé sub-notebooks, the 3480CT, comes in at the top of the range and is based around a 600MHz Pentium III chip and an 11.3-inch screen. ...

The Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook B-2154 is the smallest of the sub-notebooks featured here, by quite a margin. It's almost a hand-held, in fact, a legacy of the company's forays into industrial stock-checking systems and suchlike. Despite ...

Elonex's Piranha Pro weighs in at a reasonable 2kg on its own or 3.5kg when attached to the docking station which is supplied as standard. The notebook itself is only 3cm high and when attached to ...

Compaq's Armada M300 sub-notebook has been updated, and now uses a 600MHz Intel Mobile Pentium III processor. Ultra thin, and ultra light, the M300 itself is only 2.7cm high and weighs just 1.4kg. Users needing a ...

Sitting at the lower end of the sub-notebook price range, the AJP M722 may lack a little in build quality, but makes up for it with its performance and, in particular, its battery life. Fitted with ...

At just 21mm high, the Acer TravelMate 351TEV is the thinnest notebook featured here. Enclosed in a magnesium alloy casing, not only is it tough, it also weighs a respectably low 1.8kg. And, powered by a ...

The GT8650XT from Samsung has a functional and contemporary design. Suitable for both corporate and personal business users, it comes with a 14.1-inch XGA colour TFT screen, which is protected by a robust magnesium alloy case. ...

Some notebooks are made for travel, and virtually all are made for business, but the iconoclastic Packard Bell Chroma (the company spells it 'Chrom@') is intended for neither. Instead, Packard Bell has come up with a ...

Dell must know that it's on to a good thing with its Inspiron 5000 series notebook, since it improves the specification in various ways but doesn't change the design. This is what's happened with the latest ...

IBM has recently rebranded its ThinkPad range of notebooks into two broad categories, with an A or a T prefix distinguishing between them. A-series machines are considered desktop alternatives, while the T-series is aimed at users ...

The Inspiron 3800 is Dell's most affordable power notebook, and as such is aimed at the small business or home buyer who wants a laptop rather than a desktop cluttering up the place. It comes with ...

The Vaio is easily the most expensive SpeedStep notebook we've tested, and although dealer discounting should knock something off it will remain a pricey choice. The spec doesn't differ wildly from the high-end norm, with 128MB ...

The cheapest of the SpeedStep machines we've looked at is Rock's Sigma, which combines a 600MHz PIII SpeedStep processor with a sensible 128MB of SDRAM and a mid-size 6GB Toshiba hard disk. The spec is fleshed ...