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 ...

Wireless connection to the Internet may have revolutionised the way we use laptops - especially with the growth of 'hot spots' in cafes, airports, etc. - but until recently one main frustration remained unresolved. That, of ...

Right, stop sniggering at the back. Yes, I know you've scanned down the review and seen who's selling this laptop, and you well may find it in between the furry re-creations of the characters from Over ...

The latest addition to Panasonic's Toughbook family of ruggedised notebooks, the CF-74 brings the family up to date using the latest Intel processor for improved performance and, in particular, battery life. Sitting in the Toughbook line-up ...

Fujitsu Siemens has a track record of offering an enormous range of laptops with a huge choice of processors, so it's no surprise that it is backing Intel's new Core Duo processor with a vengeance. Our ...

The natural successor to the X50 that Samsung launched last year, this X60 retains the 15.4-inch screen of its predecessor but is loaded with bang-up-to-date features. Powering the X60 is an Intel Core Duo T2500 CPU ...

There's a penchant for programmes on the TV lately dealing with time travel, and when you first glimpse the latest small notebook from Asus, it's more Life on Mars than Doctor Who. The S6F comes with ...

Mention the acronym 'SLI' and the word 'notebook' in the same sentence and you get a mental picture of a massive, slab-like laptop that has to be confined to a desk because of its weight. This ...