If you like your notebooks small and fully functional, then Sony's Vaio VGN-TX1XP must be one of your objects of desire, with its winning combination of small size, light weight, usable keyboard and long battery life. ...

The laptop computing boom has, we suspect, come as rather good news for Acer. Few manufacturers have come up with quite as comprehensive a line, and few have managed, at the affordable end of the range, ...

On the surface the Acer TravelMate 3010 looks like a good buy. It's very neat, it weighs just 1.5kg with the standard battery pack (or 1.65kg with the extended life battery) and it has every connection ...

Rock Direct's Pegasus 650 has an interesting solution to the mobile user's dilemma of graphics performance versus battery life. You know the problem: should you go along the integrated graphics route and get longer battery life ...

The key feature of the Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S2110 is the AMD Turion processor, because this is the first professional Fujitsu-Siemens laptop to use AMD hardware. That may sound like a significant breakthrough for AMD, but the ...

Toshiba's Satellite Pro M70 is part of the company's Business Value range of notebooks and, to quote Toshiba; "Combining great design and cutting edge performance the Satellite Pro M70 series is ideal for power hungry computing." ...

The brief for the Iridium Durabook (a.k.a. the Hardbook when sold via Rock) was as follows; a laptop designed to be rugged and waterproof, yet attractive enough to sit in a business environment. It's managed to ...

Usually, when hearing the words 'ultra-portable notebook', one might think of something small and grey being carried around by someone wearing a suit. Not so with the Averatec 1050; this is one ultra-portable that's aimed at ...

The recently introduced m5700 is the smaller (3.6kg) sibling of Alienware's monster m7700 desktop replacement notebook, although making a laptop that weighs less than 5.4kg isn't exactly the most challenging concept for a notebook manufacturer. This ...

In order to grab the public's imagination in an increasingly crowded desktop replacement market, laptop computer companies are having to either offer a basket load of extras and gadgets or to go heavily for one particular ...

With laptops taking over ever bigger chunks of the PC market, it comes as no great shock to find them in market segments which were, until recently, the sole domain of the desktop. First it was ...

Around this time of year, interest is high in cheap, portable computers that can still pack a punch whilst also offering entertainment possibilities. To that end, HP has recently refreshed some of its range of consumer ...

Here's a blast from the past that you may recognise. Gateway, the company that was such a dominant force in the market until it disappeared into the sunset (i.e. back to the USA) in 2001, is ...

As laptops take an ever increasing chunk of the home user PC market, it comes as no real surprise to find that most of the major players have at least one gaming notebook on their books, ...

Just one look at the HP Compaq nc4200 tells you exactly who this ultraportable notebook is aimed at. With its dark grey/blue suit, it's clearly a tool for the corporate road warrior, but it's a lot ...

In an ideal world an ultraportable notebook should be not much bigger than a handheld PDA, be easy to type on and have much of the functionality of a full-size notebook. Unlikely, we know. More often ...

You may recognise the Libretto name from the distant past, when handheld PCs were all the rage, but while this Libretto U100 may look and feel like the 90s original (a laptop PC about the size ...

Dell is good at watching a segment of the market mature before launching its own killer response. In the recent past it was the Axim series of PDAs. Now the company has launched a fast notebook ...

The question is: when is a laptop a 'desktop replacement'? The usual answer is when it is capable of emulating most of the features of a desktop while still remaining comparatively portable. However, the recent boom ...

Dell has built up a reputation for solid, dependable computers that are generally reliable. More at the conservative end of the market, if you like, than going for something flashy with lots of bells and whistles. ...