After Dell finally launched its netbook, the Mini 9, there was still one major manufacturer's netbook that some people were waiting to get their hands on: the one promised from Lenovo. Well, the wait is over, ...

When Acer first introduced its Gemstone Blue range of notebooks early in 2008, most people were immediately taken by the dark-blue-fading-to-black glossy lid, and it was only when the lid was opened that there were groans ...

One of the three recently launched Portégé series notebooks, the A600 is an ultra-portable laptop that is the slightly heftier brother of the R500 series. The latter, in case you didn't know, is the world's lightest ...

Asus can be credited with having started the whole netbook idea off (at least in its current incarnation - we haven't forgotten Psion). Even if you want to argue against that proposition, perhaps opting for Intel ...

If ever there was an apt name for a notebook then Rock's Xtreme SL8 family of hardcore gaming notebooks wears it with pride. There is nothing subtle about any of them: fast performing, huge in stature ...

With its glossy black chassis, Samsung's Q310 will immediately appeal to those with an eye for style. Whether or not you appreciate the red streak along the wrist-rest is another matter. The shiny black plastic is ...

Having planted the idea of netbooks into people's consciousness a year ago with the Eee PC 701, Asus has since given us 8.9-inch (the 900 and 9010) and 10-inch (the 1000) versions. With its latest addition ...

LG doesn't release laptops in the UK. Or at least it didn't. But it has just released the X110, which is one of the new netbook machines. In this case it comes with mobile broadband and ...

Dell has proven adept at watching a new technology or market segment evolve and mature before launching products to try to capture market share. So it comes as no great surprise that the company has dipped ...

With all the talk and media interest in netbook computers, you'd be forgiven for thinking that nobody is interested in anything with a higher spec. This is far from the case and high-end multimedia laptops can ...

Sony's Vaio Z series is not for the faint hearted. Even the least expensive notebook in the range will set you back £1,399 inc. VAT and if you want the top notch specifications you are able ...

The Latitude E6500 is - as ever from Dell - highly configurable, and the base price, while it might be attractive, will almost certainly not be what most people end up paying. However, the ability to ...

Rock has built up a sturdy reputation over the years for producing cutting-edge PCs that are often geared towards the games market and, in the case of the Xtreme 780, that is it's principal reason for ...

Sony is well known for producing a whole host of stylish VAIO notebooks for home users, but maybe not so well known is its range of business notebooks, the BZ-11MN being the latest. Whereas the consumer ...

Just to confuse people there are two types of Samsung R510 available to the consumer at the moment: a pre Centrino 2 model, which even more confusingly comes with the correct Centrino 2 chipset but without ...

Asus's Republic of Gamers product line carries products that Asus has designed specifically for gamers in mind - no surprise there, then - and while the RoG label is usually associated with motherboards and graphics cards, ...

When is a laptop not a laptop? Or not a notebook? Well, according to Acer, when it's an Aspire One, which is the company's current attempt to rival the success of other mini ‘not-laptops' like Asus's ...

A couple of years ago, HP's PSG (Personal Systems Group) came up with the marketing slogan ‘The Computer is Personal Again', under which a whole raft of interesting and stylish PCs and notebooks were launched. Now ...

There are only so many free megabytes of download you can give away to encourage people to take out a wireless broadband contract. The Carphone Warehouse was one of the first to try offering a ‘free' ...

Samsung's latest 12.1-inch notebook, the NP-Q210 (NP-Q210-AS02UK), is also the first true Centrino 2 model we have seen. Centrino 2 (codename Montevina) is Intel's delayed evolution of the original Centrino technology, featuring a new line-up of ...