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 ...

Even if you think you've seen some large laptops, nothing quite prepares you for the size of Acer's Aspire 9800. It's not so much a desktop replacement as a desk replacement. The reason for its huge ...

The latest addition to the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo range of notebooks is the small, elegant Si1520 which, despite its small, thin and light design, packs quite a punch due to the dual core processor at its ...

Dell has been refreshing and updating its Inspiron line of laptops, replacing old models with new ones incorporating the latest technologies. Looking stylish in its white and silver finish, the Inspiron 640m is the replacement for ...

Acer's tie up with Ferrari has proved very fruitful for the computer company and presumably also for the car company, since they've just repeated the exercise with a new pair of style-rich notebooks. The top-end machine, ...

Once the mainstay of many a corporate employee, IBM's ThinkPad range (now under the Lenovo banner) would, you might assume, have been put out to grass by now, what with its austere matt black finish and ...

Core Duo notebooks are coming thick and fast, one of the latest being the Vaio VGN-SZ1M/B from Sony. The Vaio SZ series sits neatly between the tiny TX series and the larger FJ series and is ...

Just by looking at the Compaq nx6125, you know exactly who HP is targeting, clothed as it is in its corporate dark grey skin. But before you dismiss it as just another boring business laptop, it ...

The Prowire 153 is the latest no-nonsense, corporate laptop from Elonex. While it's not as slim and sylish, nor as well put together, as some business notebooks, it makes up for this in performance and battery ...

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 ...