Evesham's new Voyager X5 gains instant cachet by having one of Intel's new breed of Pentium M ('Dothan') processors, but as we were to find out, it has more to offer than a fast CPU. And ...

Shall we get the conversation about value for money out the way, right at the start? If you're in the market for a laptop computer, then you'll find plenty available on the market for a lot ...

Rather than follow the more usual design path and create an ultra-portable with no drives bar a hard disk, and about two ports to its name, Toshiba has tried a slightly different approach with the Portégé ...

Iridium's latest notebook appears to have undergone some downsizing. The slim-and-quite-slinky machine features a 12.1-inch screen and compact keyboard that combine to make a smaller laptop than we're use to seeing. It's all deliberate, of course, ...

Anybody who opens the newspaper supplements on a Saturday or Sunday will already be well aware that the prices of laptop computers are dropping. Where once the best part of £1,500 would have got you something ...

Sony has added yet another family to the huge Vaio range of notebooks, namely the K series. This is aimed at home users who want a desktop replacement notebook without paying a (relatively) huge amount for ...

Dell's Inspiron range of notebooks goes from the mobile to the desktop replacement. The latest addition to the line-up, the twin-spindle Inspiron 510M, sits at the higher weight limit of what you might consider 'mobile'. Although ...

Perhaps the ultimate in space-saving PC design, the desktop replacement notebook goes from strength to strength, with popularity showing no signs of waning. And with prices falling they are becoming a reasonable option for the home ...

It's quite entertaining watching the notebook industry cast around for new ideas. After all, the scope is actually fairly limited: that original orange plasma screen Toshiba is still very recognisably a notebook, for all the technological ...

JVC's MP-XP731 follows hard on the heels of the first two second-generation Mobile Mini Note PCs (the MP-XP7230 and the MP-XP5230) and is once more designed to be an essential accessory for the professional on the ...

When the initial shock of meeting the Toshiba Satellite P20 begins to wear off, one begins to see it more clearly for what it actually is. It's as though someone at Toshiba sat up one day ...

The Toughbook range has its roots in muck and grime. The first ones were brutal, armoured things shipped out to the rigs or issued to people who get shot at for a living, and glamorous they ...

The IBM Thinkpad, in one guise or another, has been the mainstay of the mobile corporate user for years, outliving any number of newer, shinier, silver and grey laptops. Many notebooks come and go but the ...

By notebook standards the ACI Sovereign Pro is what most people would think of as big. Not in the Sumo class, perhaps, but definitely a heavyweight; so more Frank Bruno than Barry McGuigan. Still, if performance ...

Notebook PCs are not only a lot more convenient than desktops, they're also close to being better equipped. There's less scope to add extras to a notebook yourself, so clever suppliers are adding in more and ...

Sub-notebooks, or ultra-portables, or whatever you want to call them, are as varied in their way as full-sized notebooks. There are, however, certain generalities to which the majority tends to conform: two-spindle design, sub-2kg weight, 12.1-inch ...

There's a place for radical innovation, for daring leaps of imagination and design, and the corporate notebook is not it. The point of the big business workhorse portable is that it must be a safe bet. ...

Not more than an inch in width and made of gleaming stain and scratch-resistant aluminium, the PowerBook G4 is all about sleekness and sexiness of design. What it isn't, though, is a handy portable to take ...

As with all its notebook lines, Dell has recently re-vamped the corporate Latitude range, giving these laptops a smarter look as well as the latest Intel mobile technology. The Latitude D series is the top of ...

There are seven notebooks in Toshiba's Satellite Pro M10 series, and they all use an Intel Centrino chip. If we're being strictly accurate, Centrino is actually four chips as there is the processor, the chipset units ...