The latest model in Toshiba's popular line of stylish and slimline Portégé sub-notebooks, the 3480CT, comes in at the top of the range and is based around a 600MHz Pentium III chip and an 11.3-inch screen. ...

The Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook B-2154 is the smallest of the sub-notebooks featured here, by quite a margin. It's almost a hand-held, in fact, a legacy of the company's forays into industrial stock-checking systems and suchlike. Despite ...

Elonex's Piranha Pro weighs in at a reasonable 2kg on its own or 3.5kg when attached to the docking station which is supplied as standard. The notebook itself is only 3cm high and when attached to ...

Compaq's Armada M300 sub-notebook has been updated, and now uses a 600MHz Intel Mobile Pentium III processor. Ultra thin, and ultra light, the M300 itself is only 2.7cm high and weighs just 1.4kg. Users needing a ...

Sitting at the lower end of the sub-notebook price range, the AJP M722 may lack a little in build quality, but makes up for it with its performance and, in particular, its battery life. Fitted with ...

At just 21mm high, the Acer TravelMate 351TEV is the thinnest notebook featured here. Enclosed in a magnesium alloy casing, not only is it tough, it also weighs a respectably low 1.8kg. And, powered by a ...

The GT8650XT from Samsung has a functional and contemporary design. Suitable for both corporate and personal business users, it comes with a 14.1-inch XGA colour TFT screen, which is protected by a robust magnesium alloy case. ...

Some notebooks are made for travel, and virtually all are made for business, but the iconoclastic Packard Bell Chroma (the company spells it 'Chrom@') is intended for neither. Instead, Packard Bell has come up with a ...

Dell must know that it's on to a good thing with its Inspiron 5000 series notebook, since it improves the specification in various ways but doesn't change the design. This is what's happened with the latest ...

IBM has recently rebranded its ThinkPad range of notebooks into two broad categories, with an A or a T prefix distinguishing between them. A-series machines are considered desktop alternatives, while the T-series is aimed at users ...

The Inspiron 3800 is Dell's most affordable power notebook, and as such is aimed at the small business or home buyer who wants a laptop rather than a desktop cluttering up the place. It comes with ...

The Vaio is easily the most expensive SpeedStep notebook we've tested, and although dealer discounting should knock something off it will remain a pricey choice. The spec doesn't differ wildly from the high-end norm, with 128MB ...

The cheapest of the SpeedStep machines we've looked at is Rock's Sigma, which combines a 600MHz PIII SpeedStep processor with a sensible 128MB of SDRAM and a mid-size 6GB Toshiba hard disk. The spec is fleshed ...

Like the rest of the SpeedStep machines reviewed here (apart from the Rock), the Omnibook 900B is powered by the 650MHz SpeedStep PIII processor from Intel. What makes it unusual is that unlike the others - ...

The Solo is a fairly large three-spindle machine weighing 3.6kg, like the Dell Inspiron. The core specification is similar, although this time 96MB of SDRAM is standard, but once again you get a big 12GB removable ...

One of the heaviest SpeedStep notebooks at 3.6kg, the Inspiron is also the most obviously intended as a desktop replacement, with its 650MHz SpeedStep PIII chip, 128MB of SDRAM as standard, large 12GB hard disk, 6-speed ...

The ACI Precedent gets off to a good start by being more or less identical to Dell's Inspiron 5000, which has received a deservedly good press elsewhere. This particular Precedent does differ in one respect, namely ...

Notebooks costing less than a grand including VAT have a regrettable tendency to be complete crap, so we approached the Umax Actionbook 345T with some circumspection, eyes open for the killer defect that would consign it ...

The latest Tecra is a typically businesslike offering aimed at the corporate bulk purchaser equipping its workforce. The core spec is middle of the road, even slightly conservative, with a Pentium III/500 in the driving seat, ...

In the past, when Taiwanese manufacturers have tried to squeeze a desktop processor into a bulky laptop system the end result has invariably been horrific in pretty much all respects. Not so with this model from ...