From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

Here's our quick guide to buying a cheap laptop that isn't a pile of junk - from CPUs, to graphics, to price and other specs.

AMD has this week launched new 40nm graphics processors, and is promising notebook video "beyond 1080p HD resolution"..

A great desktop replacement thanks to the huge screen and dual 200GB hard disks, but its price is too high.

An inexpensive laptop that, when it comes to style and quality, more than punches above its weight

A real prizefighter of a laptop: powerful, well-built and reasonably mobile, too

Revamped branding called Vision will make it easier to see which laptop to buy, according to AMD.

Blu-Ray notebooks are the next battleground, and the good news is they're slowly getting cheaper. ASUS is staking a claim with this monstrously powerful behemoth.

HP's new line of business laptops feature high definition displays and prices start from a budget-busting $919

A stunning screen, generous specification and good performance combine with superb results for the Dell XPS 16

A great desktop replacement thanks to the huge screen and dual 200GB hard disks, but its price is too high.

Buying a mid-range Dell notebook now means a choice between Dell's Inspiron, Studio and XPS notebooks. We examine the value.

We sat down with AMD at CES to see what the company has in store for 2009, and find some things worth getting excited about.

Looks and feels great, but a hefty price – once you’ve tweaked its specs – means that rivals offer better value

An impressive touchscreen all-in-one PC for an equally impressive price, but the single-core Atom holds it back

A superb package for the price, with plenty of power. Only the unambitious battery life lets it down.

MSI's MegaBook L61OI lives up to its 'mega' moniker with a large 15.4-inch widescreen TFT, desktop CPU, excellent graphics and pumping audio. The model we looked at was a pre-production prototype notebook and as such was a little shaky and did not come with all the inclusions a final model will have. As a proof of concept, however, the notebook is quite good.

The Excel G736 notebook from Protac is a desktop replacement, and as well as better-than-normal notebook specifications it also comes with the other traditional trapping of a desktop replacement notebook: it's big, it's chunky, and it's heavy.

It’s an odd gambit business-wise: align your own brand with that of another. But for Acer, the one-off team-up with Ferrari to brand and produce the Acer Ferrari 3000 notebook has resulted in a stunning product.

Apple’s 17-inch PowerBook G4 is a thing of beauty, shaming the other 17- inch notebooks with its size, weight and design – perhaps with the exception of the ASUS.