Slick looks and astonishing battery life make this the pick of the bunch for travelers, especially for the business person on the go.

The Acer has all the bells and whistles you're going to need as a student, or mobile office worker; and then some.

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Acer have put together a well featured notebook at a great price, coming in over $300 lower than our price cap and offering a DVD burner and 2.8GHz P4 processor for maximum grunt.

The Acer AL1751W may have had the distinction of being the only widescreen 17in TFT in this roundup, but this wasn’t the only thing that contributed to its high rankings. Instead it was a combination of the unit’s specifications, its functions and its features that helped it score highly across our strenuous testing regime, plus a little nudge from value for money at the end to get it across the line.

'Absolute consistency' are the words we'd use to describe the performance of the Aspire T310. A solid all-rounder, this machine is just as at home gaming as it is doing 2D tasks, such as productivity applications, anti-virus scanning or media decoding. And, as shown by its impressive 4,271 PCMark04 score, it's not short on horsepower.

ACER TravelMate 630

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Features voice recording and an FM tuner. The device can be fiddly to operate, and the LCD screen doesn't display any track information other than the title. There is no playlist management, and no directory structure for your tracks. Voice recording allows the sampling rate to be set up to 48,000Hz.

Acer has announced a new zero-fault tolerance guarantee, which will replace any LCD screen or notebook containing faulty pixels.

Dells all-black PowerEdge is certainly one of the coolest-looking systems of the bunch, but the 600SC also packs enough power to be a formidable SMB server

Since the release of the Eee PC 701, the 'Notebook' has dominated. Easy to use, cheap and able to be left on the coffee table next to the remote, Notebooks are true appliance computing. The choice of which one to buy comes down to personal preference, but it's hard not to prefer those with the best usability. Our rundown of your options covers their performance, battery life, and design.

If you're in the market for a new laptop, one of the most important, and tricky considerations is battery life. We've bench tested 10 ultimate laptops in our latest issue, and here are the results

The choice of keyboard and mouse will depend on the main use for your PC. Those who do large amounts of typing would do well to invest in a high-quality keyboard, while others could get away with a st

Love or hate them, the Netbook is here to stay in 2009. We take a look at five new models: some are contenders and others are likely to be quickly forgotten.

Not the most feature-rich display here, the AOC LM729 was bettered by most of the other monitors in terms of specification, but managed to rally itself nicely when it came time to test with DisplayMate and our real-world tasks.

Australia's PC market is still going gangbusters, recording second-quarter growth of 14.4 percent and sequential growth of 8.6 percent in latest Gartner statistics.

Latest statistics from Gartner suggest that big-name vendors in Australia sold 24 percent more PCs last year than in the previous year and 7.8 percent more PCs this quarter.

While this system may not be the highest performer overall in the group, it still represents very good value for money, as demonstrated by its above average 112 Value score.