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.

Is Centrino 2 the leap ahead that Centrino was? Zara Baxter investigates.

The Centrino platform has just received a major revision. Tim Dean peers inside Sonoma and takes a look at what we can expect.

The newest version of Intel’s laptop platform is here. We unveil and test real Santa Rosa hardware.

With the slow Australian take-off of the Centrino platform, higher spec, slightly larger form factored units are making their way into the marketplace. Intel's Pentium-M processors are ramping up in speed, now available in 1.7GHz values and still impressing.

Superior GPU needed for OSX 10.6

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

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.

Apple has given its MacBook Pro a thorough makeover but, for all its charm, it’s still overpriced.

It's the return of the twin graphics chip powered laptop, but this time Core2 Duo power is under the hood.

Oh, and it’s power efficient too. Follow our coverage of the next big desktop processor from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Wolrd of Warcraft sneaks into a demo by Intel; and the chip giant talks more about Atom. It all sounds eerily like Via.

By the time you read this, Intel will have fired off its keynote salvo at the aggregated masses attending Computex 2008. Here's what they'll be discussing.

NVidia has launched what it’s calling the most advanced integrated notebook graphics and chipset solution in history.

In a world filled with gorgeous Sony, Apple and even Dell laptops, a sober, matte black machine aimed at consumers has to be truly special to turn heads. The IdeaPad Y430 is a well-built Centrino 2 machine that lacks nothing in the way of features, speed or value

The Asus U6V simply can’t compete with the new breed of Centrino 2 ultraportables

Italian supercar-themed notebooks for when image is everything.

When we ran four tablet PCs in December 2002 (Issue 61, page 36) we got plenty of response from readers looking to find out more about them. Over a year on now and tablets have increased dramatically in spec and design although pricing hasn’t reduced as much as we’d expected - possibly since they still haven’t made mass market appeal and sales.

Still one of the best examples of laptop design in the market, but there are compromises