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

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

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

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

Superior GPU needed for OSX 10.6

We’ve just seen the demo, and frankly, we’re blown away. High resolution beach-scapes, ultra-realistic water ripples, wind blowing through the tall grass. Wait, is that...?

A fantastic specification notebook with all the trimmings you'd expect to find on more expensive notebooks, the Joybook 8100-V13 has a 15.4in widescreen WXGA with native 1280 x 800 resolution. With ATI's Mobility RADEON 9600 graphics, boasting 64MB dedicated video memory, it's great for DVD playback or gaming -- the unit returned 9,502 marks under 3DMark01SE Pro, more than enough to provide comfortable gameplay with a decent number of fps even in recent games. BenQ has gone as far as to include not just a DVD-ROM for DVD movie playback, but an optical DVD writer, capable of 2-speed DVD+R media writing, ideal for both business archiving or for personal backup.

Great looks, superb build quality and a world beating software package. It would threaten the A list if it were just a little cheaper.

We've put both mini-notebooks through their paces, and while Linux fans may disagree, the winner is clear.