Revolutionary features and stunning power: for anyone lucky enough to have the cash, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is the ultimate mobile workstation

Not a stylish machine, but it’s good value, well built and boasts surprisingly impressive battery life

Lightweight but perfect for heavy duty business, this ultraportable is sure to impress.

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

Like Volvos of old, Lenovo was a solid, reliable and unexciting name. Up until now. The business-masters have turned out a very desirable, stylish and powerful laptop.

Great ergonomics are let down by a few mediocre components and limited portability. But some features will tempt many.

A new way forward for ultraportables, combining an incredible low weight with unrivalled ergonomic excellence

A good netbook with lots of storage, but battery life keeps it from being great

Light, packed with features and with superb battery life: the ideal business notebook.

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

While many ultraportable laptops, like the Toshiba R200 go all out to get size and weight to an absolute minimum, a great deal of usability is often sacrificed – the X505 is impractically small for constant daily usage while the R200 has limited battery sizes.

Well designed, solid and well-featured, but the battery life sells it short.

A notebook fortress to equip your workforce with confidence, but sub-par performance.

Lenovo’s diminutive business portable packs in high performance, great battery life and top build quality.

Well built and with astonishing battery life to boot. It’s pricey but decent value.

Durable, powerful and packed with security features. A phenomenal ultraportable.

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

Fantastic battery life and a transflective screen aren’t enough to justify a price this high for the everyday business user.

This notebook was designed from the ground up with business and security in mind, and it succeeds.

This impressive ultraportable fills a narrow but significant niche between the MacBook Air and Lenovo X300