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.

New card replaces 8600 GTS and aims for playable DirectX 10 performance without breaking the bank.

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.

The hot items rumoured for this week's show, including nVidia's 9800 GX2 and a new ASUS EeePC.

Larger hard drives, multitouch and nVidia 8600M GT graphics and loads of ports - here's your machine if you don't like the Air.

Dell have quadrupled their efforts and released a gaming machine that includes four hard drives, quad GPU and a Quad Intel processor. The price starts at $3,000, which makes us wonder if gamers are still better off going for a whitebox.

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

If you're wondering if a netbook is the perfect laptop for you, ask yourself this: will you want to work or play on your new laptop for hours at a time whilst viewing a screen 10 inches in size?

We rarely recommend 17in notebooks to friends, because they’re too clunky and expensive. Apple has solved half the problem.

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

Could a new wave of cheaper ultra-portables make you reconsider the cheap-as-chips netbook?

Notebook features get air-tastic, with ASUS' new N50 portable packing an Air Ionizer for freeing your workspace from allergens and germs.

Should you, or do you, care about your laptop's looks? We're in two minds after seeing today's new notebook lineup.

Picking a winner in the high-def wars is easy with this bargain PC, and you’ll never guess where we found it . . .

Deciding on the HTPC or a streaming media box path is a major factor in building the perfect home entertainment network. Viewsonic's new box is making us rethink the Nettop as an option.

We've heard much about the promise, and now some new augmented reality video footage has us wondering if it's a better idea than we first thought

And we’re gearing up for more HD TVs, laptops, cameras, wireless devices that Las Vegas and CES 2009 can throw at us. Yes, we’re going to Vegas.

All the cool kids have Bamboo-ified tech, don't you know. ASUS's new Bamboo Series notebook certainly grabbed our attention at a recent launch event.

Replay our blog from the show floor at Steve Ballmer's address at "Liberation Day" in Sydney.

It's a PC, it's a PVR, and it's a Blu-Ray player - could the new TP2 be the answer to all your HD dreams?