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

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

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

When it comes to accessories, the Aspire has one of the best bundles supplied for this roundup: including an MCE remote and a radio/TV antenna! It also has a decent specification list: 3Ghz Pentium 4; 160GB HDD; and 512MB RAM. The only sticking point here, amongst all this multimedia goodness, is the inclusion of the Mobility X300 video card. It's like building a Ferrari and installing a two-stroke motor. It doesn't make much sense.

The Dell Inspiron 6000 walks into this roundup with a serious disadvantage – packing only an Intel P-M 1.86GHz and an ATI Mobility RADEON X300 it is easily outgunned by the competition.

It’s gorgeous, but it can’t match Sony’s own Z-Series for sheer ultraportable excellence.

NEC’s contribution to the ultraportable market is tougher than most, but it still struggles against the competition

A decent PC with media abilities bolted on, transforming this into a good lounge machine.

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

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

The big feature that sets the 6200TC apart from the 6600's and 6800's is the addition of TurboCache. Currently, graphics cards are typically limited to the memory on the graphics card, but TurboCache opens the door to your PC's system memory.

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

FIC’s Spectra is a slick, quiet, living-room friendly unit.

The first ultraportable notus has landed in Australia, and we're privileged to be the first to look.

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

Impressive in several areas, but other laptops offer better features and more performance for less cash.

You've seen our first impressions, now here's our full review. Good-looking, usable and keenly priced but, for now at least, poor performance and battery life give the Eee the edge

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

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