An improvement over the Eee PC 900, with longer battery life and sleeker looks – but its rivals are catching up

A rough, tough laptop with serious attitude, but its keyboard proves an Achilles heel.

Protect your PC from itself and yourself

Lacks in power, but terrific hardware design makes this an intriguing take on the Eee brand.

A good first stab at the semi-ruggedised laptop market. It isn’t up to the tough standards of others, though.

A promising debut for UMPCs, but the controls are tricky to master

Hallmark has opted to take advantage of Intel’s Extreme Graphics 2 integrated shared graphics, taking up to 64MB of video memory from the on-board 512MB of PC2700 DDR to power the display. While not designed for gaming, it did manage to churn out almost 3000 points in 3DMark01SE with some help from its Pentium M 1.6GHz CPU.

Great for executives on the move thanks to size and decent battery life, but the missing optical drive disappoints

Great for executives on the move thanks to size and decent battery life, but the missing optical drive disappoints.

An impressive attempt at a good-value portable PC, but the ergonomics let it down.

The format wars continue as Blu Ray comes to a monster laptop at a monster price.

When everything from your movie collection to your photo album is digital, why would you want to watch it all on a tiny monitor with tinny speakers while your big television and surround sound sits idle in the lounge room?

An impressive touchscreen all-in-one PC for an equally impressive price, but the single-core Atom holds it back

Windows virtualisation that really works: it isn’t without foibles, but it’s a great way of running Windows from OS X.

This is a game that pushes PC hardware to the limit, and puts so called ‘next-gen’ consoles to shame.

One of the slickest looking racers available on PC, but abandon all hope ye without a wheel.

Microsoft finally recognises that web authoring needs a standards-compliant tool, albeit on its own terms.

Relive the joy and excitement of the Cricket World Cup or a fast One Day International.

A marvel of programming, art and science.

A big improvement from Microsoft, but there’s still some way to go. OneCare can now call itself a serious security contender.