Acer and AMD are both sponsors of the Ferrari F1 team, and the relationship extends well beyond simply slapping each others logos on respective products.

Slim and stylish, this isn’t the most powerful quad core we’ve seen, but it’s by far the cheapest.

A superb package for the price, with plenty of power. Only the unambitious battery life lets it down.

A huge 18.4in widescreen, Blu-ray drive and a big hard disk make this a great entertainment laptop

Acer’s Aspire one makes a splash. A great keyboard, a fine screen and a keen price make for a superb mini-laptop

Acer's latest Aspire has the familiar Acer look we've come to expect in recent months but with a few nice tweaks.

The Acer Aspire 1692 WLMi is a story of compromises; a +/-/RAM dual layer burner and gigabit Ethernet are offset by Windows XP Home, only 512MB of RAM and the slowest processor and hard disk of the bunch.

Acer was one of the few big name manufacturers that were able to meet our stringent pricing criteria. The submitted notebook, the TravelMate, is not a so bad overall, but it couldn't win out against the smaller manufacturer's abilities to get top components at short notice. Where Acer excels is in after-sales support.

Slick looks and astonishing battery life make this the pick of the bunch for travelers, especially for the business person on the go.

Despite some welcome additions and good components, this Acer notebook is left wanting.

In what is an interesting first time foray into the crowded PDA market, Acer is hedging its bets by releasing both Palm- and Pocket PC-based PDAs. It's a curious gambit to be sure, and we're content to see which PDA branch blossoms while the other withers.

Acer has sacrificed overall power in favour of features with this moderate little system.

This notebook is the winner of our Light Laptops roundup. It's solid in every area rather than outstanding in one, and very attractively priced.

A decent notebook but too expensive for the features on offer.

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

The Acer Aspire SA20 is a machine built on a budget and it performs accordingly.

The Acer has all the bells and whistles you're going to need as a student, or mobile office worker; and then some.

The Acer Aspire has a lot of handy multimedia functions that help it work as a desktop replacement/media unit. One of the Aspire’s main selling points is the Arcade feature, which is a Windows Media Centre clone. A button on the notebook fascia opens Arcade, bypassing the Windows OS and enabling all media player functions: DVD, MP3 etc. It works quite well but isn’t as graphically stunning as MCE.

It’s an odd gambit business-wise: align your own brand with that of another. But for Acer, the one-off team-up with Ferrari to brand and produce the Acer Ferrari 3000 notebook has resulted in a stunning product.

Acer’s tiny new Tablet PC, the TravelMate C111 marries the functionality of their previous convertible tablet with the low-power high-performance functionality of the Intel Centrino.