It’s not the most powerful, but its games performance and features help the Toshiba A350 stand out in the price bracket for mid-price laptops

Dell's previous 13.3in XPS - the M1330 - was a delightful portable, but the XPS 13 makes it look scruffy by comparison.

MSI's Prestige laptop comes with a whole bunch of goodies: how does a wireless mouse, 4GB USB key, leather carrybag and leather stitched lid sound, for starters? And that's before you look under the lid.

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

Is Apple good at design? Usabilty? Both or neither? Also, where has all the Firewire gone? Alex Kidman has been testing Apple's new Macbook and gives his first impressions.

Designed to sit between the low-end Inspiron and high-end XPS families, it comes in 15in and 17in flavours and its target audience could be pretty much anyone: few laptops are as customisable as this.

Despite some odd feature choices, this is an affordable powerhouse of a laptop. A great value mid-range Centrino 2 laptop, as long as you're not worried about battery life.

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

Still one of the best examples of laptop design in the market, but there are compromises

A decent machine with plenty of power, but it’s not earth shattering in terms of features and value.

Good value, but it needs to decide whether it’s a business or consumer notebook.

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

Very powerful and, with few features missing, it’s good value at the price.

Dell's 6400 is a great value mid-range notebook with very few weaknesses. The support is the icing on the cake.

We heard that Apple may be changing its slogan from “Think Different” to “CONFORM!”

The branding reflects the exclusivity, but not necessarily the capability.

A solid but unremarkable notebook offering a good set of features and excellent warranty.

The Inspiron 630m is Dell’s first 14-inch widescreen notebook.

Not all multimedia notebooks have to weigh in around the $5000 mark. Digital Star’s 15.4in widescreen PowerNote Z71V offers very good value for money for a laptop sporting a 2GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM and a 128MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 graphics chip.

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.