Sony does it again with a Notebook to die for.

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

Dell's long awaited entry into the Eee-class notebook market is a top effort, though not perfect.

The two-and-a-half thousand dollar price point is a popular one for PC systems.

A good-looking, ergonomically excellent laptop with a wealth of multimedia capabilities for home users.

Solidly built and packed with features, HP's flagship nx9420 is a very good notebook.

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

If you're after an ultra portable, this isn't the notebook for you. If you're after a large form factored portable desktop replacement, this could be the ticket. This behemoth of a notebook features a 17-inch widescreen display and a footprint to match.

Our pics and first impressions of the hotly anticipated ultra-cheapie, and yes, it's better than the Eee in several ways.

A good-value and very powerful system that will appeal to those seeking ultimate performance.

With consumer PCs these days being as fast as the supercomputers of yesteryear, are dedicated workstations still relevant?

We put out the call to Australia’s white box PC manufacturers for a good high-end $4000 PC and PC Express was the first to respond.

We find this model hovering in the no-man's-land between desktop replacement and notebook. Its large form factor and huge screen come at the expense of weight, while the wireless and large battery do make it viable for users on the move.

When it comes to notebooks, there are a few different flavours with their own specialties.  The trick to purchasing the right notebook is to know your needs and the intended purposes of the unit so you can properly match the correct machine with your requirements.

For such a high specification machine with a large display, we didn’t have high expectations of battery life. We were wrong. Not only is this one of the best looking and functional notebooks we’ve played with in some time, but this notebook managed to stay operating at full load with a looping productivity test for well over three and a half hours – enough for students, road warriors and home users.

A startling achievement: a highly capable mini-laptop for under $700. Only mediocre battery life mars its appeal.

The Qosmio is the absolute pinnacle in multimedia notebooks. It brings everything you need for a good Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) system and squeezes it into a notebook form-factor. Albeit a large notebook form-factor. Yes the Qosmio is a huge and heavy notebook, but it's not nearly as heavy as it would have been if it was packed with desktop internals as many desknotes of this size usually are.

Great design and build quality are coupled with a stunning nine-hour battery life, and it’s affordable too

Fast, well built and superbly featured - our business laptop of choice.

While many ultraportable laptops, like the Toshiba R200 go all out to get size and weight to an absolute minimum, a great deal of usability is often sacrificed – the X505 is impractically small for constant daily usage while the R200 has limited battery sizes.