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

There’s a lot to like, but it doesn’t stand out from the crowd.

Another good laptop from Toshiba, but the 12.1in Portégé M800 struggles in such fine company.

Superb speakers, a whopping 640GB of storage and decent core components make this a solid choice

Battery life is turning into a major selling point, as we discover when we tested Toshiba's new mini NB100 netbook.

Powerful and well featured, but the ergonomics and battery life let it down.

It lacks the frills of others here, but the Toshiba is ideal if you want a 17in screen at the lowest price.

Slim, good-looking and affordable – and you can even work outside in sunlight. Just note the niggles.

A good, basic notebook that’s specifically designed with the accident-prone user in mind.

A stunning way to enjoy HD DVD, but the wonderful design and features come at a price

Toshiba won this month's cat walk competition.

Toshiba’s R100 redefined what it meant to be an ultra-portable laptop.

The Toshiba Satellite P30 is a 17-inch behemoth with a price tag to match.

Widescreen is still one of the flavours of the month for notebooks and plenty of users are opting to banish boring old 4:3 aspect ratio LCD panels to the land of wind and ghosts.

The Portege A200 also has many of the necessary features we would expect in an education notebook, including LAN and modem ports, two USB ports, a DVD-ROM, and 802.11b/g with an wireless on/off switch.

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.

Widescreen notebooks are the way of the future, really they are. With entertainment now proficiently done on the go, why would we go back to limited 4:3 aspect ratio? It's far easier to work on two spreadsheets concurrently in widescreen without needing to alt tab like a madman. Toshiba, like many manufacturers, has seen this need and provided such a product.

Toshiba don't often venture into lower price point notebooks, so we were quite impressed to receive a system from them under $2500, let alone a desktop Pentium 4 3GHz processor, DVD burner and 64MB ATI RADEON 9000 IGP graphics.

When we ran four tablet PCs in December 2002 (Issue 61, page 36) we got plenty of response from readers looking to find out more about them. Over a year on now and tablets have increased dramatically in spec and design although pricing hasn’t reduced as much as we’d expected - possibly since they still haven’t made mass market appeal and sales.

This is no ordinary notebook, sporting Intel’s 1.6GHz Centrino processor with a 1MB on-die L2 cache, 400MHz frontside bus and a half gig of DDR. It’s nothing short of impressively fast.