Great ergonomics are let down by a few mediocre components and limited portability. But some features will tempt many.

Impressive quality, considering the bargain basement price. We're talking sub $1000 here.

Amazingly good value for what you get: a fully-featured, dual-core, ergonomic notebook.

It’s great value and will tempt some people thanks to its size and multimedia abilities.

A laptop of luxury, but practicality suffers and you pay a hefty premium.

A notebook fortress to equip your workforce with confidence, but sub-par performance.

Good features, good quality and good value - it’s also the fastest ultraportable we’ve seen.

A well priced portable that doesn't skimp on features, and packs a suprisingly powerful punch.

A cool, quiet and capable mini-PC that should agree with your budget.

Great looks, a good software bundle and hardware that almost completes the package.

Small, powerful and relatively cheap. This baby notebook is an ideal travel companion.

Small but packed with features, this Lifebook is a stunner.

An excellent mid-range laptop for work, but not fun.

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

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.

Everybody, who hasn’t already got one, wants a decent laptop.

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.

Stylish and packed with features, it is not the cheapest 12 inch notebook available. This said, if you simply must have the features on offer inside this 'book, then this notebook does it all with style.

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