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

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

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.

Chunky, powerful and intimidating. Everything you want in a PC, but not what you'd want in a media centre.

Whisper quiet, well built and well designed, but a lack of power and expandability will keep enthusiasts away.

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

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 $1000 PC was once regarded as the Holy Grail of computing, but now almost every manufacturer has one.

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.

Hallmark has opted to take advantage of Intel’s Extreme Graphics 2 integrated shared graphics, taking up to 64MB of video memory from the on-board 512MB of PC2700 DDR to power the display. While not designed for gaming, it did manage to churn out almost 3000 points in 3DMark01SE with some help from its Pentium M 1.6GHz CPU.

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.