Light, packed with features and with superb battery life: the ideal business notebook.

New chip will be aimed at ultra-portable notebooks ranging in display sizefrom 11in to 13.3in.

The battle between portable devices is heating up.

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

The Asus U6V simply can’t compete with the new breed of Centrino 2 ultraportables

Lenovo’s diminutive business portable packs in high performance, great battery life and top build quality.

Superb battery life and features, but poor build quality and an uncomfortable keyboard scupper the Lifebook

Great performance, but variable quality and poor battery life harm the U6’s business ambitions

Could a new wave of cheaper ultra-portables make you reconsider the cheap-as-chips netbook?

We rarely recommend 17in notebooks to friends, because they’re too clunky and expensive. Apple has solved half the problem.

A real prizefighter of a laptop: powerful, well-built and reasonably mobile, too

The cheapest way to get OS X, but it has all of the MacBook Pro’s shortcomings and more of its own

The design is impeccable, the build superb and the screen extraordinary, but the price is a huge barrier. We ponder the icon that is the Macbook Pro 17in

With only Dell's disappointing Inspiron Mini 12 so far released, Samsung doesn't have a great deal of competition at this size. The NC20 has six-hour battery life, fine performance and a superb display

Dell's 12.1in netbook could have been good, but you'd have to buy one in the US to realise its true potential

Smells like green spirit, and offers performance at a budget price. The ASUS F6V Green is a laptop with something a little different

It resembles the excellent MSI Wind, but the inclusion of Linux-based gOS operating system makes this one super-cheap piece of hardware

The HP Mini 2140 injects a little prestige back into netbooks, blending style with decent performance and respectable specs.

Neither fish nor fowl, the N10J nonetheless manages to command both graphics and portability