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

Well designed, solid and well-featured, but the battery life sells it short.

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

Dell’s long-awaited netbook has much to recommend it, but it’s far from the perfect product.

Great for executives on the move thanks to size and decent battery life, but the missing optical drive disappoints

Great for executives on the move thanks to size and decent battery life, but the missing optical drive disappoints.

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

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

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

Dell’s first foray into using AMD processors is a modest performer, but fair value.

An adequate Media Centre PC, but Asus’ competitor blows it out of the water.

An impressive attempt at a good-value portable PC, but the ergonomics let it down.

Small but perfectly formed, the D420 has hours of battery life and loads of features and great ergonomics.

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 for the price. It’s just not very exciting.

Reasonable performance, great features and good battery life all make this a decent business ultraportable. But Lenovo’s X60 is better.

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