It’s the most expensive laptop we’ve looked at yet. David Hollingworth ponders if you get the right amount of bang for your buck.

A Blu-ray drive is just about the only justification for the Sony’s high price; it’s poor value overall.

A remarkably tough machine that will endure almost anything thrown at it, although this comes at a price.

Luxurious extras and design make this a highly desirable machine. It’s ideal if space is at a premium at home.

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

The format wars continue as Blu Ray comes to a monster laptop at a monster price.

It might lack style and cutting edge technology, but this 19" monster packs in power and features.

World's Fastest Notebook.

Seriously powerful mobile gaming grunt with all the bling, from Dell. Yep, Dell.

Pioneer’s new DreamBook Power uses the Clevo D900K chassis which offers the size and space required to cool the blisteringly fast components contained within (see the specs box below).

Any way you look at it, ITC’s Millennia 7350 is a monster.

This tiny notebook, measuring a mere 26.5 x 22 x 2.1cm looks quite ordinary on the outside, yet comes with quite an interesting processor inside. The Valeo CP10 is not powered by Intel or AMD, nor even Transmeta, but instead has one of the first VIA Antaur CPUs we've come across.

We find this model hovering in the no-man's-land between desktop replacement and notebook. Its large form factor and huge screen come at the expense of weight, while the wireless and large battery do make it viable for users on the move.

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.

Powered by a 1.6GHz mobile Pentium processor, featuring dual-band 802.11a/g wireless capability and sporting a 15.4in wide-screen display, the Dell D800 represents the best of the Latitude series of notebooks. At around 3.3kg, it is not light, nor is it thin – but is complemented by an exceptional finish and a solid set of technology.

Acer has taken a different tack to IBM with its version of Centrino. Whereas the ThinkPad focused on being small and portable, the TravelMate 800 is a better-featured notebook with a 1.6GHz processor, 15in display and a fast graphics chip

When it comes to design principles, the IBM embodies a completely different approach to the Toshiba

For as long as the Labs has been running, Dell has been a regular participant, and has also been a consistent performer.

The Toshiba Satellite 5100 attracted by far the most attention around the PC Authority office this month