Fantastic battery life and a transflective screen aren’t enough to justify a price this high for the everyday business user.

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

It’s gorgeous, but it can’t match Sony’s own Z-Series for sheer ultraportable excellence.

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

Eye-catching, but the meagre specification and lack of features harm the Air’s prospects.

NEC’s contribution to the ultraportable market is tougher than most, but it still struggles against the competition

This Panny 'corder can shoot stills at a resolution of 4-megapixels, which makes it a match for a still camera

A light and well-built business choice, but despite the low-voltage CPU the battery life disappoints

The A700 has excellent image quality, but is let down by design quirks and the high price.

A poor performer in the face of HP’s similarly-priced, touch screen-enabled rival.

A beautiful image that comes at a terrible recommended retail price.

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

Looks and feels good, but performance is more super Aguri than Scuderia.

The poor remote and menus outweigh its other merits.

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

The Twinhead Efio is a mixed beast. It has some very good features, such as an all-magnesium casing and ATI Mobility 9700, but it also has some middling features, like a relatively slow 1.8GHz Intel processor and 4:3 screen. The unit is well made and well set out however.

The ASUS is one tough little cookie. Its cover and palmrest are encased in brushed aluminium lending the unit a reassuring sense of rigidity and roadworthiness. The 15.4" screen is bright, and its default resolution of 1680x1050 makes text sharp but a little small to read unless up close. The unit also comes with a built in TV-tuner, and also sports a TV-antenna output.

The iMac has always been a little more about style than function and the latest iteration is testament to this philosophy. The most noticeable thing about the iMac G5 is the massive 20 inch widescreen. It's a Big Mac. Geddit?

When it comes to accessories, the Aspire has one of the best bundles supplied for this roundup: including an MCE remote and a radio/TV antenna! It also has a decent specification list: 3Ghz Pentium 4; 160GB HDD; and 512MB RAM. The only sticking point here, amongst all this multimedia goodness, is the inclusion of the Mobility X300 video card. It's like building a Ferrari and installing a two-stroke motor. It doesn't make much sense.