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.

IBM Global Financing Australia has launched a certified used equipment service which will sell refurbished off-lease equipment online and through its distributor and dealer channels.

This notebook was designed from the ground up with business and security in mind, and it succeeds.

Can’t decide between an Eee and a Wind? A Mini note or an Aspire One? Believe it or not, there’s a bunch of old school smaller laptops that may do the job for less money. We took a look at 7 old school ultraportables.

What can a vendor-controlled comparison of notebook technology teach us? Plenty – but not in the way it was intended. Read on as we expose HP’s notebook ‘Reliability Challenge’.

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

Well built and with astonishing battery life to boot. It’s pricey but decent value.

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

Not a stylish machine, but it’s good value, well built and boasts surprisingly impressive battery life

Like Volvos of old, Lenovo was a solid, reliable and unexciting name. Up until now. The business-masters have turned out a very desirable, stylish and powerful laptop.

The Holy Grail of personal computing miniaturisation has to be the wristwatch PC. You might imagine that this was always doomed to be a typical example of form fighting function, and for a long time t

When it comes to desktop replacements, the Dell Inspiron 5000 is a case study in portable power.

There is a full keyboard with a trackpoint as the built-in pointing device and a generous palm rest.

Intel's new Centrino is possibly the most hyped notebook technology ever launched. Centrino is the name for a group of Intel's technologies including a tweaked P3-M CPU, built-in wireless, and excellent battery life.