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

Awesome power and features at a Reasonable price – but keep it plugged in.

Well built, fast and with a great screen, the Dell also has superb battery life.

Blu-Ray notebooks are the next battleground, and the good news is they're slowly getting cheaper. ASUS is staking a claim with this monstrously powerful behemoth.

If you’re looking for a well-featured, great-value desktop replacement, the A7S fits the bill. Plenty of grunt, a 200GB drive and great features - Asus is looking better and better.

If you want a monstrously powerful laptop, look no further.

A decent multimedia notebook, but it’s not exciting enough for the price.

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

A powerful and feature-packed notebook. But it can’t match the quality of Dell’s XPS M1710.

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

Solidly built and packed with features, HP's flagship nx9420 is a very good notebook.

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

World's Fastest Notebook.

Not perfect, but the best all-rounder.

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

We dubbed the ASUS ‘The Black Box’ because, like its aeronautical namesake, it records everything.

The Pioneer DreamBook Power 900 is a locally built monster – this isn’t a desktop replacement, it’s a desk.

Alienware are fairly new to Australian shores, but for any PC-addict it's been hard to avoid their familiar little-green-men styling on the internet where Alienware cases are extremely popular among case-modding and PC-styling communities. They're finally here now, and the Area-51m 7700 is the first product through the PC Authority Labs doors.

The D900T has to be one the most impressively kitted out notebooks we've ever reviewed. Now, before you go running off with a fist full of readies, this notebook isn't available as such to the general public. Rather, resellers of Todaytech's notebooks can order them in whatever configuration you want. Or if you'd rather -- and we quite like this option -- you can order the notebook stripped of most options, and configure your own from spare parts or cheaper parts if you think you can do better on pricing.

If you're after an ultra portable, this isn't the notebook for you. If you're after a large form factored portable desktop replacement, this could be the ticket. This behemoth of a notebook features a 17-inch widescreen display and a footprint to match.