Slick looks and astonishing battery life make this the pick of the bunch for travelers, especially for the business person on the go.

A startling achievement: a highly capable mini-laptop for under $700. Only mediocre battery life mars its appeal.

Designed to sit between the low-end Inspiron and high-end XPS families, it comes in 15in and 17in flavours and its target audience could be pretty much anyone: few laptops are as customisable as this.

More storage and a bigger screen address the main issues that arose with the original, but the price has risen too.

A much-hyped console epic comes to the PC, but unlike others that have made the move this deserves its press.

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.

A geotagging GPS that tries to do everything, but overly complicates what should be a simple task of getting from A – Z in a couple of clicks.

Gorgeous, expensive and exasperating in equal measure, and yet still desirable despite its myriad faults

This first of a new generation is only a little faster than the old, but its potential is clearly huge

Awesome skating realism with motion capture playback

Sony Ericsson impresses again with its new monster screened slider phone.

A rewritten front end makes Excel’s significant power far more accessible than before.

With new, supercharged battery life, the new iPods offer superb design and performance. But compatibility caveats remain.

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.

Dell's 6400 is a great value mid-range notebook with very few weaknesses. The support is the icing on the cake.

World's Fastest Notebook.

Not perfect, but the best all-rounder.

The Inspiron 630m is Dell’s first 14-inch widescreen notebook.

Wonderful multiplayer racing, but woeful for single-player.