Great design and build quality are coupled with a stunning nine-hour battery life, and it’s affordable too

A retrograde step from its predecessor, but a super low price makes this dinky PC very desirable

An inexpensive laptop that, when it comes to style and quality, more than punches above its weight

A very-well designed alternative to big beefy computers which make a lot of noise.

The most fully-featured notebook we’ve seen, but price will determine just how desirable this stylish notebook really is.

A flexible and powerful livingroom PC that ticks almost all the right boxes, as well as being great value.

Impressive quality, considering the bargain basement price. We're talking sub $1000 here.

Right now, this is the best bargain to be had in the notebook world.

Back in November we wondered just what you could buy for $1500 and Modtech and PC Express showed us two near identical systems (the latter being A-Listed). This month’s submission from PC Market offered few surprises.

The look of the HP Compaq NC6000_106 is pure business with its black casing and silver trim. It's also one of the heavier laptops at 2.9kg.

The Todaytech M120W, even though it's based on an OEM housing, is all style with its glossy royal blue top, and the silver surrounds on the palm rest and screen.

When it comes to notebooks, there are a few different flavours with their own specialties.  The trick to purchasing the right notebook is to know your needs and the intended purposes of the unit so you can properly match the correct machine with your requirements.

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 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?

The Twinhead Efio! 2B18 PTK gives the impression of a modern, sporty and sleek notebook. It’s powered by a Pentium 4-M processor running at 1.8GHz, and carries 384MB memory and a 40GB hard drive.

The core of SATOs SS51G is an incredibly tiny Shuttle XPC. These bare-bones boxes have been on the market for close to six months now, and have proven effective (if not over-whelming) performers and a very popular choice for building a lounge-room PC for playing music and DVD movies.

The Web Powers attempt to look futuristic, with its silver and pastel-blue colour scheme doesnt quite pay off, and it ends up looking a little tacky and cheap instead.