Are excellent media credentials and a great price enough to ignore a couple of minor flaws?

We feel the Toshiba Satellite P850 works best as a light entertainment machine, and proves there's more to a laptop than simply which processor it's bundled with.

The HP Pavilion g6-1331ea is a low-cost laptop with extraordinary power that tears up the rulebook in what can be achieved on a tight budget.

The centrepiece of the Asus K53S is the impressive Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU that blew through our benchmarking tests with ease.

The new 2012 MacBook Air boasts the same classic design, but with significantly improved hardware.

The Advent Monza is a budget laptop with a super-low price tag and healthy pound-for-pound tech specs. Unfortunately, it doesn't manage to match its rivals for power or performance.

The Acer Aspire V3-571 is an excellent all-rounder, which marries top performance, decent build quality and a vibrant screen.

Dell has launched two bigger brothers for the XPS 13 - here's the first of them, the rather fine XPS 14 Ultrabook.

In the same month that Alienware unleashed the Ivy Bridge powered M17x, MSI has declared its 17-inch gaming contender - the MSI GT70.

As a home entertainment desktop replacement, the Samsung Series 5 550P succeeds on almost every level.

The Toshiba Satellite P875- 102 signals the arrival of third generation Intel Core power at the company and we have to admit that it's off to a flying start.

Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display reinvents the high-end notebook, but can it justify the asking price and lack of upgrades?

Alienware is back with a bang. Along with the M14x and the M18x, the Alienware M17x has had an Intel Ivy Bridge refresh for 2012.

Despite its continued efforts in the consumer market, Dell is still a box-shifter at heart and has refreshed its entire line of Latitude laptops.

The Medion Erazer range has been gaining ground in the minds of gamers. Even if you're not an avid Skyrim fan there's still plenty to be had from the 17-inch model, the Medion Erazer X7815.

Lenovo's B570 comes in a range of incarnations. The budget model sports stripped-down components, but retains the great keyboard and solid build quality of the pricier models.

The Fujitsu Lifebook AH531 is a perfectly capable machine that will offer basic users the experience they're looking for at a bargain price.

If you've turned your back on netbooks in favour of tablets and smartphones, you're making a serious oversight. Netbooks have some life left in them yet and the 1025C aims to prove it.

Dell has a solid reputation when it comes to business laptops, and the Dell Vostro 3555 is a good indicator as to why.

Panasonic Toughbook's have long been the poster child for rugged laptops and the CF-19 is another impressive model.

Beneath the stylish exterior of the N56V, there lies a sleeping beast; a beast with a roar louder than any others that lay before it.

Updated Google and Samsung team up for the next generation of Chrome OS, but have the problems of the past been solved?

There's little to dislike on this laptop. The red body looks great, its Intel Core i7-2670QM processor is capable and it's well-priced.

The Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2F7 is what you'd expect from a low priced laptop. But inside there's a Sandy Bridge processor and more.

A highly portable, Intel-powered laptop - isn't that an Ultrabook? Well not in the case of the Pavilion m6.