Tommy Melville

Asus and Bang & Olufsen join forces for this new laptop

HP has gone another route with the HP Beats Edition, and employed the help and expertise of legendary hip hop producer Dr Dre and his Beats brand, that manufacturers high-end headphones.

A strong all-round laptop with a great build and plenty of useful features

A great laptop which manages to offer a solid mix of power and portability

A highly affordable machine, but despite decent usability it fails to impress

A laptop with excellent build quality, but limited portability

A compact and well-built laptop, but hampered by poor office performance

Great performance for the price and some highly useful features

Ample performance and strong build quality from this desktop replacement

Not only a great gaming rig, but one of the first to offer a decent dedicated speaker system and a number of innovative features

3D finally achieves gaming credibility, and looks set for the long haul.

A very solid laptop that makes a good option for all the family

A 17.3-inch laptop that is a great option as a desktop replacement machine

A comfortable enough budget laptop to use, but power and portability are lacking

A very moderately priced machine, but one that does have its flaws

Lenovo's latest laptop targets the consumer with very pleasing results

A great option for those after an entry-level multimedia laptop

Can the Taiwanese manufacturer make play in the gaming market?

Great usability as always from Sony – if only this laptop were stronger graphically

A great machine and the only laptop here to provide an Intel Core i7 CPU

A very competitively priced laptop that boasts real power and great usability

A budget laptop, but a slightly under-specified machine for the price

Power may be a little lacking, but the fantastic battery life certainly isn't