Top Ten Laptops Reviewed

SONY VAIO SZ...............Best Balance Between Portability & Usability
Sony managed to create a laptop that has a perfect balance of portability without sacrificing a readable screen or a very user-friendly keyboard. In addition the VAIO SZ features all the components, which a business requires, from a Web cam for videoconferencing to an integrated microphone to a fingerprint scanner for security. On top of all this you get an Intel Core Duo processor and a NVIDIA graphics card.

LENOVO ThinkPad X60s......Best ultra business portable
Best features are built in WWAN connectivity and the latest Intel Core Duo processor. Includes the fantastic ThinkPad keyboard, which makes this notebook a better choice if comfortable typing is more important than watching DVD's. This laptop does not have a built -in optical drive and yet it still brings a best-in-class balance of performance, battery life,portability and comfort.

GATEWAY NC100X......Best Budget Model & Ultra Portable Design
The "poor mans" dream notebook delivers a sleek look with brushed aluminum details and dark blue status lights. With a low bottom line the NX100X costs significantly less than competitors models. The sacrifices for a lower price is of course minimal features including the lack of a built-in optical drive. But if you need a very portable and stylish economic notebook the Gateway NX100X is for you.

HP COMPAQ PRESARIO V500 Z......Most Affordable Laptop
One of the cheapest priced based model laptops available that does not compromise quality. Ideal all-around laptop for a student or home user who needs good performance and a fair set of basic features which includes, a LightScribe double layer optical drive and a multi-format media-card reader.

DELL XPS M1710..............Best Gaming Notebook
For the serious gamer, Dell still remains the leader in laptop gaming units. 17-inch wide screen, Intel Core platform and NVIDIA's new top shelf GEForce Go 7900 GTX GRPU video card are the star features of the XPS M1710. While this is a high price system it is the best of the best for the serious gamers.

PANASONIC TOUGHBOOK 74....Best Notebook for the Klutzy Klutz
Designed to be abused this laptop can withstand lots and lots of abuse. With drops, bangs and spills it keeps running. The ToughBook 74 used military-grade laptop design principals and incorporated them into a consumer-friendly "rough and tough" model that is built for abuse.

SONY VAIO UX...................Best Micro Tablet
This tiny unit has a 4.5-inch (diagonal) wide-screen display that slides up to reveal a QWERTY keypad. Even though it's small the UX runs on a full-fledged laptop CPU, a full version of Windows XP and a touch-screen interface. Weighing only 1.2 pounds this laptop has a 1024x600 resolution display and comes with modest components and lots of network connections. Considering its tiny size it is amazing that Sony managed to add two cameras, a biometric fingerprint scanner, mic jacks and headphone, USB port and Memory Stick slot.

APPPLE MACBOOK PRO...............Best Laptop Design
Apple hasn't radically redesigned the PowerBook factor with this model and thank goodness for that. This MacBook is sleek in aluminum, wider, thinner and lighter that the 15-inch PowerBook making a successful compromise between portable and usable. Top attributes include unparalleled style and solid set of features and software. Only a few transitional performance issues keep this laptop from rivaling the most powerful of laptops.

DELL XPS M2010...........Best Notebook That's Not One
The perfect combination of the in between of desktop and notebook designs this piece features a foldout 20-inch screen, detachable Bluetooth keyboard, top set of components and most of the features of a modern Media Center PC, including a great sound system, a pop-up slot-loading DVD player, and integrated video camera and microphone for videoconferencing. Impressive in style and performance and definitely not cheap.