Top 10 laptops | T3 magazine online

Posted by T3 Online on Tue 24 Feb 2009

1. Apple MacBook
£719, www.apple.com/uk
PERFORMANCE It's expensive, but not overpriced, and the battery sets a new standard for portable computing.
LOVE Aluminium-clad überstylishness. Mac OSX
HATE Pricier than similarly specced Windows laptops
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2. ASUS G50V
£975, www.uk.asus.com
PERFORMANCE Powerful and well-specd nd oozing style it’s ideal for gamers and multimedia fans
LOVE Reasonably priced given the wealth of features and hardware spec that you get
HATE Chunky. Not full HD
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3. Sony Vaio VGN-Z11WN/b
£1,649, www.vaio.sony.uk
PERFORMANCE The 13.3-inch laptop is full of choices for the discerning buyer, including a Blu-ray drive and 128GB SSD. A 16:9 aspect ratio means viewing films on this Vaio won't be too much of a problem.
LOVE Marathon battery life and a killer, hi-def screen
HATE Design is a tad quirky. Price is a tad high
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4. Medion Akoya S5610
£500, www.medion.co.uk
PERFORMANCE A well-rounded and aptly specified machine at a great price
LOVE Amazing value. Powerful and well built
HATE Poor speakers. Average battery life
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5. Apple MacBook Air
£1,271, www.apple.com/uk
PERFORMANCE The best looking lappy on the market but severely hindered in the connectivity department.
LOVE Super-thin. Great LED-backlit screen and SSD option
HATE No DVD. No removable battery. Expensive as hell
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6. Sony VAIO P Series
£848, www.sonystyle.co.uk
PERFORMANCE Arguably the epitome of gadget heaven, the P Series lappies are gorgeous to look at, packed full of features and smaller than can be reasonably considered practical. We love ‘em.
LOVE Great looking, surprinsingly powerful, excellent XMB quick-start
HATE Poor battery, lack of trackpad and presence of Vista
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7. ASUS M70
£1,599, www.uk.asus.com
PERFORMANCE A far cry from the Eee range, the M70 is huge, powerful as a race horse, loaded with Dolby Theatre, Blu-ray player, digital TV tuner and 1TB to store even more entertainment media. It practically needs its own generator though.
LOVE Huge storage, awesome power, HDMI output
HATE Drains too much power for the feeble battery, weak gaming performance
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8. Alienware Area-51 m15x
£954, www.alienware.co.uk
PERFORMANCE Alienware’s gaming prowess borders on legendary and it’s laptop are no exception. Stunning playing power from a portable device, although the looks are an *ahem* acquired taste.
LOVE Wicked graphics, processing punch
HATE Pricey and oddly short on storage
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9. Rock Xtreme 780
£1,465, www.rockdirect.com
PERFORMANCE The etched aluminium finish looks amazing and there’s plenty of gaming. You’ll also find a decent mobile GPU and Blu-ray player on board, but the power just falls short of Alienware rivals. Mind you, so does the price.
LOVE Detailed screen, 7.1 surround sound output
HATE Skinny hard drive
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10. Acer Ferrari 1100
£1,200 www.acer.co.uk
PERFORMANCE Fast, light and smooth – this little Acer is earning it’s Ferrari branding. But far from being lightened for extra streamlining, this baby is packed full of neat extra like 802.11n WiFi, Dolby audio and 4GB of memory.
LOVE Ferrari logo, superb stylings
HATE Piss poor battery, paying for a name
SPECS AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66 2.3GHz, ATI Radeon X1270, 4GB, 12.1”, 2kg, 250GB HDD
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By ark2020

20|01|2010 10:04

What about the Dell Latitude XT and XT2.

Really good tablets. Core 2 Duo, 4gb Ram, Multitouch, Windows 7, capacitive screen, 3 hour battery life.

I have had my XT for 16 months and it has never crashed, or frozen or decided to not work.

I take notes in university lectures and company meetings on the capacitive touch screen which comes with a stylus. I read books using the amazon kindle software.

I no longer buy textbooks, I download them, and annotate directly onto them.

Alot of computing power, alot of battery power, the only downside is the price.

£1400.00, which is quite expensive for a computer, but it has completely replaced my desktop, and completely revolutionised the way that I take and store notes.

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