Hello, and good bye again. Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs were slowly finding their way into new notebooks. Among others, Acer's Aspire 5750G, a multimedia all-rounder with a 2630QM quad core and Nvidia GT540M. Beyond that, Nvidia Optimus provides a quiet office use and good battery runtimes. However, we will likely have to wait for a while until the laptop is available in retail.

Mobile gaming. Mobile gaming. Performance like a DTR, yet battery life like a subnotebook. Sandy Bridge bans the waste of energy, calculates for eight machines and engages a 99 Wh battery for support. However, the HD 6850M has to strike sail in the game check.

Workhorse. Dell's mobile workstation, Precision M4500, should especially satisfy high performance requirements and faces a simply unbeatable opponent. We've checked how well Core i7-940XM, Nvidia Quadro FX 1800M and FullHD support our test candidate.

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. At first sight Clevo's P170HM Barebone might seem quite plain, but within you'll find genuine high-end hardware. An Intel CPU from the new Sandy Bridge line and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 470M GPU should get gamers' saliva flowing.

Flash-giant meets color-collosus. The Z13 has four SSD-memories on board, together with 256 GB of capacity. In the Raid 0, these ensure for flow-rates which would have rotating harddrives flying the white flag of surrender. Furthermore, the impressive color space of the built-in display almost brings tears to our eyes.

Solid business. The Latitute E4310 in Dell's array is a compact 13.3 inch business subnotebook that is supposed to convince with fast hardware, balanced ergonomics and security features. A 3 cell battery seems to be out of place, though. Is it nevertheless an alternative to the larger Dell Latitude E6410?

The Apple TV Box, now in its second generation, has been transformed into a pure media streaming box. It is now based on the latest iPod and iPad hardware, giving it a very low energy consumption and small size. Thanks to AirPlay and the box’s reasonable price, Apple TV certainly seems like an attractive option.