Danish Express. These days Zepto entices customers by a big price reduction for its Znote 3415W 'Power'. Besides a Penryn-CPU T9500 and a huge RAM capacity of 4GB also the mass storage capacity is big. The 200 GB hard disk runs at a revolution speed of 7,200 rpm, and a GeForce 8600M GT ensures high performance graphics. All aboard!

Mobile Business. Dell's Vostro series offers robust business qualities for a fair price and thus becomes interesting for customers who value a stable and durable product. The Dell Vostro 1310 impresses mainly with it's good mobility, which it achieves with a compact case, long battery life, and an outdoor capable display.

14 inch Notebook More compact and lighter than a 15.4 inch notebook, this 14.1 inch notebook by the Danish manufacturer Zepto has not only a handy in-between size but is also potent multimedia computer. We reviewed this handy notebook with Core 2 Duo T7250, Geforce 8400M GS, and 250 GB hard disk. This review covers how it rates.

Beginner. The Lenovo 3000 N200 should be a 15.4 inch notebook with good workmanship, belonging to the beginner category, which especially attracts price-conscious customers. It raises the level of the office category, by being equipped with a dual core processor, 160 GB hard disk, Bluetooth, fingerprint reader, and web cam and by being offered at a great price of below 600 Euro.

Low cost worker. The HP Compaq 6720s offers a good base for daily work at the office or at home for little money. Due to modern dual-core technology made by Intel it is also able to complete extensive tasks quickly.

Professional Traveler. They are in fashion although they have almost nothing to do with the currently highly favored Netbooks – the ultra mobile office laptops. These laptops offer a combination of light weight, compact dimensions, a good battery life and extensive communication features. Models of Dell, in this league, include for example the Latitude E4300 with a display of 13.3 inches and a total weight of 1850 grams.

After the introduction of the new Penryn processors, also Apple updates its MacBook and MacBook Pro series with these new 45nm Core 2 Duo processors. This article covers how the new top MacBook Pro notebook with 2.5 GHz processors differs from its predecessor.

Hand luggage. The 12.1" small and 2 kilogram light Acer Aspire 2920 is an attractive choice for home users, who are looking for a subnotebook with fully-fledged equipment and performance. Additionally, the 2920 offers plenty of space to store data and an excellent WXGA display.

Fully Loaded. The TravelMate 6592 is designed for businessmen who look for a powerful notebook equipped with many accessories and features. Besides brand new Intel Centrino PRO Mobile technology, the TravelMate 6592G also offers safety features, like fingerprint reader, TPM, a lot of interfaces, and a long battery life.

The empire strikes back. Alienware announced a compact high performance notebook a long time ago. But although it was already available in the USA for quite a while, it is just now finally coming to Europe. The Area-51 m15x notebook makes Alienware the first producer that offers a 15" gaming notebook with a 8800 GTX graphics card and Intel Core 2 extreme processor. This is also the current maximum of what's possible in the compact multimedia class.

Object of desire... Advertising the Asus U6S one word dominates – luxury. The piano finish as well as the great equipment including LED display, Penryn CPU, and GeForce 9300M, emphasize luxury. Even at the first glance the 12 inch Asus U6F looks luxurious. The same is true for the price of this 12 inch notebook, which is at least 1.799,- Euro.

G2 gaming update. Since the launch of the Asus G2 after the Cebit 2007 it has been offered in various configurations to keep it competitive. The current version of the gaming notebook in 17" format, called G2SG, comes with a new Penryn processor and a Geforce 8700M GT graphics card made by nVIDIA with 512MB GDDR3 video memory.

The New Middle-Class. Nearly all details were changed with the introduction of the new compact multimedia notebooks by Acer. Packed in a new distinctive Gemstone Blue design, equipped with a 16 inch 16:9 aspect ratio display, and up-to-date hardware, it should, according to Acer, stand as a reference for 'ultimate entertainment'. Therefore, it is furthermore equipped with a Blu-Ray drive and a Dolby certified sound system.

Straight Business. The HP Compaq 6715s appears to be a reasonable office notebook without ornaments designed for daily office work. Despite its low price, this 15.4 inch notebook with AMD technology convinces by good workmanship, ergonomics, and quality of the input devices. But, the interfaces equipment covers only the minimum requirements.

High-Fi Anlage zum Mitnehmen Multimedia all-rounder The HP Pavilion HDX 9130 EG is very attractive in several aspects. It's glossy case in dragon-design hints for a lot more features to come. Equipped with an Intel core 2 Duo processor and an ATI HD2600XT graphics card, it is a high performance multimedia all-rounder, ready to do a variety of tasks. We think this is a great thing, if only it wasn't so heavy.

(Office Power)². The HP Compaq 8710 series is especially designed for graphics and CAD professionals. Being equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 CPU with 2.6 GHz and a nVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M graphics card, the 8710w notebook is thereby today's most powerful notebook of this series. Furthermore, the 17 inch WUXGA display ensures due to a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels maximum clarity.

Multimedia all-rounder. A lot has changed on the notebook market since the appearance of the new graphics card series by nVIDIA. Various producers already started to sell models with the new Penryn processors and the new graphics chips. One of these notebooks is the Asus M51SN with Core 2 Duo T8300 processor and a Geforce 9500M GS graphics card.

Upside Down. Although convertible notebooks like the Dell Latitude XT, which support being operated either as tablet PC or as standard notebook are still rare, they gain more and more market share, because of new technologies and increasing possible field of application. The Dell Latitude XT demonstrates how a good convertible PC should be.

Nice looking single core notebook The Acer Extensa 5220 (-100508) is an appealing office notebook equipped with a single core processor, which is available at a small price. It is suited to those who wish to have a reasonable second notebook or a cheap desktop replacement for browsing the Internet and all office work. Equipment, display, and workmanship or top, if you consider the price category.

14.1 inch - High Mobility The Esprimo Mobile M9400 tries to attract businessmen by a 14.1 inch display, integrated UMTS modem, and a weight of about 2.2 kg. This review uncovers whether this office notebook is able to hold a candle to the professional Lifebooks by Fujitsu Siemens.

Multimedia Notebook with powerful Penryn-CPU The Znote 6625WD launched by the Danish computer company Zepto, is a powerful general-purpose multimedia notebook, which belongs to the category of 15.4 inch multimedia notebooks fit for computer games. The advantages of this Scandinavian are, besides a powerful Penryn-CPU T9500, a fast Geforce 8600M GT notebook video card, and the brilliant WSXGA+ display.

Mobile Gaming Notebook. The Asus F8SN is a powerful 14" notebook with GeForce 9500M GS video card and Core 2 Duo T9300 "Penryn" processor. This review uncovers among others the disadvantages of this powerful equipment inside a small case.

DTR Entry-level solution. The Acer Aspire 7720 series's case has a gemstone design, which is already well-known. It is equipped with a 17 inch WXGA+ display which provides a good desktop size for multimedia applications. The G in the name hints on a dedicated video card, whereas the reviewed notebook was equipped with a Geforce 8400M GS by nVIDIA. Combined with a Dual Core CPU the Aspire 7720, which belongs to the 17 inch notebook category, is a bundle especially interesting for starter.

Double Core. The XPS M1730 is now also available with two GeForce 8800M GTX SLI video cards for a surcharge of 490,- respectively 780,- Euro. Hence, Dell upgrades its signature gaming notebook with the newest and at the time of writing fastest video technology. This review uncovers, how these new video cards impact on performance and emissions and whether they are worth the surcharge.

More than just Office. The Dell Insprion 1525 scores not only points in typical aspects important for office notebooks, but also regarding a number of multimedia features. Besides a good workmanship, an user-friendly keyboard and a clear design, it also offers, e.g., an up-to-date HMDI port. Inside a Dual Core processor by Intel and two GB RAM ensure sufficient performance.

First Class Travelling. The Portégé R500 can be called a prototype of Toshiba's product range. Not only the very interesting equipment - Core 2 Duo U7700 CPU, transreflective LED display, 64 Gigabyte solid state disk, and 3G/UMTS module - hints on this. Furthermore, it is only 810g (!!) light and costs as much as 2,500.- Euro.

Heavy Worker. The Precision series by Dell was especially designed for professionals working with CAD applications and visualizations and demanding high video performance, reliability, and good support. The M6300 is a robust desktop replacement computer in 17 inch format. Various configuration options make it possible to turn it into a high-performance workstation.

Business dwarf with endurance. Optical drives and proper energy supply are usually the victims in the battle for the smallest subnotebook. Fujitsu-Siemens tackles exactly this problem, and offers with the Lifebook P7230 an ultra mobile 10.6 inch subnotebook with extensive communication-features and a DVD burner that can be replaced with an optional additional battery.

Want to possess it? Today's thinnest notebook is small enough to fit into an envelope and pleases by its decent design and the high-quality materials used. This review describes, whether this bundle is able to convince despite its minimum interface equipment.

Compact Gaming by Zepto. Some manufactures consider a Geforce 8600M GT video card only for notebooks which are at least 17 inch big. Zepto is completely different. Inside the 14 inch 6324W notebook there is a powerful 8600M GT video card by nVIDIA and also a brand new 2.5 GHz Penryn CPU by Intel.

Road Warrior. The Dell Latitude D430 proves to be an exemplary companion in our review. The up to now smallest notebook of the Latitude series is quiet, compact, light, and its workmanship is good. The runtime of the small 42 Wh battery is due to special energy-saving components up to 6 hours. Despite being equipped with low-energy components, the frugal Core 2 Duo processor with 1.2 GHz clock rate combined with very fast SSD hard disk is sufficiently powerful for daily business.

Family PC According to Asus this small and reasonable notebook is a notebook for the whole family. Here you can read how it performed in our technical tests and whether it is able to actually replace the classical PC.

Small, undemanding, but, powerful. This would be a suitable short description of the new mobile Penryn CPU by Intel. The main advantages of the new processor besides switching to 45nm production, which allowed a dramatically higher number of transistors, are a larger L2-cache and improved energy saving functions.

Quiet office notebook.The Samsung R60-Aura T2330 Deesan is a reasonable and quiet office notebook for starters without unnecessary details. The price performance ratio is alright. The R60-Aura is a robust notebook with bright display, low noise, and normal temperature increase. Furthermore, overall the performance of the R60-Aura is easily sufficient for office work.