Quadratic. Handy. Good? The Samsung X60 attracts by its angular and slim design. Especially the magnesium case impresses. What about the rest of the properties of this multimedia notebook? We take a close look at this elegant 15.4 notebook.

BIG Business. Sure, you are familiar with the following problem: You start lots of applications, among them possibly a graphical application with lots of toolboxes and the display gets so filled, that a clear view gets completely lost. This problem can be either resolved by an external monitor or by a HP Compaq nw9440 with powerful graphics and high-resolution, non-reflecting 17 inch display.

Satellite a half. The Satellite U200 is a high-quality and beautiful 12.1 inch subnotebook, which is willing to accompany its user everywhere and convinces through robustness (magnesium case) and its very low weight of only 1.9kg . In oder to increase the data security the notebook is equipped with a shock save hard disk and a fingerprint reader.

White Christmas? Yes - for all those who obtain the Sony Vaio VGN-N11M office notebook. Sony's white beginner's notebook among Dualcore notebooks has to prove its technical qualities in the following reviews.

Workaholic. The Alienware S-4 m5550 is a powerful notebook - No, actually the notebook with the highest performance, which passed our reviews so far. How does this work? Core 2 Duo T7600 2.3 GHz, 2GB RAM Dualchannel and a 80GB 7200 revs Hdd. On the contrary, only the Geforce 7600 seems to be a little old.

Economist. The Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V8210 Office Notebook demonstrates that not all business notebooks need to be exorbitant. So, also private user can afford robust workmanship and comprehensive configurations of a business notebook.

Executive Assistant. Hewlett-Packard Compaq nc8430 is a high-performance business notebook, which has besides calculation power also graphical power, because of its ATI X1600 video card. A non-reflecting display, first class input devices and a fingerprint reader complete the offer.

Small but powerful. Small, light, yet powerful, these attributes go best with Asus A8Jp. More and more user choose very mobile notebooks, but still they won't forego computational and graphical power. This is Asus' solution: A8Jp.

Business light. The Satellite Pro A100 series cover Toshibas Business beginner's notebooks. The durable notebook with good equipment and even a X1600 video card of ATI is available at a reasonable price. This makes the notebooks besides for business customers also interesting for private users.

A wolf in sheep's clothing. After Apple changed the processors of its notebooks to Intel CPUs, in more detail to Core Duo processors, their elegant white notebooks are also offered with Core 2 Duo CPUs. The 13“ MacBook became a muscle men wearing a ballet dress.

Watch out 17 inch WUXGA Display, maximum resolution 1920x1200 Pixel, AMD Turion 64 ML-44 CPU 2.4 GHz, 2x NVIDIA Geforce 7900GS SLI with a total of 1GB VRAM, 160GB hard disk 7200 revs - prepared for second hard disk, 2 GB RAM; Still not enough? - You can read more here.

Bargain hunters. Most might not believe it, but Dell also offers very reasonable beginner's notebooks. E.g. the Dell Inspiron 1501. The start price of 649 Euro for a proper configuration is clearly below the 1000 Euro threshold.

Entry-level entertainer. Sleek and elegant looking, but is it any good? We've taken a closer eye to Hewlett-Packard's multimedia notebook, which is breaking records of popularity in our country. Is it the power of advertising that is responsible for its good sales or are its virtues irresistible? We've tried to discover the truth.

Couch potato.If in the office, or in the bed room or away, the personal multimedia center is always present as Toshiba Qosmio F30. It is equipped with an analog/digital TV tuner and excellent Harman/Kardon speakers and provides one with the pleasure of location-independent TV and HiFi.

GAMER'S DARLING. Dell XPS is quasi a synonym for high-performance multimedia notebooks. It is very interesting, that there is also a 12 inch notebook available, that is Dell's XPS M1210 with Core 2 Duo CPU and a Geforce 7400 video card, which is suitable for games.

Mirror, Mirror… Notebooks of the VGN-FE31 are presumably Sony's most sold notebooks. As a representative, you can loot at a review of the FE31B with Core 2 Duo CPU and Geforce 7400 video card here.

CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE. Sony's C1 series are a series of fancy 13.3 inch subnotebooks. The user can select its favorite out of a variety of designs. We reviewed "Pretty in Pink".

The Asus A8JS is equipped with a high-resolution 14'' display. Thanks to a Core 2 Duo processor and a GeForce Go 7700 is provides high-performance in a small space. Our forum user Ompaa conducted the following review.

If you were pleased by the Asus F3Jm, but preferred a 17 inch notebook, the Asus A7Jc could be the right choose for you. As usual for a DTR, Asus A7Jc is equipped with a variety of ports.

Asus F3Jm too belongs to the 15.4'' multimedia class and is therefore a direct competitor of Toshiba A100-979. It is equipped with a Core 2 Duo CPU and a Geforce 7600 with 512 MB video memory.

A while ago, we already had the joy to review the Satellite A100-153 notebook, which was equipped with a Core Duo CPU, which was brand new at that time. The compact and esthetically pleasing successor, Satellite A100-979, is equipped with a Core 2 Duo processor and a Geforce 7600 video card.

XPS is not the only notebook by Dell, which is excellent, when used with hard multimedia applications. Inspiron 9400 is an excellent notebook for gamers too. A Core 2 Duo CPU and a Geforce 7900GS video card ensure best performance.

Toshiba P100-194 is a multimedia giant. Equipped with striking hardware, it appeals gamers and film enthusiasts. In my following review I used a different strategy compared to the pattern used in the other reviews. I consider this "review" as the story of my personal experiences, which I wrote down during the last days rather than an actual test report.

Tablet PCs are an elite in the kingdom of mobile computers. Asus R1F is one of the most smart (and by that we don’t only mean looks) among those. Its advantages and shortcomings are gathered in the following review.