Packard Bell's popularity stretches from UK across the British Channel to the Benelux countries and that's about it. Lately, we've heard many positive opinions about this brand, so it was a must to check a notebook of this kind.

The current review of the Toshiba M400 Tablet PC represents a special event for us. Thereby, this is our 100 review. You will experience like always, what the reviewed notebook really is worth - so also with the Toshiba Portege M400.

The Asus U5F is a further well equipped subnotebook with high performance and Core Duo CPU in our review. Whether this mobile computer fulfils the requirements of a portable notebook fair is the topic of this review.

Without any doubt, the Sony Vaio VGN-AR11S is a piece of jewelry according form and organization. The occurrence impressed. Also the equipment, owing to Geforce Go 7600GT and Sonys Blu Ray drive assembly work convincingly.

The Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C1410 is intended as a notebook for beginners, and is characterised by a modular pit, which can be equipped alternatively with an optical drive assembly, an additional hard disk or an additional battery.

If anyone ever doubted, that there is constant progress with mobile computers going on, after taking a glimpse of Vaio TX2 will see, how much he or she erred. Only a brief encounter with this marvel of engineering was enough for us to acclaim it a veritable laptop of the 21st century. And not only thanks to the revolutionary screen with a white LED backlight.

BenQ Joybook S61 is the first subnotebook with an integrated TV tuner. However, its most appealing feature for us was the armor with ferruling metal borders.

Lenovo 3000 V100 is one hard to define notebook. Due to its wide spectrum of features it's a bit too heavy to consider it a proper subnotebook. It's not exactly what you call an office laptop, either, considering it has a 12.1" screen only. To us this neat toddler with American roots and Chinese spirit seamed one heck of a useful device for a broad range of users.

The Sony Vaio VGN-FE21M Multimedia Notebook is to unite gaming performance owing to Intel core duo and GeForce Go 7600 with an outstanding display. Whether this is true you can read in our detailed review.

Office Notebook This stylisch notebook, equipped with an Intel Core Duo T2050 2x 1.60GHZ processor, 1024MB RAM, a 80GB hard disk and a Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 128MB (max.256MB shared memory) video card is interesting because of its small price of about 900 Euro and the good equipment. Whether it is worth the money you can read here.

The Centrino entrance notebook of Sony wants to survive in the market with a favourable price and a pleasing design despite an aged technology. Whether the work succeeded, you can read in the following review.

Subnotebook Small, smaller, Flybook. Despite or because of the 8.9" display it is very useful. The touch panel provides input friendliness. Here is the small display acrobat in a review.

Advertised as a gaming notebook, the Dell XPS M1710 with its high-resolved 17" screen, the fast Core Duo processor and GeForce Go 7900 GS must show in our test whether the promises are true.

Subnotebook It is small and slim, looks well, is first-class finished, well equipped and lightweight. Probably everyone gladly would like to have this as the second notebook at home. The Samsung Q30. Only disadvantage: the price.

At present much is discussed about display foils and coatings - no miracle, the majority of the notebooks at the market is equipped with a reflecting display. The Vikuiti display protective plastic foil ARMR200 promises to help the stressed eyes...

Multimedia notebook As a representative of the favorable middle class of multimedia notebooks, we reviewed the Acer Aspire 5672AWLMi. Thereby the "A" in the type designation refers to the Core Duo T2250, whose frontside bus only is clocked with 533 MHz instead of usual 667 MHz, but exhibits 1.73 instead of 1.66 Ghz processors.

Desktopreplacement HD capable LCD TV, DVB t tuner, Dolby Home theatre, Harman/Kardon boxes, HD DVD drive assembly and besides a gaming computer. This sounds like high end equipment of a modern living room is now realized in a laptop: in the Toshiba Qosmio G30.

Multimedianotebook Almost already as a classic one could designate the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1437G, because this notebook already is almost a year on the market. Whether Pentium M and ATI X700 today still make sense apart from multi-core processors and high performance video cards you can read in our review.

Office Notebook This time we examined and tested the Dell Inspiron 6400. As a low-priced, durable office notebook it is particularly interesting for business men but also for private users.

Multimedia notebook This time reviewed by us: the Asus A6J. It is a favorable notebook made by Asus with good features and attractive performance data. You can learn here, whether the laptop is useful apart from the good features.