Laptops > From 17" to 19" Laptops > From 800 GBP to 1200 GBP

Advantages: Fast, High End Gaming, looks great
Disadvantages: Expensive

I have owned the XPS for a year now, If you're a hard-core gamer looking to play the newest games at the highest settings, this is one of the best systems on the shelves at the moment. I spend quite a lot of the time on the move due to my job, I enjoy playing games but what use would a Desktop PC sat at home be while I'm hardly ever there? Then I came across the XPS M1710, which buying on line allows you to setup your own specifications before purchasing. ...
...like I am, you will be willing to put this on your shopping list, but I must admit at the time of entering my bank number for the purchase, I did cringe a little but now I've had it a while and have enjoyed my gaming through this technical wonder, I haven't looked back! Now let's see what makes this what it is. Underneath this stylish bonnet lies an Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 CPU running 2.33Ghz and with a maximum choice of 4GB RAM which is impressive ... Read review

Advantages: Blu-ray, large screen, high spec
Disadvantages: processor a bit behind the rest of its high spec gizmos

The Sony Vaio a business laptop, not this one. Even thought sony would make a laptop for your home use, shur the business ones were great and good to use at home, but this one goes the other way round its great at home and good for business, though not as portable with a 17" screen so for a business i wouldn't recommend, but still good. It seems Vaio have started to make good laptops for the home as well as leading the way in business laptops. This ...
...pretty fast and 2 GB of ram which is excelent for your mulitimedia uses. 400GB or storage! superb for storing movies and songs, and a gig or video memory again superb for movies meaning more frames per second are played and of better quality. At £1000 you may feel it's out of budget, but it has a blu-ray player, which will cost in excess of £300 it will play your blu-ray DVD's on its 17" screen HD compatible ofcorse, and the sound on the laptop ... Read review

Advantages: 17" Screen, Awesome Specs and a built in webcam
Disadvantages: Too much bundled software and it's also quite heavy.

...Software- 9/10 As usual Sony has bundled a lot of software with the AR51E including Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Premiere Elements and VAIO Camera Capture Utility, so you can capture videos and images using your built in webcam. The downside of this is that a lot of the software won't be used and in all it takes up about 12GB of your harddrive. The OS of this laptop is Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium. Portability- 7/10 As far as ...
...the VAIO is weighed down by it's 17" screen. Value- 8.5/10 At around £900 new these laptops aren't cheap, but for such a high spec laptop and the fact that it's made by a top brand like Sony, I think it's worth the money. Overall- 9.5/10 The Vaio AR51E may not be cheap, but it's a truly awesome laptop, with a 200GB HDD, 2GBRAM and Dual Core Processor, as well as the 17" screen the VAIO makes for optimum computing, while its not the type ... Read review

Advantages: very good looking, fast and lots of brilliant features
Disadvantages: Poor battery life and quite big.

This is an unbelievably fast and very good looking laptop. The finish on it is very nice and the shape of it looks good from any angle. Another great thing about this is the 320GB hard drive because you can store so much on there wothout having to worry too much about it becoming too full. The other features you get with this laptop are brilliant. For example the webcam records very clear videos considering the size of it, the TV tuner is also very ...
...TV, and the best thing out of all of the extra things that you get with it is the LightScribe technology in the DVD drive which burns designs and text into the top of the disc. Unfortunately you do need to buy special discs for this but they aren't that much expensive. At first I expected the quality of the designs it burnt into the top to be very grainy but it's very good quality. One bad thing about this is the size and weight of it but then on ... Read review

Advantages: Price, Performance, Style, Fast, Updated, Many Features, Sleek, Light, Great speakers, Great disk storage
Disadvantages: Battery Life, Not the best for gaming, Vista slows processing speed

...an external hard drive anyways. The display is very bright and clear, and the laptop is very stylish with its dark blue cover and bold Toshiba logo. I would seriously suggest this laptop to anyone in the market for a new computer but without a lot of money to spend. ... Read review