Whether you’re a student, business professional, hardcore PC gamer, or anyone else in between, you have a deep appreciation for a good laptop—and so do we. The laptop is constantly evolving—getting slimmer and smaller, boasting more power, and appearing in various styles, designs and colors—and we love them all, but we do have our favorites of the bunch.
Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch)
Macs aren’t for everyone, but for those of you who adore Apple’s products the new MacBook Pros are sturdy and stylish machines. This 15-inch MacBook Pro has a Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 512MB, and a 15.4-inch wide-screen display offers a 1,440×900 native resolution. It’s a Mac, so of course it’s rather pricey—this notebook is has a starting price of $1,699.
Sony Vaio CW Series
This Sony laptop may be a little bit bulky, but what it lacks in sleek dimensions it makes up for with a low price point, a bunch of great features and a whole lot of power. We were pretty impressed with the Sony Vaio CW for its solid build, crisp 14.1-inch LED-backlit screen, its 250GB hard drive (upgradeable to 500GB) and its 2GB of RAM (upgradeable to 8GB). This Vaio is a practical, affordable and—dare we say—stylish buy.
HP ProBook 5310m
We like to think of this HP laptop as “business casual.” It’s a sturdy machine, packing a bounty of coveted features, and its price starts as low as $699. This stylish notebook, with its thin and sleek 13.3-inch diagonal LED-backlit display and Windows 7 Professional 32-bit option, is ideal for any business professional.
Toshiba Qosmio X505 (Q850)
This 18-inch monster PC laptop takes the gaming laptop win for 2009. This laptop combines a powerful 2.8-GHz Intel Core i7-720QM CPU with an Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M graphics card, and also features 6GB of DDR3 RAM and dual storage drives, one of which is a high-speed 64GB SSD. Warning, this 10.4 pound colossus has a heavy price tag as well.
Lenovo ThinkPad T400s
This stylish and light notebook weighs only 3.9 pounds and is a very capable machine for any professional. This Lenovo ThinkPad series is great for business or casual use and features 2.53-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, a 14.1 inch display with1440 x 900 resolution, and an extremely durable design.
Asus UL30A
If the Dell Adamo and MacBook Air are out of your price range, check out this lightweight Asus laptop as a pocketbook-friendly alternative. Weighing only 3.9 pounds, this Asus laptop sports a 4GB memory, a 1.3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a glossy 13.3-inch LED screen, a great battery life and a price tag starting at $650.
Dell Studio 14z
Forget the MacBook, this 14-inch Dell has the size, the style, and more boast-worthy features—and it won’t cost you your rent money. The Dell Studio 14z only weighs 4.4 pounds and features Nvidia 9400 graphics for extra multimedia perks, a 2.1-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 processor, and is ideal for streaming content and playing digital files. The Dell Studio 14z starts at about $750.
Alienware M17x
This powerful PC laptop is great for gaming and good for just about everything else. Talk about a laptop loaded with features: this Alienware notebook sports Intel’s top-of-the-line Core2 Extreme Quad QX9300 processor, which is composed of a quartet of cores running at 2.53GHz with a 12MB cache and 1066MHz front-side bus. It also had a couple of SLI-enabled NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M cards each with 1GB of dedicated video memory, as well as 8GB of all-purpose DDR3 RAM running at 1333MHz. Try say all that five times fast.
Dell Adamo
This sleek and slim laptop gives a great performance—as ultra thins go—and is available in two configurations. The pricier edition, at $2,699, sports a low-power 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, four gigs of dual-channel DDR3 memory, and a 128 GB solid-state drive. The cheaper one, priced at $1,999, RAM and storage are both halved (ending up at 2 GB and 64 GB, respectively), and processor speed is bumped down to 1.2 GHz.
Toshiba Satellite T135-S1310
This Toshiba Satellite is another powerful yet slim laptop, and it’s decently priced. It’s recommended to purchase the dual-core one, rather than the single-core—get a little more bang for your buck. The Toshiba Satellite T135-S1310 comes preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Premium and has a superb battery life.
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