5 Trendsetting Laptops

Laptops have come a long way from the days when they were described as "plastic" boxes with a hazy LCD screen and an underpowered CPU. Today’s laptops are sleek sexy products, made out of space age materials such as carbon fiber (titanium in some rare cases), sport powerful processors and have long battery life. Keeping these parameters in mind here is our list of the 5 laptops we think have become the definitive standards in mobile computing.

Sony is the first name that comes to anyone’s mind whenever the thought of a classy expensive lifestyle product comes to mind. Be it from their beautifully styled PS3 or their Bravia range of TVs, Sony is in a class of its own. Therefore it should come as no surprise when we say that Sony’s Vaio range of portable laptops are probably the most famous laptop range around.

The Sony Vaio VGN-TX790P/W is a 11.1 inch ultra-portable that is fairly loaded. Built on a platinum carbon-fiber casing, this beautiful laptop comes with an Intel Pentium M ULV 773 processor , a widescreen LCD panel with a native resolution of 1366x768 (16:9 Aspect Ratio) and a 80 GB HDD. In terms of battery life this ultra-portable is easily able to top 7 hrs of battery life owing to its small LCD panel and power-saving processor. Weighing in at a mere 1.3 KG and with a small body (10.7” x 0.83” - 1.12” x 7.7” WxHxD) this laptop is the among ultra-portables. It is available in India for a listed price of Rs. 1, 30,000.

We had recently reviewed the Asus Lamborghini VX1 and come away impressed. This is one of the best looking laptops that are available right now. Its body is sleek, sharp and sporty with a very high quality gloss finish. The overall finish of the laptop is similar to the appearance of a Lamborghini Gallardo and is available in jet black and sporty yellow.

The VX1 apart from its good looks is a powerful performer too. It packs in a Core2duo T7400 dual- core processor (2.16 GHz) and 2GB of RAM. Storage is taken care of by a 5400 RPM 160 GB hard drive and graphics is handled adequately by a GeForce Go 7400 chipset. The LCD panel is another area where this laptop excels. It has a 15 inch LCD panel with a native resolution of 1400x1050 and sports the same splendid video enhancement technology that is present in the Asus PW201 20-inch desktop monitor. In terms of battery life the laptop manages to reach an impressive 3 hours.

The VX1 is available in India at a price of Rs. 2,00,000.