Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P8020 in Laptops

Battery life is worthy of note too. Switch to the P8020's Power Saving mode, which turns off peripherals such as wireless radios and the DVD-writer and reduces the screen refresh rate to 40MHz, and this little laptop will get you up to 7hrs 38mins. That's under light use conditions, but at just short of an entire working day, there aren't may laptops around that can compete with this. At full power, it lasted for a more modest 2hrs 39mins, but this is again pretty good.

There are things to like about this 12.1in laptop - the screen and the long battery life, for instance - but alas it's nowhere near enough to convince us that it's worth its whopping price tag. The LifeBook P8020's eyebrow-raising £1,308 cost brings it into the same territory as Lenovo's excellent X200, which is altogether more powerful, boasts better build and is cheaper too.

Author: Jonathan Bray