Samsung P10 C XTC 1900 Fingerprint

The battery life will also be good news to travellers, lasting 116 minutes in our intensive test, 215 minutes under light use and 119 minutes running a DVD movie. It's not the best we've seen, but it's far from the worst - expect about two and a half hours under normal use.

For £1,499, the Samsung P10 C is only £54 more than the Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E-7010 (see Labs, issue 95, p54), and also offers faster performance, WLAN, fingerprint security and a larger hard disk. The only disappointment is the standard one-year, European collect-and-return warranty compared with the E-7010's three years. But this is otherwise a superb notebook that provides almost everything the business user needs in one unit.

Ben Hardwidge