1.Sony Vaio - My favourite laptops since i own 2 Sony vaio CR and they just rock because of the performance, neat designs , light weight and best of all the other laptops in my opinion. The design part of sony laptops are the design which are very neat though apple macbook gets number #1 rank in terms of looks. The pricing part is very important in case of sony vaio laptops because if you are looking for the basic models they start around 1500USD (or) 55000 Indian Rupees and the latest vaio series come with inbuilt webcam and a fingerprint scanner below the cursor keys which are the latest technology.



2. Dell XPS - Dell used to be a market leader in all their products series long back but now its position has been taken by many other laptop manufacturers, and Dell has recently launched a new model - The XPS 1730 which is a powerful notebook with Intel core 2 duo (2.0GHz) / T7500 (2.2GHz) / T7700 (2.4GHz) / X7800 (2.6GHz) processor and is the first laptop to have intel’s latest Core 2 extreme x 7800 mobile processor.







3.HP Laptops - HP Pavillion laptops were the products HP started manufacturing with the latest models being HP Pavilion dv2600 series Entertainment Notebook PC, HP Pavilion dv2000 series Entertainment Notebook PC, HP Pavilion dv6000 series Entertainment Notebook PC and HP Pavilion tx1000 Entertainment Notebook PC. With the screen size ranging from 12.1″ to 15.4″ HP offers a stylish design, high-definition viewing and wide-screen twist and turn touch-screen. Current offers from HP include a Hauppage TV Tuner with HP Pavilion/Compaq Presario Notebook PCs worth 5000 INR





4. Acer Laptops - Acer laptops have launched many series some of which include the Aspire 4920 Series, Ferrari 1000 Series, Extensa 5210 Series, Aspire 5573 Series, TravelMate 6292 Series, Aspire 5583 Series, Aspire 3680 Series, TravelMate 4233 Series and TravelMate 3275 Series. This laptop manufacturer company is currently advertising very heavily in the upcoming laptop industry in india because the laptop buyers are increasing in india rather than the desktop computers. Acer laptops pricing comes at a lower end with a starting price of around 30000 Indian rupees which is the normal pricing for a standard desktop computer.



5. Apple Macbook - Macbook Pro - Apple has started selling laptops in india with a very limited number of stores all over india, and i own a Apple Mac book which i bought from a apple store in banglore and overall i had a bad experiance because i bought the laptop for my brother and he wanted to use it at his college on a wireless data card usb connection and the macbook is not able to connect to the reliance data card USB connection because of some driver problems, and this is the problem with any wireless internet connection. This macbook can only be used on a broadband connection with the inbuilt wifi port. The macbook series are one of the best if you can sort out this Wireless internet connection problems because of the superb quality inbuilt camera, mac os operating system which can be upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard though i have a dual boot system of Mac OS with windows xp professional. The pricing of Macbook’s start at 65000Rs in india and include a 1 year warranty.

FOR THE UNINITIATED, a tablet PC is a laptop on which you can write. Literally. The screen doubles up as a large touchpad. We have the new HCL Leaptop Z35C2D, a 12.1-inch tablet PC that packs in the power of a mainstream laptop with tablet PC features at a price tag a shade under rs.50, 000.

Features and Design
Like all tablet PCs, the HCL Leaptop Z35’s screen can rotate 180 degrees and fold back onto the keyboard such that, when you use the stylus, it resembles an actual book. The response from the touch pad is adequate and new users can feel at home within an hour. The only inconvenience is that you need to tap the stylus harder on the screen than on other devices. On the upside, this will reduce the chances of an accidental click being registered (this is a hard-to-find balance for any manufacturer). When it comes to handwriting recognition however, software is yet to mature adequately and it takes a bit of patience to work with it.

Let’s just say for anything more than a couple of lines, you are likely to be using the keyboard. The display is a disappointment mainly because of its low brightness level. While tablet PCs in general don’t have bright screens (unlike mainstream laptops), owing to the additional touch sensitive layer on them, on the HCL Z35, this handicap is very telling and for some it could be the single biggest undoing factor. The touchpad came as a pleasant surprise, unlike many other HCLs we have seen. Cursor movement can be controlled precisely and the touchpad is responsive as well.

The feature list includes a160GB hard disk, fingerprint scanner, memory card reader, Firewire, three USB ports and three port audio with s/PDIF. The laptop comes with windows Vista Home Premium 64bit edition. With an all-black gloss exterior, HCL has kept the design simple. The glossy finishes make fingerprints and scratches standout though.

Performance and Battery Life
Tablet PCs generally skimp on computing power in exchange for weight and / or battery life. But not this one. Powered by an Intel Core 2Duo t5750 (2.0GHz, 2MB L2cache) and a 2GB RAM, performance is not a constraint. Video duties are handled by the Intel X3100 video card –enough to pull off Aero, but not much of gaming, as indicated by a 3D Mark 2006score of 580. In PC world’s real world bench marking suite – world Bench 6.0, theZ35 obtained a score of 75 –this laptop has enough juice even for CPU heavy tasks .similarly, a PC Mark 05 score of 3, 968 reiterates what world Bench 6.0 indicates.

The disappointment though is the battery life. Mobile Mark 2007 lasted just 116 minutes of running the Productivity suite. With a weight of 2.2kg,,a sub two hour battery backup is quite disappointing. A tablet PC is usually used while on the move – battery life is more important than sheer performance. This is where we feel HCL got the equation wrong.

Verdict
HCL gets competition in the form of HP’s tablet PC, the Pavilion tx2000 which has an MRP of rs.57,990. It comes with a slower AMD CPU but has 3GB RAM and a 250GB hard disk. The HCL Z35, however, will be a good choice if you want to stick to the lower side of rs.50, 000 and don’t mind its weight and lower battery life