Best Notebooks - 5 to 7 lb. Weight, Intel Core Duo, Coding

'innovative One Key Recovery system'

'well-designed, light, thin and reliable laptop'

'innovative One Key Recovery system'

'Fan noise is excellent with a very relaxed cooling system.'

'innovative One Key Recovery system'

'well-designed, light, thin and reliable laptop'

'innovative One Key Recovery system'

'Fan noise is excellent with a very relaxed cooling system.'

'sturdy laptop'

'In general the laptop is robust.'

'most budget notebooks might feel flexible or flimsy, the G550 feels like a solid block of sturdy material.'

'it the perfect portable PC'

'Dell goes full-throttle with its latest XPS notebook, the M1730, which packs an Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor, dual Nvidia graphics processors in an SLI configuration, and Ageia's PhysX controller, which theoretically makes games look more realistic than before.'

'new 17-inch high-performance gaming notebook'

'It's the first laptop ever to use a dedicated Ageia PhysX processing unit alongside two separate high-end graphics cards.'

'latest Pavilion laptop line'

'new laptop'

'The dv9000t is HP's new entertainment laptop with a 17-inch high-definition screen and a combo HD DVD player/double-layer DVD burner.'

'great Media Center laptop'

'Has 256MB of video RAM, which is more favorable than some similarly priced notebooks.'