Tablets are the rage today, rapidly eating into the netbook market. While they are convenient, it is often annoying to have to type out long documents on the onscreen keyboard. Asus has cleverly added a keyboard dock to its 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet powered by a 1 GHz dual core processor that enhances its overall utility.

Named the EEE Transformer, the tablet has been designed in two parts. The 10.1-inch tab measures 12.9 mm thick with a textured panel at the back. Good enough for stand-alone use, it supports a capacitive touch display and has almost all controls on the side panel including the SIM slot, micro SD slot, volume controls, mini HDMI connector and 3.5mm jack. Only the charging port is covered when connected to the dock, though the dock itself has a charging port. In addition, the dock has two USB ports and a well-spaced QWERTY keypad with shortcuts for Wi-Fi, brightness, browser, search, etc. While it weighs 640 gm, the keyboard adds around 750 gm to the total weight, which would be about what a netbook weighs. The Transformer runs on Android and not the regular Windows, so users might take time getting used to it. It managed to give us 12 hours of battery backup when connected to the dock and seven hours otherwise.

Beetel has added a new feather in its tab-cap. With the launch of an upgraded tab, the Magiq Glide, the company is trying to compete against the likes of the Reliance Tab.

Where the new 7-incher looks exactly like its predecessor is the user interface. Running on Android 2.2, the custom Ul has application tabs at the bottom—home, web, entertainment, communication and favorite. There are some shortcuts on the top right with the last icon for task manager and notifications. The kick stand at the back makes it easy to type or watch videos.

The biggest drawback of the Magiq was its resistive touch display. Rectifying past mistakes, Beetel has given the Glide a capacitive screen which makes scrolling through the main menu and even typing simpler and smoother.

The Beetel Magiq Glide has a 1GHz processor with 512 MB RAM. The overall performance was decent, but the 2MP camera and battery were average.

Audio is another weak point, Even with the supplied Dolby Home Theater activated, stereo imaging was vague and seemed to wander from one side to the other, Bass was utterly Lacking, and volume Levels were so Low that I kept checking the controls to make sure they were maxed out,

On the rear are two USB 2.0 ports and an HDMI connector. A lone audio jack is on the left, and an SD Card slot sits on the right. The unit has no USB 3.0 ports. Admittedly that array is only slightly worse than what you’d get with a MacBook Air, but the Air has a high-speed Thunderbolt port than can serve as both an I/O and a digital monitor connection. Like the Air, the S3-951 lacks an Ethernet jack; the only connectivity is through 802,11n Wi-Fi. Unlike the Air and most other Ultrabooks, though, Acer’s model omits Bluetooth support.

Acer says the S3-951 we tested ships with a 20GB solid-state drive and a 320GB Hitachi hard drive, The SSD is set as a “hibernation drive1՛ so the Laptop can restore rapidly after hibernating: consequently, hibernating is more battery-efficient than entering sleep mode, and faster than cold-booting. But using the SSD merely to cache hibernation data is a waste of about 15GB of space. It would have been better to use the SSD as a robust hard-drive cache, if possible.

The HP Pavilion dv6 is one of the latest notebooks equipped with the new second-generation Core i7-2630QM that features both integrated as well as discrete graphics hardware. In accordance with HP’s new design direction, some attention has also been paid to the way it looks. Dressed in a “dark umber metal finish”, the HP dv6 looks more expensive than it really is, with the finishing on both the lid and palm rest.

As far as connectivity goes, the HP dv6 isn’t lacking in any way, with the usual ports taking up residence on the left and right of the notebook. Notable inclusions are the two USB3.0 ports, and an extra audio jack –which is provided to consumers under the “Beats” brand, one of the key selling points of the multimedia machine. Sound from the quartet of built-in speakers sounded clear and sharp, and especially potent when earphones are plugged in.

The 15.6-inch, 1366×768 pixel resolution screen is bright, but images are affected when viewed from extreme angles, making sharing the view a bit of a tricky affair.

A chiclet-style keyboard is also found on the dv6. Typing is generally comfortable, but we found that it flexes fairly deep, likely due to the use of a cheap plastic casing surrounding the island keys. This wouldn’t be so noticeable if HP hadn’t chosen to up the design ante throughout the whole laptop. Atonement does come in the form of a beautiful and large LED-accentuated trackpad that glows blue when enabled, and dark orange when disabled; classy.

For a notebook that weighs 2.63kg, you’d probably want to use it as a desktop replacement. And as one, its performance won’t disappoint. Its scores from our benchmark tests were respectable, trumping the Lenovo ideaPad Y560, a first generation Sandy Bridge notebook from early this year by a significant margin in every category. It’s no slouch when it comes to running graphics intensive games either, scoring well above the Y560 when running on its discrete graphics card. Gaming is not advised for the integrated options, but highly recommended if you want to preserve battery life.

When running on integrated graphics, power consumption is lowered almost 30%, thus increasing battery life from 2 hours and 7 minutes, to 3 hours 20 minutes; impressive indeed.

Ultimately, the solidly-built HP Pavilion dv6 is a step in the right direction for HP, combining good looks with affordability. It has all the power and frills that you need, and it goes easy on your wallet at an asking price of just 51,499. Unfortunately though, given the recent news of HP looking to exit the consumer personal computer market, there’s really very little reason to consider picking up one of these, unless you happen to come across a deal you can’t say no to.

At a glance, it’s easy to mistake Samsung’s RV520 for a much more expensive laptop. The textured lid almost looks like a pressed sheet of metal, and the two-tone silver and black design looks classier than its price might suggest. At only £430 inc VAT, however, it’s the second cheapest full-sized laptop in the group this month.

Get up close and there’s no mistaking the budget construction ֊ that faux-metal finish is actually just sturdy-feeling plastic. But don’t let that put you off, as the 2.41kg Samsung is actually very well built. There’s precious little flex in the lid; no matter how hard we pressed on it, we simply couldn’t make it show through to the LCD panel.

The keyboard’s backing has a hollow feel, but the Scrabble-tile keys give a firm, positive response with ever)’ stroke, and there’s no issue with the spacious, sensible layout. It’s reassuring to find a touchpad that’s equally trouble-free. The individual buttons have a crisp, light clicking action, and the touch surface responds quickly to nvo-fingered scrolling and zooming motions. Look up from there and you’ll find yourself faced with an unusually good 15.6in display.

The 1,366 x 768 resolution comes as no surprise, but the quality of the picture it produces is sublime. Colors are rich and saturated, and even tricky skintones look pleasingly natural. With a contrast ratio of 269:1 and an average Delta E of 7.1, the RV520’s display has the measure of many pricier laptops.

What’s amazing is that Samsung’s RV520 is so free from compromise. The Core i3-2310M processor keeps performance competitive with its peers – a result of 0.55 is just behind the best in the group – and the presence of 6GB of DDR3 memory and a 750GB hard disk is impressive at the price.

In fact, the only thing lacking is a discrete graphics chipset. With an average of only 27fps in our Low quality Crysis test, 3D gaming is the one real weakness we can see.

Battery life doesn’t quite scale the heights of Acer’s TimelineX 4830T, but Samsung’s RV520 keeps its head held up high.

A light-use battery result of 6hrs 34mins is plenty for the occasional trip away from a mains socket, so you could happily watch a film in bed, for example, without having to trail power cables. The final question is one of connectivity, and here the RV520 puts together a solid list.

A quick scan around the chassis reveals three USB 2 ports, Gigabit Ethernet and an SD and Memory Stick card reader, while wireless networking comprises single-band 802.1 In and Bluetooth 3. The only thing lacking is USB 3 – not a killer feature at these low prices.

We could find fault with the Samsung RV520 if we really tried, but at £430 inc VAT you simply can’t ask for much more. The great quality display is a huge plus point, and if you just want a high-quality workhorse for minimum cash, you won’t do better for the money.

Another quality gaming machine, the Qosmio F730 is the first laptop to offer glasses-free 3D. Toshiba achieves this by tracking the eye movements of the person sitting in front of the screen. A pair of web cameras follows your gaze and adjusts the output for each eye.

The screen is a generous 15.6in (1366×768-pixel) panel and is optimally viewed from a distance of around 60cm. A Blu-ray XL drive (which can record up to 100GB of data on a single platter), an nVidia GeForce GT 540M graphics chip with 2GB of video RAM, a 640GB hard drive, and Harman Kardon speakers all feature on this 2.9kg gaming laptop.

We’re torn between the Xperia Play and the Sony Tablet P split-screen gaming tablet. The latter will be on sale from mid-November and allows you to play PlayStation Portable games on its dual 5.5in touchscreens. The lower half of the tablet acts as a gaming controller.

As well as standard Android apps there’s DLNA tech for bouncing content from tablet to large-screen TV support for the Sony Reader Store, plus access to the Sony Unlimited Music library.

When we first saw the Asus Zen-book UX31, we knew it would take a top spot in the new laptop ultrabook category, thanks to its well-crafted all-metal construction, superb Bang & Olufsen audio, and a keyboard that rivals the trend-setting Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) for comfort. And in our Labs we learned that beyond just looks and feel, it has a lot of power to boot.

The Zenbook UX31 is roughly the same size as the Apple MacBook Air and the Acer Aspire S3. Its 13.3-inch widescreen displays in 1,600-by-900 resolution-higher than the 1,366-by-768 display on the Acer S3 and the 1,440-by-900 display on the MacBook Air.

The audio on the UX31 is also impressive, powered by Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower. The resulting sound on the Zenbook is crystal clear and consistent at high volumes— and you can get a surprising amount of volume out of this little laptop.

The Asus Zenbook UX31 may be early to the ultrabook party, being one of only two on the market, but it tops the spiritual progenitors of the ultrabook category, the Apple MacBook Air 13-inch and the Samsung Series 9. With models on the horizon from Toshiba and Lenovo (both coming in November), it may face some stiff competition soon, but for the time being, the Zenbook UX31 is our Editors’ Choice and the ultrabook to beat.

The Acer Travelmate 8481T-6440 laptop is very similar to the crop of luxuriously thin ultraportable that has surfaced of late, except it targets small businesses. You can say it’s similar to an ultrabook, with its thin metal-clad frame, low-voltage Core i5 processor, and 11 hours of battery life. Ultrabook or not, the 8481T-6440 is great all-around, and it unseats the Dell Vostro 3350 as our new Editors’ Choice for small-busi-ness laptops.

Like the Dell Vostro V131 and Lenovo ThinkPad XI, this Travelmate measures less than an inch thick. Its 3.9-pound frame might seem heavy compared with the competition, but its huge 87WH battery and 14-inch widescreen are worth the added weight.

To keep it luxuriously thin, Acer left out an internal DVD burner. But it has four USB ports, two of which are USB 3.0, and one which is a combo ESATA port. It also includes an Ethernet jack and VGA port, plus a full-size HDMI port and media-card reader in the front bezel. The 320GB hard-drive capacity is smaller than the 500GB drives found in the Dell V131 and HP 6465b, although performance won’t be affected because it spins as fast they do (7,200rpm).

In terms of processing muscle, the 8481T-6440 has an Intel Core i5-2557M—not the best candidate to tackle hardcore video-and photo-editing jobs or compile huge databases, but it can handle many common tasks with ease. That said, its Cinebench R11.5 (1.64) and Handbrake (2:56) scores were considerably slower than the Dell 3350 (2.56 on Cinebench; 2:33 on Handbrake) and Lenovo X1. It also took several more minutes to complete Photoshop CS5 (6:54) than the Dell V131 (4:21).

The Acer Travelmate 8481T-6440 may not have enough speed to power past its peers, but there’s enough of it to get some serious work done in a small-business environment. Add to that its phenomenal battery life, and you have the perfect companion for business trips.

Along with the Acer Iconia, this is one of the smallest tablets on test, but this seven-incher doesn’t lack powerful tech.

You get the same 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core processor found on larger tablets and a standard 8GB of storage plus microSD slot, but at 390g the ViewPad is light enough to be used one-handed. That makes it effortlessly easy to enjoy the slick performance and lag-free films on the go.

The seven-inch screen is impressively vibrant and viewing angles are strong unless you tilt the tablet downwards, which immediately darkens the image. Photos and films look razor-sharp thanks to the 1024×600 resolution – not HD, but more than crisp enough for a seven-inch screen.

Movies and games don’t just look good; they also sound great thanks to the impressive oomph of the built-in speakers.

We went on a four-and-a-half-hour film-watching binge, with the screen on full brightness before the battery died. That’s an impressive effort – a full 35 minutes more than the similarly-sized Acer Iconia Tab.

Android Honeycomb’s seven homescreens come pre-filled with widgets and apps; including Flickr and the obligatory weather app. Annoyingly you can’t customize the first three screens, so you’re limited to four panels for your own bookmarks and assorted apps. Still, we liked ViewSonic’s bespoke virtual 3D wheel, which lets you switch between the screens with an elaborate swipe on the responsive touchscreen.

The rear five-meg camera is reasonably sharp, but even with a flash it’s abysmal in dim lighting conditions.

Want to impress fellow commuters? The ViewPad doesn’t have the wow factor you’re after. You’re unlikely to find a more hardworking tablet at this price, though.

THE Asus Zenbook UX31 is the first laptop from the Taiwanese manufacturer to conform to Intel’s ‘ultrabook’ specifications and stands toe-to-toe with Apple’s MacBook Air in the fight for the title of best luxury ultraportable.

The Zenbook is fantastic to look at. When closed, the wedge-shaped laptop measures 17mm at its thickest point and a mere 3mm at its thinnest. The aluminum silver lid boasts a distinctive concentric circle design that catches and reflects the surrounding light. Befitting the name, the Zenbook’s simple, sleek finish gives it a premium look that keeps getting better as soon as you lift the lid.

The isolation-style keyboard is front and center inside the Zenbook with no additional clutter from the likes of hotkeys, volume controls, numeric keypads or even separate mouse buttons. As the chassis is so thin, there’s very little depth to each key. At first, this can be of-putting, especially if you’re used to hammering out your emails – but before long typing on the Zenbook becomes second nature.

We did find the directional arrows and the enter key to be a little on the small side, but not enough to interfere with extended typing sessions. Alongside the keyboard, Asus has included a large, central touchpad. We had doubts about the inbuilt buttons and lack of a textured surface at first, but these were soon laid to rest. The response is swift and because of the larger size, it is possible to use your thumb on the touchpad without moving your hands from the typing position. Occasionally you might brush the touchpad when typing but this is a rare occurrence.

ACER has announced their slim, light and powerful Acer Aspire S3 laptop. This kick starts a slew of Ultrabooks that are about to take the market by storm. We got our hands on an early pre-production model to find out how this early flagship portable is shaping up.

‘Ultrabook’ is a term coined by Intel, which has tried to invigorate the laptop market. It’s effectively a loose standard, of design and specification that aims to deliver powerful, but portable and lightweight laptops.

The beautifully styled, 13.1-inch Aspire S3 is a guaranteed head-turner. It attracted interested comments and questions wherever we took it, as friends and strangers looked jealously at the clean thin lines, and classy aluminum body.

Its style is distinctly similar to the MacBook Air, with a metallic unibody design, where the keyboard and wrist rest is a single piece of aluminum and magnesium alloy, which keeps it really light.

The laptop weighs just 1.4kg, and measures just 18mm at its thickest point, making it slimmer and lighter than the MacBook Air. It’s so thin that its two USB ports, AC socket and HDMI port have had to be located at the rear, as there’s no room for them on the sides.

Movies look great on its bright, pin-sharp screen that has a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels. The S3 features a Super-TFT display, which aids clarity and vibrancy, but will reflect light more than matt panels. However, we didn’t find this a problem, and it seems that Acer has found a good middle ground for this versatile laptop.

Tablets demand processors and interfaces designed for the job, but that hasn’t stopped Fujitsu from resurrecting the winter tablet.

This is a 10.1in՝screen model running Windows 7 Pro powered by Intel’s Atom processor. For storage it takes a 62GB solid-state disk (SSD) with only 27GB of usable space.

On the bottom is a docking port; along the sides, USB 2.0 and HDMI, plus an SD Card slot. Buttons on the right let you flip the screen orientation and switch off the Wi-Fi.

Given the choice of operating system and absence of a keyboard, Fujitsu has included a dedicated button to invoke the Task Manager. When Windows locks up, this can help get you out of trouble. Missing are buttons to control the screen brightness and sound volume.

The build quality is tough-looking. Fujitsu has beveled the edges to allow a more comfortable grip of the 16.5mm-thick frame. At 390gr it’s around 50 percent heavier than an iPad 2 – and it feels it, too.

Acer’s Aspire Ethos multimedia laptops arc built to deliver cutting-edge style and power at affordable prices. The 5943G-5464G50Bnss packs powerhouse graphics, high-def compatibility and bags of features, making it a great media center for the whole family.

Its sharp lines, elegant silver and black color scheme, and faux-chrome highlights create a high-quality look. While the silver plastic hides smudges and scuffs, the black plastic palm rest is not so effective, with fingerprints showing clearly.

The chassis feels well put together; the palm rest flexes slightly under heavy pressure, but you won’t notice it in daily use. At 2.9kg, you won’t want to carry the Acer far but the battery life of 164-minutes is among the best in this group.

The isolation-style keyboard’s large, well-spaced buttons are easy to reach when typing at speed and the short movement of the board makes it very responsive. It is also well fixed to the chassis and shows no flex or bounce, even when typing firmly.

The large piano-black touchpad is just as pleasing to use and doubles as a touch-sensitive multimedia control panel that enables you to play and control your music and videos.

Movies and photos look great on the sharp 15.6-inch screen. The panel is bright and clear and delivers natural colors and striking contrast. Its low (1,366 x 768-pixel) resolution is disappointing, as it precludes Full HD content, but this is inevitable at this price and is a shortcoming common to all six laptops here.

The iPad 2 is the successor to a product that’s single-handedly driven an entire market. Its fantastic capacitive touchscreen means that browsing through the OS and interacting with the apps and your content has yet to be bettered. The screen also features multi-touch features that enable you to manipulate content by finger gestures. Pinch your fingers together on the content to zoom in, for example, and then do the opposite to pan out again.

The 9.7-inch display features a 1,024 x 768-pixel resolution and is bright, crisp and clear without being exceptional. Standard-definition (SD) films and TV look good, but we were a little disappointed by the quality of high-definition (HD) video downloaded from the iTunes store.

The iPad 2 also features a great onscreen keyboard. It is large and intuitive to use, even when the accelerometer has switched smoothly into portrait mode, with an intelligent auto fill feature that helps you to fill out regular details quickly.

The iPad 2 heralds an upgrade to an Apple-proprietary 1GHz dual-core ARM processor, which never shows any sign of lag, providing plenty of juice for running the OS and any apps you may have open.

Unlike the iPad and Samsung-dominated 10-inch universe, the 7-inch market is still anyone’s game. The ViewPad 7x comes loaded with Android Honeycomb and there are little design tricks that give it more of a personality than many 7-inch rivals. The embossed casing at first looks black, but catching the light reveals it to be a deep red. Coupled with the red band that outlines the tablet, the overall effect is more attractive than the average black slate.

ViewSonic has wisely decided to drop any physical buttons from the front of the tablet and rely on the three on-screen Android keys for navigation and overall this keeps the 19S x 121 x 15mm body looking sleek. We didn’t have any problem holding the View pad 7x one-handed for any length of time, partly due to its small size but also because of the barely noticeable 390g weight. If you were looking for a tablet to carry around in a jacket pocket, this would be ideal. The bright capacitive screen will do your pictures and movies justice with a 800 x 480-pixel resolution but it’s still difficult to recommend for any kind of immersive media experience. The 7-inch screen can’t compete with the display on a larger tablet and the highly reflective coating means watching in bright light is difficult. While it’s perfectly suited to catching up with TV shows on the train or at the airport, we doubt you’ll want to settle down for a feature length film with the ViewPad. The good news is that if you did want to watch a movie, the battery life wouldn’t get in the way. We coaxed 260 minutes from the device with the screen brightness turned up to full while streaming HD video.

New tablets have to do a lot to stand out in today’s increasingly Android-saturated marketplace. We had high hopes for the first tablet from smartphone maestro, HTC, but the Flyer’s steep price and outdated operating system (OS) make it hard to recommend.

The major problem is that the Flyer runs Android 2.3, which has now been replaced by Android 3.0 (dubbed ‘Honeycomb’). The latter offers great features and a slick interface designed specifically for tablets, and returning to 2.3 feels like taking a step back in time.

At least HTC has designed its own custom interface (called ‘Sense’) which fits over the top of Google’s OS. You get multiple desktops to play with, which can be scrolled through with a simple flick of the finger. As well as adding shortcuts to your favorite applications, a large number of widgets can be arranged on these desktops, including everything from the latest weather report to breaking news headlines.

The tablet feels solid and highly durable and is surprisingly weighty, but at 425g it won’t make your arm ache, even with extended use. Ports are limited to a simple mini-USB connection, while you also get volume controls on one edge and a built-in accelerometer that automatically rotates the desktop when you swivel the tablet.

It has taken Sony close to two years to enter the tablet market. In an excellent bid to stand out in the crowd, Sony has given its tablet a refreshing and aesthetic design. Described as an “ergonomic innovation”, the design consists of an unusual curve-wedge shape, rather like a single sheet of black plastic bent to make the ends meet. The gorgeous looks give the impression that the Tablet S is a heavy device. But at 598 gm, it is more than comfortable to lug around. The controls, including on/off, volume, 3.5mm jack, memory card slot and a mini USB port, are on the side while the charging jack lies at the bottom.

This 9.4 incher runs on the version of Android modified for tablets, Honeycomb v3.2. The interface is similar to what the other Honeycomb tablets offer: five windows on the homescreen, the application launcher tab on the top right along with the back, home and multitasking icons on the left bottom. Other than Google services, it comes with some interesting applications on board. These include Remote Control that turns the tablet into a universal remote, Wi-Fi checker and a Social Feed Reader. Video Chaska, Star Player, Big Flix, Bollywood Hungama and Meragana.com have been specially designed for the Sony Tab. You can download them by hitting the Select App’ icon from the app launcher. Watching multimedia content on the tablet was a pleasure and using the Throw Function and DLNA’ we could actually watch the video playing on the tablet on the Bravia TV using Wi-Fi. To enable this stellar performance, the Tablet S has a dual-core ARM Cortex processor clocking at 1 GHz along with 1 GB RAM. Like the iPad, this tablet is only Wi-Fi enabled (no SIM) and offers 16 GB of onboard storage. The battery lasted close to seven hours.

Asus’ U36JC is the only laptop here to rely on a pre-Sandy Bridge processor. While the Core i5-460M runs at a seemingly pacey 2.53GHz, it’s missing the generational speed boost and efficiency enhancements that every other machine here benefits from.

With older versions of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost, to name but two, performance isn’t as it should the these days. The U36JC scored a mere 0.49 in our benchmarks, which is this month’s lowest score by some distance.

The cash saved by choosing a last-gen chip has at least left room for discrete graphics. Nvidia’s GeForce 310M averaged 36fps in our Low quality Crysis test, slightly higher than laptops with Intel’s integrated graphics. It isn’t this month’s best gaming option – the Dell XPS 15г easily wins that honor – but it’s an improvement on many.

Alas, the discrete GPU is the brightest spot in an otherwise average signification. It has a 500GB hard disk, but there’s no optical drive, dual-band wireless or integrated 3G, Build quality is reasonable, with little give in the lid, but the base Ilexes when typing and the keys are oddly squished vertically, making it easy to mistype.

We talk about long-life laptops throughout this Libs, but Panasonic’s Toughbooks meet that criterion lit more ways than one. Put simply, the semi-ruggedized CF-53 is the laptop equivalent of an army all-terrain vehicle: a 54mm magnesium-thickened chassis weighing 2.6kg; rubber seals over all interfaces; and a hard disk mounted in shock-absorbing polymers. You can drop it from up to 76cm and splash water over the keyboard, safe in the knowledge the Toughbook won’t even blink.

Using it feels like puzzling over a retro toy, with one flap on the right edge hiding a USB 2 and USB 3 port, and another masking ExpressCard / 54, PC Card and SD slots, and a switch for tin’ dual-band 802.11agn Wi-Fi. A third slides down to provide access to the removable battery – which we’ll come to later-while the rear has doors hiding ran more USB 1 ports, Ethernet HDM and D-SUB outputs, and even a serial port.

The keyboard has a classic feel, with deep key travel and none of today’s Scrabble-tile gaps to collect dust and dirt. The touchpad is decent; although the burtons feel squishy and hinge awkwardly on the edge as you press them.

The CF-53 has the power to match its cyborg looks, too. A 2.5GHz Core i5-2520M and 4GB of DDR 3 RAM led to a benchmark score of 0.67, which only two others here could better. Panasonic has sensibly stuck with integrated graphics, so despite that speed the Cb-53 lasted a monstrous 10hrs 46mins in our light-use battery test.