Gamer's delight: Dell XPS Gen2

Neon blue underlights aren't just for Max Power readers, the Dell Inspiron XPS2 has them on its lid. Utterly tasteless, but blazingly fast, the XPS is a gaming machine for anyone who thinks desktops are dull and laptops don't really need to be carried.

When the XPS arrived at Crave, we couldn't believe a relatively straight-laced company like Dell had the guts to build such a boy-racer kit-car of a laptop.

It's heavy, but then you'd expect that from a machine loaded with enough graphics horsepower to run games like Hitman and Half Life 2. If you want to freak out your fellow travellers, load up a game of Hitman Contracts on the train and snipe some virtual civilians, muttering to yourself and screaming when your victims die -CS