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Dell Vostro 1400, £233
You're probably wondering what the hell the Dell Vostro is doing in this list. It's big, comparatively heavy and it's, er, a Dell. But let's not lose focus here, people. It costs a measly £233 -- less than you pay for an Eee PC -- and it'll spank the backside off the rest of these wannabEees in performance terms.

The Vostro range is available in a variety of form factors, the smallest of which has a 14-inch display and a chassis weighing 2.5kg. Okay, so it isn't especially portable, but it does have the advantage of a full-size keyboard and a screen you don't need ophthalmic surgery to read.

The basic package includes a 1.86GHz Celeron M CPU, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 120GB hard drive, Intel GMA X3100 graphics, a 1,280x800-pixel display and the luxury of all luxuries: an 8x DVD rewriter!

802.11b/g Wi-Fi comes as standard, and you can customise it to hell and back to eke even more performance out of it. That's probably just as well, since it uses Windows Vista Home Premium edition. 'Downgrading' to Windows XP Professional will set you back an extra £30, which is pretty outrageous. You can read more about this laptop in our Dell Vostro preview.

Update: Dell also offers a 15.4-inch Vostro 1000 series laptop for £210 plus the cost of shipping, which is based on AMD processors.