The guys at Hexus take a look at what you can get these days in the sub-£500 notebook market. There's certainly plenty to choose from these days, so they also gear the article towards exactly how much you should pay for the features you want.

"The days of having to pay, say, £750 for a mid-range laptop are well and truly over, so how much will you get for a certain outlay, and what particular kind of laptop will that be?"