How's that faithful old lappy holding up? Still ploughing on without a 'K' button? Good for you.
When the time to upgrade finally does arrive (or you spill another tea on your old one - whichever happens first), how about pushing the boat out? Going big? Sinking some serious cash into a serious laptop that'll keep you going for years to come.
Here we select 15 of the finest laptops money can buy. Choose wisely.
MacBook Air
- Intel iCore i5
- 8MG RAM
- It's just so pretty
Asus N Series
- Bang & Olufsen ICEpower speakers (it sounds massive)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M graphics card
- 2TB hard drive
Dell XPS 13
- Super-sharp 13.3-inch full HD edge-to-edge screen
- 8GB RAM
- As good as anything with an Apple badge on it, but cheaper
Microsoft Surface Book
- The best hybrid laptop/tablet currently available (in our humble opinion)
- 13.5-inch touch screen (so Windows 10 actually makes sense)
- Intel Core i5 processor
Lenovo YOGA 900
- Fancy 360 hinge mechanism allows you to fold it flat into a tablet/tent/regular laptop
- Intel Core i7 (seriously impressive brains for a laptop)
- 13-inch QHD touch screen display
Samsung Notebook 9
- Gorgeous, super-slim keyboard. It feels proper lovely
- 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 processor
- Weighs just 839g
Dell Inspiron 15 7000
- Intel Core i7 process (big grunt)
- A proper NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB graphics card
- 15.6-inch UHD touch screen display
HP Spectre 13
- Seriously portable: world's thinnest laptop at 1.04cm in thickness, weighing just over 1kg
- 256GB solid state drive
- Guaranteed to attract more compliments than a squad of puppies
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air
- 13.3-inch full HD display
- 256GB solid state drive
- 9.5 hour battery life - it's a really, really neat little package
Alienware 13 OLED
- Absurdly sharp 13-inch OLED screen
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M graphics card
- All-day battery life
HP Elite x2
- Seriously clever laptop/tablet hybrid feature with a kickstand that can find the perfect angle
- 12-inch touch screen display
- 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga
- A proper 'work' laptop with a 360-degree hinge
- 14-inch 2K touch display (if you pay extra for it)
- Built to last
MacBook (12-inch)
- Phwor
- 12-inch Retina display
- Cor blimey
- 512GB flash storage
MSI GT80S 6QF
- ABSURDLY powerful
- Like, powerful enough to run a VR headset without breaking as sweat
- Pretty much the best gaming laptop there is. Seriously
Toshiba Satellite P50
- Hard disk 1TB HDD and 8GB SSD solid state hybrid drive (store all the stuff ever)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M video card
- Forget about using a desktop ever again
