Despite our criticisms, it is tough to actively dislike the MacBook Air. The backlit keyboard and buttonless touchpad remain as able a pairing as ever, even if the absence of Force Touch is a disappointment.Indeed, the keyboard remains a pleasure to type on, with good-sized keys that provide a reassuring notch of feedback, and the buttonless touchpad is only bettered by the newer Force Touch-equipped models. The only enduring gripe I can report is that the Air’s sharp leading edge does occasionally dig into the wrists, but this may not prove a problem if your hands are smaller, or typing style is different to mine.Ultimately, the Air is usurped by its own family members: flanked by both the MacBook and the 13in MacBook Pro in Apple’s line-up, the MacBook Air finds itself second-best on portability, weight, power and battery life.If you’re buying a MacBook now, then you really have no excuse not to spend the extra on either of those two devices – and whatever your opinion on the MacBook’s design, it’s tough to argue that the £999 13in MacBook Pro with Retina Display isn’t the better buy.

Even if you haven’t got your heart set on OS X, the ever-multiplying legions of affordable Windows Ultrabooks leave the MacBook Air struggling to keep up. Take the Asus Zenbook UX303LA, for instance: this Windows Ultrabook now marries a similar, all-metal design with a Core i7 Broadwell CPU and Full HD display for a mere £700. There’s no Thunderbolt; no super-fast SSD – but I suspect most people won’t care.For all its good points – and several still remain – the 13in MacBook Air feels like a diminished force, and Apple’s reticence to update it with Force Touch or a much-needed Retina display says a lot about its future in the MacBook family. Say your goodbyes, for the 13in Apple MacBook Air looks to be ready for retirement.Budget laptops rarely set the pulse racing, but the Acer Aspire E1 excites purely by virtue of its price. For a mere £350, this 15.6in laptop touts a Core i3 CPU, 750GB hard disk and all the essential trimmings. See also: what's the best laptop you can buy in 2014?Physically, it’s unmistakably a low-cost laptop. The plain, plastic chassis is finished in matte black, and every edge softens into an inoffensive curve, without a sharp edge in sight. It isn’t completely devoid of style, however: the black plastics are enlivened by the sparkle of tiny flecks of silver beneath the surface.

And despite the plastic construction, build quality is solid throughout. There’s a little flex and creak in the 2.2kg chassis if you manhandle it, but it’s pretty sturdy by budget standards.The keyboard is a pleasure to use, thanks to widely spaced keys and an uncluttered layout – there’s a reassuring spring to every keystroke, and a full-sized numeric keypad alongside. Our only niggle with the large, buttonless touchpad was its reticence to register edge-swipes; the raised lip around the outside means that it’s necessary to carefully draw your finger in from the edge.Internally, the Aspire E1 boasts a very capable specification. The 1.8GHz Intel Core i3 processor is a low-voltage Ivy Bridge-generation CPU, so it’s a little slower than today’s standard Core i3s, but it’s perfectly adequate for everyday tasks. A result of 0.56 in our Real World Benchmarks is a solid showing, and the 6GB of RAM provides enough headroom to take on video-and photo-editing applications. Factor in the 750GB hard drive and the Acer’s specification is positively generous.You can even play older 3D games: the integrated Intel GPU achieved an average of 46fps in our least demanding Crysis test at 1,366 x 768 resolution and Low quality settings.

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Ac There’s also a good selection of ports and features for the money. The single USB 3 port is accompanied by a couple of USB 2 ports on the right-hand edge, plus a DVD writer, an SD card reader, and both VGA and HDMI video outputs. Unusually for a budget laptop, Gigabit Ethernet makes the cut, and wireless networking includes single-band 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.The Acer’s display is pretty average. As is the norm for a budget laptop, the 1,366 x 768 resolution looks a little rough around the edges. Images look pale and washed out, and while the 228cd/m² maximum brightness and 225:1 contrast ratio are pretty typical figures for a budget laptop, the overall colour balance is a little cold and unnatural.Battery life is unexceptional: the Acer’s tiny 37Wh, 2,500mAh battery lasted only 4hrs 38mins in our light-use battery test. Increase the screen brightness, turn on Wi-Fi and start surfing the web, and you can expect battery life to tumble dramatically.You don’t expect perfection for £350, but the Acer Aspire E1 puts in a good all-round performance for the money. The specification is generous, the performance ample and – at this price – it’s easy to forgive the mediocre battery life.

Dell's business-focused tablet, the Venue Pro 11, is deceptive. It isn't as lithe as Nokia's Lumia 2520, nor as stylish as Apple's iPad Air, yet behind its mild-mannered exterior lies one of the most promising tablets we've seen. Boasting Windows 8.1, a Full HD display, generous connectivity and even a removable battery, the Venue 11 Pro is a serious contender. See also: what's the best laptop you can buy in 2014?It would be easy to overlook the Dell's talents, though. The dowdy, 11mm-thick body is cast in a muted palette of black and grey, and it's only once you cradle the tablet in your hands that the build quality becomes evident. At 760g, it's no lightweight, but the plastic body feels reassuringly stout and well constructed. The Venue 11 Pro is unmatched for practicality. There's a mini-HDMI output; a 3.5mm headset jack; a full-sized USB 3 port; a volume rocker switch; and a Kensington lock slot.The rear panel pops off to allow access to the 32Wh battery, and in a welcome change from its predecessor, the Latitude 10, the Venue 11 Pro charges via micro-USB.The centre of attention is the 10.8in, Full HD display. It's as good as any tablet display we've seen. The panel boosts right up to a maximum brightness of 508cd/m2 – more than enough for outdoor use – and the contrast ratio of 1,058:1 is excellent. What's more, Dell has calibrated the panel to provide an unusual level of colour accuracy. Every shade is deftly reproduced, and the panel covers almost the entire gamut of sRGB colour. With an average Delta E of 2.4, colour fidelity is bang on.

Dell has equipped the most affordable Venue 11 Pro with an Intel Bay Trail Atom CPU. The quad-core 1.46GHz Atom Z3770 is aided by 2GB of DDR3 RAM and a 64GB eMMC (embedded multimedia card) drive, and this combination is surprisingly fleet of foot. Startup and application load times are swift, and the Samsung-made eMMC drive is much faster than others we've encountered. Sequential read and write speeds of 151MB/sec and 50MB/sec respectively in the AS SSD benchmark are respectable.It’s been almost a year since AMD’s Llano platform made its mobile debut, and now its successor has landed in PC Pro’s Labs. Promising twice the performance per watt of the previous generation, an upgraded graphics core and a whole host of improvements, AMD’s pinning its hopes on Trinity in the battle to win back market share from Intel.It’s a major move forward for AMD’s mobile chips. Where AMD’s Llano used a tweaked version of the aged Phenom II architecture, the new generation sees AMD’s updated Bulldozer technology, codenamed Piledriver, make its debut alongside revisions of the integrated Radeon HD 7000 GPUs. It’s this partnership that forms the new Trinity-class accelerated processing unit (APU).

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Trinity is still built on a 32nm process, but the transistor count has swelled from Llano’s 1.178 billion transistors to 1.303 billion in the new chips. AMD has added support for the AVX, AVX 1.1 and FMA3 instruction sets, and memory support takes a step forward, too, with the Trinity APU now capable of harnessing DDR3 at up to 1,600MHz and supporting low-voltage, 1.25V DIMMs. Power efficiency is a driving force behind the new design, with power gating, dynamic voltage and speed control on offer across the whole chip, while individual CPU or GPU cores can be powered down when idle. AMD’s Turbo Core technology also reaches its third generation in the Trinity APU. Turbo Core 3 intelligently adjusts clock speeds on the CPU and GPU, clocking down the GPU and boosting the CPU for single-threaded CPU-based operations, or limiting the CPU to its rated speed while delivering more power to the GPU for gaming.Trinity’s GPU has received a welcome upgrade too. The Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs tout up to 384 stream-processing units apiece, and offer DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5 support as well as a significantly improved tessellation engine. AMD is keenly pushing the GPU’s computing capabilities, with the redesigned GPU cores providing higher GPU compute performance than the Llano generation. And, as ever, the integrated GPUs are capable of combining forces with a discrete AMD GPU in CrossFireX mode.

The new architecture will roll out across the A6, A8, A10 and FX ranges, including dual- and quad-core parts, but the new architecture also brings with it the potential for a whole host of new low-powered APUs. Where the most efficient Llano APUs had a minimum TDP of 35W, the new Trinity APUs span 17W, 25W and 35W TDP designs suitable for everything from budget laptops, through to the new HP-branded Ultrabook rivals, Sleekbooks, right up to enthusiast-class gaming laptops.Dell unveiled its first Chromebook at the BETT educational technology show back in January, raising considerable interest with a promised price of £179 for the 2GB model. That specification finally goes on sale on 23 June; ahead of it comes a more expensive (£199) model with 4GB of RAM. Read on for our full Dell Chromebook 11 review. See also what's the best laptop you can buy in 2014?

Aside from the memory provision, the two models are identical. For your money you get an 11.6in screen with a resolution of 1,366 x 768; a Haswell-class, dual-core 1.4GHz Intel Celeron 2955U under the hood; and 16GB of flash storage. Connectivity is impressive, comprising a pair of USB 3 sockets, a full-sized HDMI output, a 3.5mm headset jack and an SD card slot. Dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4 take care of networking; the only major miss is the lack of a wired Ethernet port.The Dell Chromebook 11 runs Chrome OS seamlessly. The machine wakes up instantly from sleep, and boots in seven seconds from a completely powered-down state. In use, we never had to wait for tabs to appear and disappear, performance never flagged even with a screen full of websites, and streaming HD video played perfectly smoothly. Our only reservation in this area concerns the slightly noisy fan, which kicks as soon as the load on the CPU ramps up. The Chromebook 11 excels in benchmarks, completing the SunSpider JavaScript test in 323ms and scoring 2,767 in the demanding Peacekeeper browser test. We’d expect the 2GB model to perform similarly, as there’s little difference between these scores and those of the 2GB Acer C720.Battery life was also on a par with C720. With the screen set to a brightness of 120cd/m2, wireless turned off, and a low-resolution YouTube video set to loop indefinitely, the Dell lasted 5hrs 54mins on a single charge. It’s a touch better than the Acer, but the gap is small at 18 minutes.

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