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To say that I was very impressed by the Toshiba R700 on paper would be an understatement. Even with very little actual hands-on time with the notebook, I put it in my mobile buyer's guide as my pick for road warriors. I got Toshiba to send me a review unit to see if the R700 was as impressive in day-to-day use as it is on paper and found that while the configuration they sent me was not so great, the rest of the R700 lineup represents a fantastic value for money and is a great choice for mobile use.

Acer's latest Ferrari-branded laptop looks to compete in the crowded CULV ultraportable market. Packing an X2 L310 processor and HD 3200 graphics, on paper at least the Ferrari One should compete relatively well. Does AMD have a viable answer to the long battery life CULV laptops? Do the HD 3200 graphics offer any real benefit? And should something that's actually quite slow carry the name "Ferrari"? We may not have an answer to that last question, but we can certainly shed more light on the first two items.