Alan Lu is currently external communications manager at Vodafone UK and has a background in corporate communications and media writing. An alumnus of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he has previously served as reviews editor for IT Pro and Computeractive.
Asus K52JC review The Asus K52JC is a well-equipped laptop, but it's overpriced at £700.
£700
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB review It's incredibly fast at writing files, but slow read performance and a high price heavily detract from it.
£255
Sony Vaio VPC-EE2S1E/B review Sony's latest Vaio looks sleek, but it's not fast enough in everyday applications compared to other laptop, and it has unusually short battery life.
£653
Acer Aspire 5551 review The Acer Aspire 5551 is an attractive laptop that's comfortable to use, but it's not especially fast and the screen is average.
£600
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 15in review The ThinkPad Edge has good performance and battery life but a disappointing screen and smallish hard disk.
£662
Mesh Dynamo 16-RG review The Mesh Dynamo is a powerful laptop, but there are better-value, better-designed alternatives available
£614
V-Moda Remix Remote review The Remix Remote earphones are effective at blocking out background noise, but they don't sound as balanced as we'd like.
Cowon J3 16GB review The Cowon J3 has excellent video format support and battery life, but niggling audio quality and interface issues prevent it from getting an unconditional recommendation.
Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB review The Barracuda LP's high price and disappointing performance means we can't recommend it.£137
Crucial 128GB RealSSD C300 2.5in with Data Transfer Kit review The C300 is an incredibly fast SSD, but it's also expensive.£254
Samsung SpinPoint EcoGreen F3 2TB review Generally fast performance and lots of storage at a reasonable price makes the F3 2TB a great value hard disk.£90
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB review It's incredibly fast at writing files, but slow read performance and a high price heavily detract from it.£255
Sony Vaio VPC-EE2S1E/B review Sony's latest Vaio looks sleek, but it's not fast enough in everyday applications compared to other laptop, and it has unusually short battery life.£653
Acer Aspire 5551 review The Acer Aspire 5551 is an attractive laptop that's comfortable to use, but it's not especially fast and the screen is average.£600
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 15in review The ThinkPad Edge has good performance and battery life but a disappointing screen and smallish hard disk.£662
Mesh Dynamo 16-RG review The Mesh Dynamo is a powerful laptop, but there are better-value, better-designed alternatives available£614
V-Moda Remix Remote review The Remix Remote earphones are effective at blocking out background noise, but they don't sound as balanced as we'd like.£65
A-Data NH01 Nobility 500GB review The Nobility is surprisingly cheap for a USB3 disk and is very fast too.£74
Cowon J3 16GB review The Cowon J3 has excellent video format support and battery life, but niggling audio quality and interface issues prevent it from getting an unconditional recommendation.£199
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB USB 2.0 review The FreeAgent GoFlex is neatly designed, but a standard USB3 portable disk is more than good enough for most people.£75
Toshiba Satellite L670-12J review A good-value, large-screen laptop. Its only weakness is gaming performance.£555
Iomega Prestige Portable Compact 1TB review If you need lots of portable storage right now, then the 1TB Prestige is a reasonably priced, if imperfect portable hard disk.£128