Offering a great all-round multimedia experience at an extremely reasonable price tag, Dell’s XPS 15 laptop is also an aesthetic tour de force, with a very reasonable, five-hour battery life.

Price: £498.99 | Dell

With an Intel Core i5 2.53GHz 460M processor with 4GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 6470M graphics card, it's more than capable of gaming and editing HD video.

Hosting inbuilt JBL speakers for a premium audio output, the Windows 7-running XPS 15 also offers up a strikingly bright 15.6-inch, 1366x768 LCD screen.

With a trio of USB 3.0 ports, HDMI and a Blu-ray player this is a future-proofed power-user's machine at a refreshingly low price.