The perfect companion for seasoned travellers who demand a lot from their laptop, the Sony Vaio S Series combines minimal weight, high-end specs and a luxurious finish for a truly top-drawer laptop.

Price: £999 | Sony

Touting a backlit keyboard for improved user friendliness the Sony S Series laptop offers a wide selection of impressive specs kicked off by the inclusion of a 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge processor, bolstered by 4GB of RAM. That means it can multitask effortlessly and run any less graphically-demanding apps at high speed.

What's truly impressive however, is that this level of quality finish, power and a four-and-a-half-hour battery life all come in a case just 2.2cm thick and 1.63kg in weight.

With a 10.1-inch, 1024x600 resolution display, it's barely bigger than some tablet devices – now that's impressive.