Photos: Five of the best mini laptops

Another week, another ultra-mobile PC launch... Miniature laptops which pack enough power to keep you productive on the road yet have a convenient, travel-sized form factor are hot property right now. There's certainly no shortage of laptop manufacturers bringing out dinky offerings with dainty price-tags so business travellers on a hardware hunt are spoilt for choice.

Here we round up five of the best mini laptops...

Asus Eee PC 900
The Eee PC is arguably where the ultra-mobile, ultra-low-cost laptop craze started - although its spiritual home is the $100 laptop project proper.

Asus's Eee - which stands for three easies: 'Easy to work. Easy to learn. Easy to play' - was launched with an educational focus but its clean good looks and low cost quickly found it a market beyond the classroom. The smallest Eee is very small indeed, with a seven-inch screen, but the 900 (pictured) has a slightly larger display (8.9-inch) and a bigger keyboard making it more friendly to the professional user.

And while the original Eee launched with Linux (which helped keep the price down), GNU Linux and Windows XP Home versions of the 900 are offered. Windows users, however, have to make do with a smaller hard drive.

The 900 weighs just under 1kg and its dimensions are 22.5cm x 17cm x 3.38cm.

Price is around £350.

Photo credit: Asus