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hello gang BC here with another t5 this time top 5 laptops as of this mid-october 2010 you know laptops aren't the other computer anymore for most folks they are the computer so don't buy a crappy one here are five that are the opposite of that number five is the delightfully named Sony Vaio VP cz 128 GX it gets an 8.0 seen that rating though and big buzz from CNET users now sit down this one starts at 2 grand and our test unit 3,400 bucks but the design is slick and the hard drive is an exotic 512 gigabyte solid state drive and it's just about the most desirable thing this side of something with an apple on it we did find the battery life to be just fine but it does have switching graphics that's the hot new technology that moves between a high powered dedicated graphics card or a less power-hungry integrated graphics chip depending on your task it's one machine that actually lets you sit down next to somebody with a MacBook Pro and not feel like a tool number 4 is the new MacBook Air with an eight-point-two CNET rating so slim you'll worry it'll cut you the new air uses solid state disks only no mechanical ones so it boots like an iPad and has major battery life we tested the 11 inch and got like 4 and a half hours on a charge if you get the larger 13 inch model battery life gets up near 7 hours then it starts at a grand so kind of pricey especially considering it uses an older Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and only the 13-inch model even offers an SD card reader but you don't buy the new MacBook Air to win a brag war over specs with your geek buddies besides they'll be too busy booting their laptops and dabbing the sweat from carrying them number three another slick looker it's the HP Envy 17 seen that rating 8.2 gorgeous design blu-ray playback 17 inch 1080p display HDMI and display out ports as well as USB 3.0 but the battery lives a little short and that ati mobility radeon HD 5850 is your only graphics choice but at a snick under 1,300 bucks we're still on board with this guy for affordable luxury number 2 the toshiba portage a r 705 p 25 it also gets an 8.2 CNET rating but it's got an editor's choice attached to it and got big scene at traffic lately another sophisticated laptop but not as pretty as the HP or the sony we just saw so why the buzz value is the story here at around 900 bucks and down as low as 800 Street it juggles beautifully the balance of performance design and cost now know one thing stands out but it does have a great keyboard and touchpad you'll use those quite a bit and Intel's wireless display technology for that second monitor and our favorite laptop number one on the list is the MacBook Pro with an 8 point 3 C net rating let's face it these guys invented Loess table design and the latest MacBook Pro looks no different but inside is now available a core i7 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 M graphics that switch flawlessly with the integrated intel graphics chip for the common tasks the multi-touch trackpad is the best in the business it has really powerful one two three or four finger gestures including the one you might just give every other laptop in this list after you play with this little ingot of aluminum for a few minutes now it really should offer HDMI out blu-ray 3G but Apple has instead double down on what their machine already did well expect to pay 2200 bucks or so for the best 15 inch factory config that's what we tested so there you go your iPad is now officially a toy again and you can give your netbook to the kids 5 really great laptops and the latest list you can check out from Dan Ackerman and Scott Stein it's over on cnet.com or just bounce over to top 5 cnet.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching