Asus Lamborghini VX5

Excellent performance, 1TB of storage, inbuilt Blu-ray player, it's a Lamborghini - in notebook form

Speakers lack 'oomph', it's insufferably smug and elitist

The Asus Lamborghini VX5 notebook is a marked improvement over its predecessor, sporting better specifications at a more affordable price. At the same time, it remains a prohibitively expensive status symbol for elitists. If you want a notebook that...

Excellent performance, 1TB of storage, inbuilt Blu-ray player, it's a Lamborghini - in notebook form

Speakers lack 'oomph', it's insufferably smug and elitist

The Asus Lamborghini VX5 notebook is a marked improvement over its predecessor, sporting better specifications at a more affordable price. At the same time, it remains a prohibitively expensive status symbol for elitists. If you want a notebook that...

An excellent mid-range machine with a top-flight price – it's your call whether the branded extras make it worthwhile

Excellent performance ; Premium build

Look might not be to everyone's taste ; Expensive

Any way you look at it, this is a hell of a laptop, but it comes at a premium price

Excellent performance, 1TB of storage, inbuilt Blu-ray player, it's a Lamborghini - in notebook form

Speakers lack 'oomph', it's insufferably smug and elitist

The Asus Lamborghini VX5 notebook is a marked improvement over its predecessor, sporting better specifications at a more affordable price. At the same time, it remains a prohibitively expensive status symbol for elitists. If you want a notebook that...

Luxurious design ; Decent power ; Leather wrist rest makes typing more comfortable ; Ceramic touchpad ; Overclockable "TwinTurbo" mode

Weedy speakers ; Huge power brick may limit portability ; Left facing hot air vent

Asus' Lamborghini VX5 is a luxury laptop, with a luxury price to match — thankfully justified by the quality of the laptop and package. If you've got a wad of cash burning in your pocket, don't mind a little luxury or want to make a statement, the VX5...

Luxurious design, Decent power, Leather wrist rest makes typing more comfortable, Ceramic touchpad, Overclockable "TwinTurbo" mode

Weedy speakers, Huge power brick may limit portability, Left facing hot air vent

If you want a desktop replacement laptop with good video playback facilities, there are other machines with similar performance available for less than the VX5. The same is no doubt true of the Reventon, so you have to decide if the extras in this Asus...

Luxurious design, Decent power, Leather wrist rest makes typing more comfortable, Ceramic touchpad, Overclockable "TwinTurbo" mode

Weedy speakers, Huge power brick may limit portability, Left facing hot air vent

Asus' Lamborghini VX5 is a luxury laptop, with a luxury price to match — thankfully justified by the quality of the laptop and package. If you've got a wad of cash burning in your pocket, don't mind a little luxury or want to make a statement,...