HP Pavilion x360

It comes in silver or the utterly adorable red colour of our review unit, with the entire outside clad in a kind of candy apple red matt plastic, with silver around the keyboard and a black display bezel. And yes, that display folds from closed like a normal laptop all the way around so that it's open flat against the back of the machine - just about 360 degrees, hence the name.

Inside the 22mm thick frame, you get a 500GB hard drive, 4GB of RAM and Beats Audio speakers, which are a regular feature on HP laptops - and the Beats logo suits the styling to no small degree.

The whole thing is fairly small, though far from tiny, it has to be said. There's a lot of unused space around the 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768 resolution screen - but the advantage of this is that it gives the keyboard more space. It's actually a 97% sized keyboard, so is practically full-size.

The 22mm thickness again isn't bad, but is far from the thinnest, and at a weight of 1.4kg, it's roughly 40% heavier than the 11-inch MacBook Air.

The 11.6-inch display is multi-touch capable for both using the x360 in tablet mode generally, as well as playing some touch-based games. The resolution of 1366 x 768 is perfectly good for its size (it's the same as the much more expensive 11-inch MacBook Air), and in fact many budget or mid-range 15-inch laptops, including the notably more expensiveToshiba Satellite M50.