Mainstream laptops haven't changed all that much in the past 10 years; for the most part, we remain stuck with bulky chassis that sport 1,366x768-pixel panels. These contrast sharply with sleek, slim tablets equipped with HD-busting resolutions as standard. Perhaps, then, it's best that laptop manufacturers concentrate on high-end models offering genuine gaming performance contained within svelte chassis.

Gigabyte's visited this market with the P34G while UK builder PC Specialist has gone big with the Optimus V X17. Looking to take the best bits of both by releasing a large-screen gaming laptop with an impossibly-thin profile, German manufacturer XMG believes it has an ace-in-the-hole with the staidly-named C703.