I have many computers in my house, including my very first 386SX, but when my three year old Easynote had to go for a checkup, a friend lent me her EasyNoteTJ65. The reason behind this was that none of my old PCs have enough oomph to run the quite powerful broadband service supplied by my ISP.

Now, I'm not usually a technology type of bloke, but I'm also not a Neanderthal nor a Luddite. However, I did a bit of nosing around on the borrowed laptop - it's okay, my friend and I keep no secrets - to see what sort of power the thing had under the bonnet. It had something called an Intel Pentium Dual-CoreT4400 Processor... that bit of news went right over my head!

But, I did notice that it runs Windows 7 as the operating system. I wondered why it was so much different than the XP Home Edition I'm used to on my own laptop. The hard drive boasted a whopping 320GB, which I thought was wasted on my friend as she would never ever fill that up, even if she stored the names of every single person in the world on Facebook, Twitter and any other suchlike sites. With me, though, I'd give the hard drive a good run for its money as my wife is always telling me to unclutter our machine.

I was suitably impressed with the 4 Gigs of RAM and it was rather like getting into and driving a Ferrari after jumping out of a Ford Focus, as my laptop occasionally struggles with 1 Gig of memory. I don't usually worry about screen size or resolution; as far as I'm concerned, if it switches on, lights up and I can read what I need to then it suits. The EasyNoteTJ65 has a 15.6 inch display with LED backlighting (okay, so I'm showing off now) but my own laptop sports a 19 inch screen so I guess mine wins in that department... possibly.

There's wireless technology included, DVD rewriter as standard, and even an HDMI socket which I only thought came with television sets. There's an onboard webcam, although I didn't use it, but I bet it'll save many anxious moments twiddling around with a camera that clips on just above the screen. And, get this, the EasyNoteTJ65 that I tried gets shipped with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. That's quite powerful photo manipulation software.

Would I use one again? You bet I would, but for the time being I'd have to rely a bit more on my friend's generosity in that department.