Medion, the mid-range laptop producer who sell great machines at surprisingly low prices, yesterday announced the Akoya P8610 at Dolby's sound laboratories in deepest darkest Soho. It's a whopping 18.4" beast of a machine, with Blu-ray drive, and some awesome Dolby sound-enhancing technology. Let's take a look in more detail. The aforementioned 18.4" screen runs at 1,680 x 945 resolution, which the astute among you will recognise as 16:9 aspect ratio. The Dolby audio system will happily output in 5.1 surround, or alternatively you can use the surround virtualisation filter on a stereo signal to make it sound like it's a surround source, either on a speaker system or on headphones.