A whole bunch of us at PC Magazine are fans of the show "Heroes" - really, what's not to love? An Industrial Light and Magic programmer and Rory Gilmore's ex-boyfriend discover they have superpowers and struggle, struggle, struggle. Being PC Maggers, we started thinking - what kinds of laptops should the Heroes have, based on their personalities? Yes, I know they've been seen using computers - but if they could get a tech makeover, which gadgets should they be carrying?

Please, feel free to make your own suggestions. Find my picks after the jump.



Isaac Mendez - He's an artist, and what's an artist without his Mac? He may be broke, but I'm betting his rich ex-girlfriend could have been talked into getting him a nice, midrange MacBook with a Wacom tablet to do some of his initial sketches on.

Hiro Nakamura - Hiro needs a powerful laptop that's only available in Japan and reflects his family's wealth and high standing. Enter the Sony Vaio Z93 with its carbon-fiber casing. Never mind the high price - he may be a cubicle worker, but daddy bought this one.

Nathan Petrelli - He's a very serious man, getting very serious work done. Nobody questions the seriousness of a guy working on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It radiates an aura of "I'm very important! Do not bother me with your insane meanderings!"

Peter Petrelli - Am I the only one to think he's not quite sure what he wants to be? The Toshiba Portege R400-S4931 is the perfect laptop for the perenially indecisive. It's a tablet! No, it's a laptop! Hey, if he partitions the hard drive correctly, he could load any operating system he comes into contact with. (This is what passes for humor at PC Magazine.)

Hana Gitelman - Any notebook Hana carries has to support the latest wireless standards. For her, 802.11b is like talking to your slightly slow cousin. She needs a Dell XPS M1210 with the optional 802.11n upgrade, EVDO and Bluetooth - now that's a fast talker.

Claude - Homeless and itinerant, Claude needs something he can jam into an invisible pocket. It's not a stretch to think he saw an OQO Model 02 on the desk of some apartment he was wandering through and decided to make it his own.

Claire Bennet - Claire always seems to be jumping into flaming boxcars, falling off towers, or getting skewered with various objects. A fully ruggedized Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 can't heal itself, but it does a pretty decent job of preventing breakage in the first place.

Mr. Bennet - Take a look at the Gateway M255-E. Now look away. Can you remember it? Gateway's designs are so bland, it's like they wipe themselves from your memory within minutes of seeing the laptops. Yet they are surprisingly effective machines. Perfect for a man who's clearly running a lot of critical applications, yet doesn't want to be remembered.

Jessica Sanders - Anything that can't be used as a blunt instrument to batter someone to death is totally uninteresting to Jessica. So she went out with some stolen dough and got a Panasonic Toughbook W4, which she mostly uses to answer emails from Linderman.

Niki and Micah Sanders - Niki isn't much into computers, and their family doesn't have much money. Grandpa bought Micah a basic Dell Inspiron B130 laptop to do his homework on. Micah doesn't mind because he can tell it to do, basically, anything he wants.

Mohinder Suresh - This guy is running the frickin' Human Genome Project on his laptop. He needs a Lenovo T60p with the workstation graphics upgrade: capable of visualizing millions of molecules of genetic code while simultaneously running that Access database he has in the background.

Sylar - Obviously, he carries a homebrew that he built from other laptops' parts. Sort of like our own John Delaney.

PS - If Micah can talk to computers, and Hana can hear computers, can Hana hear Micah whining?