Netbooks are universally regarded for their portability, but no two netbook models are exactly alike, and each seems to come with different trade-offs. A netbook with a superior battery might have a ...

A netbook is more portable and lighter than most traditional laptops because of its smaller size and weight. However, some standard hardware that can be found on a laptop, such as a CD/DVD drive, is ...

An attempt to jumpstart 8-inch Windows slates could quickly backfire An attempt to jumpstart 8-inch Windows slates could quickly backfire is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

News and leaks online have been revealed in small spurts about a new netbook from Sony, but now an “official” leak on a Sony website has confirmed that the machine is reality. It’s dubbed the Vaio ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. In describing Toshiba's decision to exit the U.S. netbook market, Engadget eulogized that it was "a sad day for those ...

The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful information about this category of machines. Sure, they all have wireless networking, but so does every other laptop. What the term originally ...

Asus will this month further muddy the netbook waters by releasing an Eee PC with an optical drive. The E1004DN will have the usual Atom N280 CPU, a 120GB hard drive and the HD-capable GN40 graphics ...

If a good number of people start opting for a Netbook, then we have the foundation of, at the very least, a rethinking of the pricey ultraportable. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems ...

According to Gartner analyst Raphael Vasquez, low-end notebooks are edging netbooks out of the limelight. Was the netbook a "bad times" notebook that people turned to because of the low price tag?

Designer Yang Yongchang is proposing a fold-away solution to the keyboard envy sometimes exhibited by netbook users. For the iWEB design, a full-size QWERTY keyboard is jointed in two places and ...

Nvidia confirms Monday that Samsung will bring out a Netbook based on Nvidia's Ion chipset, another design that breaks the Netbook mold. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including ...

There's a new netbook in town, and it looks like it's showing all the other netbooks who's boss. Having just read a review from Joanna Stern of LAPTOP magazine, I officially have a crush on a new ...