Much coverage of this year's Consumer Electronics Show is full of references to new Netbooks introduced at the show. But in fact, there were hardly any Netbooks at all, and those that did appear went ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Netbooks came into their own in 2009. The market was saturated with offerings from different vendors that all more or less sported the same internal specs: an Intel Atom processor, 160 GB of storage ...

Netbooks are cropping up in the American landscape like mushrooms after a spring rain. Walk through any coffee shop, public park or airport terminal and you're certain to see folks hunched over and ...

Some people are lusting after the sleek, stylish iPad. But the only portable gadget in my heart right now is the Alienware M11x netbook, a computer that’s about as refined and subtle and awesome as a ...

Netbooks are winning over consumer hearts and credit cards. While some consumer products, like iPhones, have pushed their way into the enterprise, netbooks haven’t. Is it just a matter of time before ...

The netbook has been murdered. The concept of an inexpensive computing device with high value for the third world has been sufficiently co-opted so as to make the category meaningless. Some called ...

The recent arrival of cheap small and light "netbooks" have finally made me consider investing in a laptop. <BR><BR>I have a beast of a stationary computer, so this notebook would exist purely as a ...

What goes up must come down, and lately what’s coming down are netbooks, as more and more articles talk about the compact computers disappointing customers. However, we can’t blame netbooks for that.

A lot of portable computer manufacturers seem to have been losing focus lately, releasing netbooks at near-notebook prices. Not Belco! Their Alpha 400 MIPS netbook is priced more like a scientific ...

I'm not sure how a quad core would help Atom. The problem is that Atom is slow at single-threaded workloads. Most of the web applications that people use netbooks for are, in fact, single-threaded.