Sayonara, netbooks. The end of 2012 marks the end of the manufacture of the diddy machines that were - for a time - the Great White Hope of the PC market. If you believed ABI Research in 2009, then ...

Remember netbooks? Those inexpensive, highly portable, long-battery-life laptops made primarily for lightweight tasks like Web browsing? Netbook sales have declined. In the United States, sales have ...

Long ago, before smartphones were ubiquitous and children in restaurants were quieted with awful games on iPads, there was a beautiful moment. A moment in which the end user could purchase, at a ...

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 ...

Thanks to their utilitarian design and low prices, netbooks are inspiring a booming subculture of hackers souping up their liliputers with touchscreens, Bluetooth and unauthorized operating systems ...

Netbooks, which were all the rage a few years back, are facing competition from tablet computers and cheaper laptops, said analysts who note that while the product category will stand for now, there ...

When the showing off new netbooks -- those low-cost, undersized laptops -- otherwise exuberant corporate executives start knocking their own products. Netbooks are cramped and underpowered, they argue ...

Netbooks have been the PC market's bright spot over the past nine months, but sales have slipped recently, and they now face an uncertain future. They are losing some of their price advantage over ...

Netbooks’ rise and fall When netbooks first appeared in late 2007 — kicked off by the introduction of Asus’ Eee PC 701 — sales for the devices exploded by 872%, according to Gartner analyst Mikako ...

Written by CNET's Rafe Needleman, the Real Technology column appears Thursdays on CBSNews.com. Laptop computers are getting bigger and more powerful. But if you're in the market for a new portable ...

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. Originally what the term ...