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 ...

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 ...

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.

Microsoft, and not the manufacturer, will decide what is and is not a netbook with screen size being the main metric. So just how small will you have to go to run Windows 7 Starter Edition? We've ...

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 ...

The MacBook Neo is a sensation. Soon after Apple launched the $599 laptop and I posted quick first looks on various social media, I was stunned at the response. Thousands of likes, hundreds of ...

When is a netbook no longer a netbook? I ask because, as I work my way through the current crop of devices from Asus, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, and MSI, I keep running into features and configuration ...

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 ...

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 ...