Over the last decade the average laptop computer has gotten a lot thinner and lighter. But a handful of Chinese companies have been taking a different approach to portable computers by releasing a ...

The Computex Taipei 2009 electronics show ended Saturday after a week-long display of new gadgets, including netbooks, ultrathin laptops made with new Intel chips, and several surprises surrounding ...

The One Netbook One Mix 3 Yoga is the smallest laptop I’ve ever used with a keyboard that’s comfortable enough to let me type at around 80 words per minute. Measuring about 8″ x 5.1″ x 0.6″ and ...

One of my favorite websites, techbargains.com, lists a number netbooks on sale today for less than $300. There’s a Lenovo IdeaPad S10e running Windows XP selling for $299, but it only comes with 512 ...

People shopping for a netbook computer should consider the new Toshiba Mini NB205, as long as they pack some headphones for when audio matters. The Mini is one of a class of small, robust machines ...

The Web is rife with speculation about Apple’s rumored netbook computer, which, depending on your source and/or pundit of choice, either: 1) may have a touch screen and may ship later this year; 2) ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- If you walked into the right RadioShack store a couple weekends ago, you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook" computer for free. The catch: You would have to sign a two-year contract ...

There has been much speculation about a supposed new Apple netbook computer, and the rumors have once again re-emerged. Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but the current MacBook Air would seem ...

Some people are buying netbooks to use as their main computer. I’m a big fan of netbooks, but there is no getting around the small keyboard and screen, they are best used sporadically rather than ...

The netbook craze began back in 2007 with the Asus Eee PC. What started as a fad has grown into its own PC category. What distinguishes a netbook from a notebook? There’s no official definition, but ...

The first netbook computer running the Google-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available to customers within three months, the maker’s co-founder said this ...

A couple months ago, I wrote that Apple is missing an opportunity by not offering Mac users a “netbook”—a scaled-down, bare-bones laptop computer generally optimized for e-mail and Web browsing.