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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since their introduction at the beginning of 2008, so-called netbooks have had a sudden, meteoric rise; sales have surpassed all projections, and new launches have dominated much of the gadget press.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Windows XP goes out of support in April, so I’m looking for guidance on how best to go about replacing it with Windows 7. The Microsoft site has a tutorial, ...

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 ...

After beginning in late 2007, the age of netbooks is coming to a close. Acer and Asus, the two remaining top-tier manufacturers of the small laptops, are ceasing netbook production today, reports the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...