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 ...

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 ...

Gee, I can buy a Windows netbook or a Linux netbook. The price is the same. Which will I choose? Windows, of course. What do you think I am, stupid? Apparently, I am not the only one who feels that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, Google unveiled Chrome OS, a lightweight browser-based operating system for netbooks. But the company didn't offer any details on what kind of device could run the OS. Now specs for a ...

According to Gartner analyst Raphael Vasquez, low-end notebooks are edging netbooks out of the limelight. Was the netbook a "bad times" notebook that people turned to because of the low price tag?

If a good number of people start opting for a Netbook, then we have the foundation of, at the very least, a rethinking of the pricey ultraportable. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems ...

There's a new netbook in town, and it looks like it's showing all the other netbooks who's boss. Having just read a review from Joanna Stern of LAPTOP magazine, I officially have a crush on a new ...

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 ...

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 ...