The netbook has been an amazing success story over the last two years, and one notable element of that story is the extent to which the individual devices have been driven primarily by the platforms ...

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 ...

Lenovo has introduced a new netbook with a 12-inch display that will also be the first netbook device to include Nvidia' s new graphics platform, Ion. The IdeaPad S12 from Lenovo will have a 100 ...

New research by IDC points to falling sales of the chip that drives the majority of netbook PCs–Intel’s Atom CPU. One suggestion is that the first quarter 33% drop is a sign that the netbook’s rise to ...

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 ...

Are consumers dissatisfied with their netbooks? Despite the form factor's explosive growth in popularity and seemingly bright future, a market analysis firm with a novel means of collecting and ...

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 ...

Looks like the netbook is no longer the immature, dim-witted cousin of the grown-up laptop: Sharp’s new Mebius netbook is so shiny and clever it outclasses many "superior" machines. It’s got a ...

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 ...

When you think of an AI-forward PC, you might think of something like NVIDIA's $3,999 DGX Spark — a computer with enough computing power to run complex large language models locally. That's not what R ...

Netbook sale growth has plunged in the months after the the iPad hit stores. Why? The Apple iPad is the quintessential entertainment slab, a computer made of screen that makes the perfect travel ...

There was a time when choosing a miniature laptop was a fairly straightforward exercise -- you bought an Asus Eee PC. Now every manufacturer and its sister has released its own take on the affordable, ...