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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who says all netbooks are alike? OK, I may have been guilty of saying something like that on a few occasions. After all, practically every netbook released in the last few months has a 1024 x 600 ...

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) ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Nokia said on Tuesday that Best Buy would sell its first netbook computer for $299 to customers who sign up for a $60-a-month mobile service plan with AT&T Inc . Sign up ...

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.