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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Editor's note: Looks like the Sylvania Netbook we reviewed wasn't a fully baked version. We'll be getting a finalized demo unit soon and will update this post to reflect that.]__ __ Sylvania? Yeah, ...

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future of mobile computing: The Smartbook. In the same way that a netbook filled a previously unknown need by being something between a laptop and a smartphone, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The keyboard? It rocks. The screen? Beautiful. The trackball is just the right amount of gritty, so your finger sticks to it and doesn’t slide off onto the keyboard. The instant-on OS? Classy. The ...

Four months ago, we published a buyers guide for small, lightweight laptops titled, ‘How to buy a mini-laptop.’ Mini-laptops are now generally called netbooks — a name coined by Intel — but the ...