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 ...

One of the reasons netbooks are so popular is that they generally cost less than fuller featured laptops. But in addition to driving down the average price of computers, netbooks have also led ...

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, ...

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 ...

Laptop sales are decreasing, and it looks like the iPad is to blame. It’s well known that the iPad has essentially destroyed the netbook, plummeting its sales into the negative, but now tablets are ...

While the term “netbook” has no formal definition it typically applies to a class of mobile computers, from vendors such as Asus, HP, Acer and Dell, that are smaller than conventional laptops, with ...