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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

I never owned a netbook, but I played with them constantly when I was interning at Maximum PC magazine. I worked there in 2009, during the height of the netbook’s popularity. The idea of a tiny laptop ...