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 ...

A year ago, the netbook recipe was simple: Mix a single core Atom N270, 1GB of memory, a 160GB and Windows XP. Lately things have become more complex. Intel released faster Atom processors, and more ...

Taiwan’s AsusTek Computer has played a major role in defining the netbook computer genre. Its Asus Eee models, along with competing mini-notebooks such as the Acer Aspire ONE and Lenovo Ideapad, have ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new class of cheaper, smaller netbook computers might upset the IT establishment this year and potentially usher in new players in a hotly competitive market. The biggest ...

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) ...

Apple has often dismissed the possibility the company should compete with low-cost netbook computers, saying the popular devices are ‘junk.’ When rumors of Apple making a tablet computer appeared, ...

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 ...

As the American economy retrenches, the computer industry may be a window on how tech businesses are faring. PC sales are way down; however experts predict a big driver for computer sales in the next ...