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 Chief Steve Jobs could be about to pull off yet another neat piece of jujitsu, using the limits placed by Microsoft on how netbook makers can use its software to set Apple apart from its low-end ...

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 ...