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 ...

The Computex Taipei 2009 electronics show ended Saturday after a week-long display of new gadgets, including netbooks, ultrathin laptops made with new Intel chips, and several surprises surrounding ...

Hello and welcome to today’s installment of “are netbooks helping or hurting computer makers?” There’s absolutely no doubt that mini-laptops represent the fastest growing segment of the computer ...

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

People shopping for a netbook computer should consider the new Toshiba Mini NB205, as long as they pack some headphones for when audio matters. The Mini is one of a class of small, robust machines ...

The first netbook computer running the Google Inc.-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available to customers within three months, the maker’s co-founder said ...

Some people are buying netbooks to use as their main computer. I’m a big fan of netbooks, but there is no getting around the small keyboard and screen, they are best used sporadically rather than ...

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) ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- If you walked into the right RadioShack store a couple weekends ago, you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook" computer for free. The catch: You would have to sign a two-year contract ...

There has been much speculation about a supposed new Apple netbook computer, and the rumors have once again re-emerged. Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but the current MacBook Air would seem ...

Dell has stopped selling 8.9-inch Netbooks, focusing instead on ones with slightly larger screens. Visitors to Dell's U.K. Web site earlier on Monday found the Mini Netbook page displaying the phrase ...