Netbooks are tiny–usually between half and two-thirds the size of a garden-variety laptop–and they typically weigh only about 2 pounds. With their cool, slim designs, they outclass some fancy ...

Although netbooks remain available at retail and online outlets, new models are few and far between. Asus, the original netbook maker, is still selling several netbook models.

In July 2008, netbooks made up just 1% of total laptop sales. By December, they had almost a fifth of the market. However, netbooks quickly became a victim of their own success.

Netbooks use Intel Celeron, Intel Atom, or Via Nano CPUs. All are x86 compatible, and they have great power usage. At best the devices have 1 GB of memory, and some make do with as little as 256 MB.

In other words, netbooks sucked, and Apple didn’t want to make computers that sucked. As Steve Jobs told investors in 2008, “We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of ...

But I have one thing that's a must for Windows 7 - It must support netbooks. Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor Oct. 27, 2008, 2:12 a.m. PT ...

Q3. With netbooks taking the market by storm, Intel has taken it upon itself to develop a new distro called Moblin, and it's utilizing Xfce as its default Window Manager.

Netbooks are dead, long live the Chromebook. Lewin Day wrote up a proper trip down Netbook Nostalgia Lane earlier this month. That’s required reading, go check it out and come back. You&#8217… ...

Netbooks may seem like unlikely devices to attract the interest of hardware hackers, who traditionally have been drawn to bigger iron. Compared to full-size laptops, netbooks are low-powered and ...

Now growth isn't going away overnight for netbooks, but you can see where this is headed. Gartner estimates that netbook shipments will be up 30 percent in 2010, but then start to slide.