UK Netbook Review

Moblin may not have garnered much press coverage, but Intel is still developing the operating system for netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on its hardware. And according to Ars Technica, the chipmaker has now released the first alpha build of Moblin 2. The open-source OS uses Linux as its base, and Ars says [...]

Here’s the choice: Will consumers buy a thin, light, relatively fast $1,800 MacBook Air or a thin, light, ultrasmall, not-as-fast $450 Hewlett-Packard Mini 1000 Netbook? (Correction: the HP Mini 1000 configuration cited here was originally stated incorrectly as $700.) If many people, fully aware of this choice, opt for a Netbook then we have the [...]

Netbooks are a hot-selling consumer product. The first to appear on the market, a year or so ago, were aimed at children. But now they are proving popular not just with families and first-time computer buyers but also with power users who want something small, lightweight and cheap. They typically have screens measuring seven to [...]

We’ve had a discussion previously trying to nail down what makes a notebook a netbook with no resolution. We admit it doesn’t really make that much difference but in our coverage we try to standardize on the terminology we use so you can follow what we cover over time. The overall impression we get is [...]

  While high-end notebooks aren’t selling as well as they used to, lower-end laptops, sometimes called MIDs or Netbooks, are flying off the shelves. Asus inaugurated the trend with its first Eee PC, and now all the major manufacturers are lining up to get small and cheap notebooks into your hands.  But if they’re underpowered [...]