There's a bit of an anti-Netbooks meme making the rounds in blogs and on Twitter and the expected push-back from their fans. From where I sit, this is fueled partially by the conflating of product and ...

There was a time when choosing a miniature laptop was a fairly straightforward exercise -- you bought an Asus Eee PC. Now every manufacturer and its sister has released its own take on the affordable, ...

Netbooks are cropping up in the American landscape like mushrooms after a spring rain. Walk through any coffee shop, public park or airport terminal and you're certain to see folks hunched over and ...

Long ago, before smartphones were ubiquitous and children in restaurants were quieted with awful games on iPads, there was a beautiful moment. A moment in which the end user could purchase, at a ...

The marketing geniuses in Redmond are at it again. From the folks who brought us “Zune,” “Bing,” and “https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,25820-order ...

Netbooks came into their own in 2009. The market was saturated with offerings from different vendors that all more or less sported the same internal specs: an Intel Atom processor, 160 GB of storage ...

When it's all said and done, I predict tech geeks will remember 2009 as "the year of the netbook." And, if you haven't heard of a netbook, you will soon. For people who use their PCs to surf the Web, ...

Netbooks are winning over consumer hearts and credit cards. While some consumer products, like iPhones, have pushed their way into the enterprise, netbooks haven’t. Is it just a matter of time before ...

I never owned a netbook, but I played with them constantly when I was interning at Maximum PC magazine. I worked there in 2009, during the height of the netbook’s popularity. The idea of a tiny laptop ...

They sucked, that's what happened. In almost every case the compromises made for a pretty awful user experience. I agree with Happysin; the natural progression of hardware means that laptops are now ...

The netbook has been murdered. The concept of an inexpensive computing device with high value for the third world has been sufficiently co-opted so as to make the category meaningless. Some called ...