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 ...

This HEXUS.help guide explains what netbooks and nettops are, how they work, where you'll find them, and what the future holds for low-cost computers. Early in 2008, Intel announced its plans to bring ...

Just because your netbook came with an operating system pre-installed doesn't mean you're stuck with it. If you've swapped out your OS—or stuck with it because it rocks on the netbook!—now's your ...

Google’s Chrome OS may be ultimately intended to run on cloud-focused netbooks when it comes out, but as of yesterday it looks like a small, startup competitor could beat the search giant to the ...

Just like with pre-touchscreen cellphones having fancy innovative features that everyone’s forgotten about, there’s areas that laptop manufacturers used to venture in but no longer dare touch. On ...

Mark Gibbs looked at the Samsung NB30 and decided it needed a better OS. I recently received for review a Samsung NB30 netbook computer. If you have been living under a rock, Wikipedia defines ...

The first netbook computer running the Google-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 this ...

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 ...

TAIPEI, June 2 (Reuters) - Acer Inc <2353.TW>, the world's No. 3 PC brand, plans to sell netbook PCs that run on Google's Android operating system, posing a potential threat to Microsoft's Windows.

Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite netbook operating system, then we rounded up the five most popular candidates for a vote. Now we're back to highlight the winner and runners up.