Monday, January 31, 2011 - 3:00pm
Do you have a netbook kicking around? Do you ever use it? Yeah, didn't think so. Why not give it some new life by turning it into a little arcade cabinet?
Netbooks stories
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 2:47pm
Today, Google announced the beta launch of its Chrome operating system, along with a new notebook to run it on. If you spend most of your time on the Internet, Chrome OS has a lot going for it, but you may want to wait for a piece of hardware that's not quite so incredibly ugly.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 1:38pm
Computers don't get much cheaper than this: Kmart is now selling an Android-powered netbook by Augen for a mere $190. With a 10.2-inch screen, 1024x600 display and weighing in at 1.8lbs, it looks about how you'd expect a netbook to look.
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 2:06am
Toshiba has finally taken the wraps off its planned iPad-killer called the Libretto W100, a shiny black clamshell device that fits in the palm of your hand and actually rivals iPad in terms of slick design.
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 9:39am
Sony just updated its P Series of tiny laptops, keeping the 8-inch screen but adding enticing new features. Top of the list is an accelerometer that lets you turn it on its side for a vertical view. So what is...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 7:57am
One of the biggest problems with the small form factor of netbooks is the keyboards. They're just too small to comfortably use with adult-size hands. But the footprint of the computers themselves are great, making them super portable. What's the...
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 1:02pm
Netbooks have been evolving for the past couple of years, and this MSI Wind U160 is the most refined example of the breed we've seen yet. MSI lent us one of the slim, light, cheap bronze-colored baubles, and we took...
- Battery life
- faster
- GPU
- graphics
- graphics card
- graphics processing unit
- Ion
- Ion 2
- longer battery
- Netbooks
- nvidia
- performance
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 7:41am
A big gripe with netbooks you often hear is that they're too sluggish, especially when you're trying to do anything remotely taxing to the GPU — anything from playing a simple game to working with more advanced elements. Even with...
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 1:53pm
The next big app push isn't for the next big handset — it's for netbooks. Intel is spearheading an effort to bring a plethora of smaller applications to the cheap laptop market with its AppUp Center, which is already filled...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 8:49am
Still reeling from the astonishing 1080p video playback of the NVIDIA Ion platform we tested inside that Echo 1 home theater PC, we snapped to attention when we saw the HP Mini 311. It's also packing Ion inside, and our...
