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 ...

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 ...

What goes up must come down, and lately what’s coming down are netbooks, as more and more articles talk about the compact computers disappointing customers. However, we can’t blame netbooks for that.

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 ...

If you still blanche at the term “netbook” for being an ungainly piece of vendor-speak, then prepare to be nauseated later this year as “smartbook” supporters start to bang that marketing drum. What ...

I'm not sure how a quad core would help Atom. The problem is that Atom is slow at single-threaded workloads. Most of the web applications that people use netbooks for are, in fact, single-threaded.