netbooks in pictures

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  In pictures: Sony's new Vaio W netbook

• Tablets Will Be Preferred Devices by 2016

  By Matt Hamblen | 07 May, 2012 23:36

  Tablets will become most users' main computing devices within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett has predicted.

• Windows sales defy predictions, grow 4%

  By Gregg Keizer | 21 April, 2012 02:15

  Stronger-than-expected sales of Windows helped Microsoft post a 6% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, the company said yesterday.

• Lenovo stops selling netbooks online

  By Agam Shah | 25 February, 2012 09:58

  Lenovo has stopped selling netbooks through its website and hasn't decided if it will start selling them again there in the future, the company said on Friday.

• Google looks for fix to Chromebook Wi-Fi 'disconnect bugs'

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 17 February, 2012 07:36

  Google is making changes to its Chrome OS to reduce the number of times that Chromebooks drop their connections to Wi-Fi networks, an issue some users have complained about for months.

• HP's new Mini netbook sports Intel's latest Atom chip

  By Agam Shah | 24 January, 2012 05:42

  Hewlett-Packard has announced its latest netbook, which offers significant application and graphics performance improvements with Intel's newest Atom processor.

• Opinion: CES 2012 trends revisited - Why the year's hottest tech doesn't always succeed

  By Steve Fox | 15 January, 2012 06:27

  Editor's Letter

• Ultrabooks to get the CES spotlight, netbooks get the knife

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 05 January, 2012 22:16

  Some 150,000 people are expected to attend the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week, and most of them kick netbooks to the curb as they rush to fawn over the pricey ultrabook and lower-cost full-sized laptops.

• Intel tries to keep netbooks alive with new Atom chips

  By Agam Shah | 29 December, 2011 03:04

  Intel on Wednesday started shipping the latest Atom chips for netbooks, an important step to sustain growth of the low-cost PCs in the wake of the tablet onslaught.

• Tablet or netbook? How to choose the right mobile tech

  By Patrick Miller | 24 June, 2011 02:16

  Tablets, netbooks, smartphones--these days, you can't buy a microwave without being upsold on the touchscreen, app-store model. But when you're picking out your preferred mobile tech for work (or even for play), you can't rely on a features chart or a list of specs to tell you what you should buy.

• The end is near for netbooks

  By Keir Thomas | 19 January, 2011 06:19

  So long, netbooks.

• Netbooks vs. iPads -- can they coexist?

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 09 September, 2010 03:43

  The term "disruptive," a common buzzword in tech journalism, is typically used to describe something that jars people out of existing ways of doing things, and provides them with both new ways to do the old things and new things to do. Weather-beaten as the expression might be, it fits when talking about two products that took personal computing by storm over the past couple of years: the iPad and the netbook.

• Intel breaks mold, poised to fill 'compute continuum' gaps

  By John Mark V. Tuazon | 07 July, 2010 08:52

  Chip manufacturer Intel is defying conventions and moving out of its established space in personal computing systems, and spreading their territory to include tablets, mobile phones, and smart TVs, among others.

• Chrome OS strives to replace desktop culture

  By Tony Bradley | 03 June, 2010 09:28

  Google's Chrome OS is coming to a netbook near you sometime later this year. The Web-centric, Linux-based, open source platform will offer a lightweight, cost-effective alternative operating system for portable computing.

• Google Chrome OS could shake up PC market

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 03 June, 2010 04:15

  It's official: Google plans to debut its Chrome operating system in the fourth quarter of this year, although the company has yet to provide an exact launch date. Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, made the announcement Wednesday at the Computex trade show in Taipei, according to IDC News.

• Are netbooks worth a look as PC companions?

  By John Dix | 22 May, 2010 04:38

  While the Apple iPad and other emerging tablets may ultimately shift the playing field, netbooks from the big corporate suppliers offer an interesting mobile alternative to big, bulky laptops.

• iPad 'magic' won't hurt netbooks

  By David Coursey | 25 February, 2010 07:35

  "The netbook is not an experience people are going to continue wanting to have," Apple COO Tim Cook said Tuesday at an investment conference in San Francisco. "When they play with the iPad and experience the magic of using it... I have a hard time believing they're going to go for a netbook."