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The One Netbook 5 is a small laptop with a 10.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel touchscreen display, a convertible design that lets you use the computer in notebook or tablet modes or pull the screen forward ...

Apple has often dismissed the possibility the company should compete with low-cost netbook computers, saying the popular devices are ‘junk.’ When rumors of Apple making a tablet computer appeared, ...

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

While the term “netbook” has no formal definition it typically applies to a class of mobile computers, from vendors such as Asus, HP, Acer and Dell, that are smaller than conventional laptops, with ...

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 ...

One of the classic queries for tech buyers is, “Should I buy a laptop or a desktop?” It has been around even longer than the Android versus iPhone debate. But every now and then it’s worth checking ...

Personal computer sales overall will grow 52 percent by 2015, the report predicts, with consumers in the U.S. purchasing nearly half a billion desktop, notebook/laptop, tablet and netbook PCs during ...

The Computex Taipei 2009 electronics show ended Saturday after a week-long display of new gadgets, including netbooks, ultrathin laptops made with new Intel chips, and several surprises surrounding ...

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 ...

Need a featherweight laptop that lasts all day on a battery charge? Thin, light, and power-efficient, these ultraportables are our top performers in testing.