Small, cheap, and surprisingly powerful, netbooks are the new ultraportables. Here's a look at the upcoming crop of netbooks, with advice on what to look for and how to buy wisely.

Netbooks became the hot new category, and companies rushed to fill a niche pioneered by Asus’s original Eee PC, the first publicly announced netbook. Netbook Sales Plummet.

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The debate about Netbooks, which are very small and very cheap laptop devices, is beginning to heat up. The category is only about a year old but sales are expected to top 5 million this year.

Thanks to their utilitarian design and low prices, netbooks are inspiring a booming subculture of hackers souping up their liliputers with touchscreens, Bluetooth and unauthorized operating ...

Now growth isn't going away overnight for netbooks, but you can see where this is headed. Gartner estimates that netbook shipments will be up 30 percent in 2010, but then start to slide.

Netbooks were a market-share play—at $300 to $400 each, PC manufacturers were making very little on each one sold, so the only way to succeed was to get a huge slice of the market.

But I have one thing that's a must for Windows 7 - It must support netbooks. There's been a lot of chat lately about Windows 7, Microsoft's replacement to the image-tarnished Windows Vista.

With netbooks taking the market by storm, Intel has taken it upon itself to develop a new distro called Moblin, and it's utilizing Xfce as its default Window Manager.

Netbooks are dead, long live the Chromebook. Lewin Day wrote up a proper trip down Netbook Nostalgia Lane earlier this month. That’s required reading, go check it out and come back. You&#8217… ...