We haven't talked a lot here on GadgetRoad about netbooks lately, but we have a novelty: the cheap ASUS X101CH EEE PC, a 10 inch netbook with the new Cedar Trail Atom platform from Intel. The preview has made my our friends from NetbookLive.com.This is the successor to the this years's X101H, and will arrive on market in February 2012, so until then you have to rely on previews like this, that...

In opposition to the laptop niche market, when it comes to the netbook niche there are not too many hardware options. This is why it often happens that new models do not impress if they do not have new platforms.The good side of this is that producers need to concentrate on delivering a high quality smartly designed and built device with good quality of materials. In the following article we w...

Once Asus announced the Eee PC series, all the other producers lost no time and launched their own netbook versions. This is how Acer became well known for the Aspire One model, Lenovo for the IdeaPad, Dell fir the Inspiron Mini, while Sony (Vaio), HP (Mini), Toshiba and Samsung came on to the market a bit later. Although it is not the most famous portable device creator MSI managed to launch a se...

On a more and more competitive market of mobile gadgets where users can choose between smartphones, notebooks and tablet PCs, netbooks seem to have an unsure future. You will easily find over 400 models of notebooks on internet shops, but you will find much fewer netbooks. In addition to this, even if now there are not too many available tablets on the market, more and more producers are becoming ...

When the first info about the Eee PC series from Asus appeared no one expected the cheap notebooks (of a small size and weight) to have the success they ended up having. After Asus’s success a lot of other different producers became interested in entering this niche market.  This is why today we can buy netbooks from producers such as Toshiba, Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung and, of cour...

Do you need to write a netbook comparison or you just want to buy one and you can’t decide which one to choose? Even if it seems to be simple, this netbook ratings business is more difficult than you may think, especially if you want to do a good job.Having that said, what are the aspects to look at when you have to compare mini laptops?(more...)...

I've been wondering whether i should buy a netbook or not for quite a while now, as a replacement for my every day laptop that's way too heavy to carry around (around 6 pounds). And i'm sure there're many of you having the same problem as i have. That's why i put together a couple of pros and cons of a normal everyday netbook.The pros:they're small and light they have good autonomy (2-5...