Long before the first Asus Eee PC, OLPC XO Laptop, or even the Psion netbook, there were handheld PCs running DOS and Windows CE. They were popular with a small group of tech enthusiasts in the 90s ...

Before there were netbooks running Linux and Windows XP, there were handheld PCs, running EPOC or Windows CE software. They may not have been able to run full fledged desktop applications like Firefox ...

“What do you expect from an $80 netbook,” asks our friend Sascha of Netbook News? You may of course answer “Not much” but that would be cynical. After all, a box with a 7-inch screen, three USB ports ...

The NetBook Pro adopts the same hardware design, but fans of the earlier devices will immediately notice the replacement of Psion’s old EPOC operating system with Microsoft’s Windows CE .NET. The EPOC ...

A name in danger of extinction (or perhaps more accurately: imprisonment), the netbook has gained a new ally in the form of Dell, Inc. The netbook maker indirectly lent a hand to the Save the Netbooks ...

When it comes to Windows netbooks, associated costs can make the device as expensive as a low-end laptop.Take, for instance, the netbook selection sold by AT&T. These range from the $99 Acer Aspire ...

Since their introduction at the beginning of 2008, so-called netbooks have had a sudden, meteoric rise; sales have surpassed all projections, and new launches have dominated much of the gadget press.