Tired of reading news about computers with 9 to 12 inch displays? Here’s a roundup of some of the latest posts from mobiputing for the smartphone geek in you:

Windows Phone 7 Series

Microsoft unveiled a ton of details about its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series mobile OS. Here are some details:

• Windows Phone 7 Series: Limited multitasking, no memory card support
• Windows Phone Marketplace: The only place to get Windows Phone 7 apps (officially)
• Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7 app launch partners, development platform details

And if you can’t wait for Windows Phone 7 Series devices to start hitting the streets later this year, Microsoft has released the developer tools for the platform, complete with an emulator — which has already been extracted from the developer tools for examination.You can also try out a Windows Phone 7 Series theme for current Windows Mobile phones.

Google Android

Here are a few of the niftiest Android apps I tested this week:

• Wuzhenhua Player is a media player that can handle WMV, FLV, Xvid, and other video formats
• xScope: Web browser with tabbed browsing, innovative 1-finger zoom feature
• Opera Mini 5 beta web browser now available for Android
• Amazon Kindle app, video on demand coming to Android?

iPhone and iPod touch

And here are a few new and old iPhone apps.

• AOL Lifestream for Android, iPhone: It’s like Friendfeed for your phone
• TeamViewer launches remote desktop app for the iPhone (run Windows on your iPhone… sorta)
• Public Radio Player 2.1 for the iPhone is an alternative/supplement to the NPR News app

OK, technically a few of those stories are more than a week old. But this is my first roundup, so cut me some slack.

Intel officially introduced the world to its next-generation Intel Atom N450 processor yesterday, and that apparently opened the floodgates, because over the last 48 hours, we’ve seen reports of more than a dozen new computer models. We’ll certainly be seeing far more announcements in the weeks leading up to CES in January, but here’s a roundup of all the new netbook models I’ve seen announced or leaked over the last two days:

• Dell Inspiron Mini 10: Dell may not be giving its new netbooks a new model number, but the next-generation version will sport a new processor, longer run time, and a number of configuration options including an HD display, TV tuner, and GPS.
• Asus Eee PC 1005PE: Asus was the first company to get its new Atom N450-powered netbooks into the hands of reviewers, and we have a roundup of half a dozen reviews. The verdict? Better battery life, the same performance we’ve come to expect from a netbook.
• Asus Eee PC 1001P, 1005P: While Asus is pushing the 1005PE pretty hard, there are at least two more 10-inch models on the way.
• Fujitsu LifeBook MH380: This model is rounder, browner, and has a higher resolution display than Fujitsu’s earlier 10 inch netbooks.
• MSI Wind U130, U135, U140, U160: MSI has 4, count ‘em, 4 new models in the pipeline. Unfortunately the company’s not making it all that clear how they differ from one another. Spec-wise, they’re all pretty similar, but there seem to be a few different case designs.
• Classmate PC: Intel’s Classmate PC reference design is aimed at students. This version looks like a minor update to the previously released 10 inch Classmate. The main difference? The new Atom chipset should lead to better battery life.
• HP Mini 210: HP hasn’t officially announced any new Pine Trail netbooks yet, but a few leaked promo shots and some premature product listings at an online retailer are giving us a clue what HP is planning.
• Samsung N150, NB30: Samsung hasn’t introduced any Atom N450-equipped netbooks yet, but two new models popped up on the FCC web site recently, and I’d be surprised if they didn’t have next-generation Atom processors.

By my count, that makes 14 new models so far. Intel promises as many as 80 by Pine Trail-toting machines by early next year.

Left: HP Mini 110 / Right: HP Mini 1000

HP, Acer, and pretty much every netbook maker on the planet are busy putting out new models in time for the summer. And that means tech journalists are busy reviewing them. Here are a few of the latest netbook reviews from around the web:

Laptop Magazine reviews the HP Mini 110

As expected, the HP Mini 110 is both thicker and heavier than the HP Mini 1000. But it also has a full sized VGA port, and a faster, higher capacity hard drive than you’ll find in the HP Mini 1000. The netbook also still has an awkward touchpad with buttons on the left and right sides instead of below the trackpad.

GadgetMix reviews the Acer Aspire One AO751H

I’m still reluctant to call anything with a screen larger than 10.2 inches a netbook, but I’m starting to think I’m in the minority. Anyway, whether it’s a netbook or not, the Acer Aspire One AO751H with an 11.6 inch display is certainly a thin, light, and energy efficient laptop thanks to its Intel Atom Z520 processor. GadgetMix reports that the pokey processor makes the laptop feel much slower than most netbooks with faster Intel Atom N270 CPUs. While the system performance was mediocre at best, the computer did get a decent 5.5 hours of battery life.

Laptop Magazine reivews the Acer Aspire One AOD250

The Acer Aspire One AOD250 is the second 10 inch netbook from Acer, and it’s thinner and lighter than the original Aspire One D150. But it still runs between about $300 and $350 and comes with an optional 6 cell battery which should be good for around 6 hours of run time. Unlike Acer’s 8.9 inch models (and the HP Mini 110), the touchpad buttons are placed below the trackpad, not on the left and right.

Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular posts from Liliputing over the past week:

• Deal of the Day: 3K Razorbook 400 Windows CE netbook for $155
  Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  The 3K Razorbook 400 isn’t going to win any awards for speed, performance, or design. This little netbook has a 400MHz ARM CPU, a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, 4GB of flash memory and just 128MB of RAM. But it’s cheap.How cheap? Normally it costs a bit over $200, but right now TheNerds.net has a model in stock that is selling for $154.99.
• Mike Arrington’s CrunchPad leaps toward reality – do you care?
  Posted on Friday, April 10th, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington may have failed in his quest to develop a $200 portable internet tablet. But it’s starting to look like he’s come pretty darn close. Last night some images of a nearly production quality prototype leaked out, and both TechCrunch and CrunchGear have confirmed that these images are the real deal. So it looks like Arrington did manage to bring together the resources to build a cheap tablet.
• Lenovo launches 3G enabled netbooks, plus a 12 inch model
  Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 – Comments: (16)

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  Lenovo is launching two new models in the Ideapad Sxx series. The IdeaPad S10-2 is a 10 inch netbook like the original S10, but with an integrated 3G modem. As rumored, Lenovo is also introducing a new 12 inch model called the IdeaPad S12, which will also have built in 3G support.Both netbooks laptops will ship with the Splashtop quick start interface that will give users access to a web browser, instant messenger, and a handful of other apps without waiting for Windows to boot.

• Acer unveils Ion-based nettop, confirms new netbooks
  Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 – Comments: (12)
  Acer held a press event in New Jersey this evening where the company unveiled about 20 new products, including several items we’ve been hearing about for weeks. At the top of my list are the AspireRevo nettop, which is a small form factor desktop PC with an Intel Atom CPU and an NVIDIA GPU and Acer’s new 10.1 inch and 11.6 inch Aspire One mini-laptops.
• HP dv2 reviewed: With great power comes less than stellar battery life
  Posted on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 – Comments: (12)
  The folks at Laptop Magazine have followed up yesterday’s first impressions post on the HP dv2 with a detailed review. The verdict? It’s definitely bigger, more powerful, and more expensive than the typical netbook. But that extra power takes… well, extra power. And the standard battery dies after about 2.5 hours of use.Still, if you find the typical netbook’s 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive and integrated graphics to be limiting, the HP dv2 might be worth a look.
• HP Mini 2140 high res display now available
  Posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 – Comments: (19)
  As expected, HP has begun offering HP Mini 2140 customers the choice of a higher resolution, 1366 x 768 pixel display. Up until this week, the only display option for this netbook was a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 576 pixel screen. The higher resolution display costs just $35 more, and makes the HP Mini 2140 one of the few netbooks to come with a sharp enough display to show true 720p HD video.

Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular posts from Liliputing over the past week:

• Ubuntu 9.04 Beta comes with improved netbook support
  Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 – Comments: (18)
  The next full version of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu is due out in April. But you can already download and try out a beta version of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope if you’re willing to put up with the possibility of finding a few bugs. One of the most exciting changes in Ubuntu 9.04 is improved support for a number of netbooks, particularly models with Intel Atom processors.
• Asus Eee PC 1000HE review
  Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009 – Comments: (18)
  The Eee PC 1000HE is the next generation of the popular Asus Eee PC 1000H. At first glance, the two computers are almost identical. They have the same chassis, display, hard drive, and RAM. But there are a few minor changes that make the Eee PC 1000HE worth checking out. First, it has a marginally faster 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 CPU (the 1000H had a 1.6GHz Atom N270.
• Microsoft: 96% of netbooks use Windows
  Posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 – Comments: (35)
  Is the writing on the wall for Linux netbooks? While most mini-laptops are capable of running a number of Linux distributions quite well, it looks like an increasing number of netbooks are shipping with Windows preloaded. Some of the earliest netbooks like the Asus Eee PC 701 may have shipped with Linux, but in a recent blog post, Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc says that Windows went from having a 10% netbook market share during the first half of 2008 to a 96% market share in February, 2009.
• Intel: Netbooks are limited, please keep buying pricier laptops
  Posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 – Comments: (16)
  Intel is in a funny position when it comes to netbooks. The company’s low power Atom processors have proven hugely popular. They show up in mini-laptops from Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, MSI, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony and other major computer makers. And netbooks and Intel Atom processors represent growth areas for computer companies at a time when the global recession is generally taking a heavy toll on tech industry sales.
• Liliputing birthday bash: Liliputing turns 1 and we’re throwing a party
  Posted on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 – Comments: (25)

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  While I’ve been writing about netbooks since I picked up my first Asus Eee PC 701 in November, 2007, Liliputing was born in April of 2008. And so on this one year anniversary I’ve decided to throw a month-long birthday party.Over the course of April, I’ll be holding a number of contests to give away goodies.

• Asus Eee PC T91 convertible tablet hits the FCC web site
  Posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 – Comments: (28)
  It looks like the Asus Eee PC  T91 convertible touchscreen tablet is one step closer to launching in the US. Asus has filed a series of documents related to the T91 with the FCC. Unfortunately there’s nothing really interesting like close up shots of the motherboard or a user manual. But you can stare at the FCC label in all its glory.

Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular posts from Liliputing over the past week:

• Original Acer Aspire One hard drives crash at the sound of Bono’s voice
  Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  OK, the headline might be a bit of an exaggeration. But just a bit. While playing U2 songs on your 8.9 inch Acer Aspire One won’t guarantee a hard drive failure, it turns out that some Aspire One owners figured out the hard way that one of the computer’s two speakers is situated just a bit too close to the hard drive.
• Asus launches Eee PC 1002H
  Posted on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  In an ongoing effort to confuse the heck out of us, Asus has launched yet another netbook with a name that’s strikingly similar to an existing model. The Eee PC 1002H is almost exactly like the Eee PC 1002HA (full review), but it has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N2.0 CPU instead of a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, and features the new Asus chiclet-style keyboard.
• LG Whatchamacallit: Coming up with a new word for netbook
  Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009 – Comments: (16)
  LG is running a contest to find a description for its X120 mini-laptop than “netbook.” It’s not clear whether the company is trying to avoid a lawsuit from trademark-holder Psion, or just looking for a whimsical way to make “LG X120″ sound a bit sexier.Either way, the company is giving away 3 LG X120 laptops to the contestants who come up with the most popular, most creative, and most stylish names.
• Asus Eee PC 1004DN with DVD drive due out in April
  Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  The Asus Eee PC 1004DN is the first Asus netbook to sport an optical disc drive. Heck, it’s one of the first netbooks from any company to make room for a disc drive. While I’d originally heard that this model wasn’t scheduled for release in the US anytimesoon, Asus filed documents related to the 1004DN with the FCC in February, which would indicate that the company does plan to release the computer here.
• Samsung N110 product page is live
  Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 – Comments: (23)

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  Samsung has posted a product page for the N110 netbook. First announced earlier this week, the N110 is an incremental update to the popular Samsung NC10. It’s about the same size and shape as its predecessor, but the case has rounded corners and the screen is glossy. Samsung also claims that the 6 cell battery is good for up to 9.5 hours, which is about two hours longer than the NC10.

• Samsung launches N310 netbook line
  Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  The Samsung N110 isn’t the only new mini-laptop Samsung’s announcing today. The company also unveiled a new line of netbooks bearing the N310 name. These little computers are a much bigger departure from Samsung’s earlier netbook (the NC10) than the N110. They feature a dramatically redesigned chassis, a new keyboard that looks a lot like the chiclet-style keyboard found on the Asus Eee PC 1000HE, and a new lower resolution display.

Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular posts from Liliputing over the past week:

• HP Mini 2140 6 cell battery is chunky but powerful
  Posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2009 – Comments: (9)
  HP offers a choice of a 3 cell or 6 cell battery for the HP Mini 2140 netbook. The 3 cell battery fits flush with the unit and provides up to 4 hours of run time. The 6 cell battery sticks out from the bottom an dmakes the computer bulkier and heavier. But it more than doubles the run time. HP suggests the 6 cell battery will last for up to 8.5 hours if you have a hard drive, or up to 10 hours if you opt for the super-expensive 80GB SSD option.
• Intel to Psion: Nuh uh, you did NOT sell netbooks after 2003
  Posted on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  And the shouting match between Intel and Psion continues. Psion, if you’ll remember is the company behind a series of ahead-of-their-time clamshell mini-computers. The last few products in Psion’s handheld PC lineup were called Netbooks. Late last year the company started threatening legal action to retailers, computer makers, and bloggers who were using the word “netbook” to refer to computers that hadn’t been produced by Psion.
• Acer developing an 11.6 inch Aspire One laptop?
  Posted on Friday, March 20th, 2009 – Comments: (18)
  Is Acer planning to build an Aspire One laptop with an 11.6 inch display? That’s what Macles is reporting, and the site does have a pretty good track record of breaking Acer-related netbook news. If the rumor is true, the new Aspire One would have an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It would also have an Intel Atom Z530 CPU and integrated GMA 500 graphics with hardware support for decode HD video.
• Zoostorm launches Freedom netbook
  Posted on Monday, March 16th, 2009 – Comments: (9)
  Zoostorm is launching the new Freedom netbook in the UK. The mini-laptop sports a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, an 8GB SSD, and 512MB of RAM which can be upgraded to 1GB.The netbook also has 2 USB ports, a VGA port, headphone and mic jacks, a 0.3MP webcam, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and Ethernet. The company claims the included 4 cell, 4400mAh battery is good for 4.5 hours.
• Lenovo unveils Pocket Yoga touchscreen ultraportable
  Posted on Monday, March 16th, 2009 – Comments: (8)
  Update: It turns out this was a concept design that Lenovo put out two years ago. It never went into production.Lenovo has posted a series of images of an upcoming portable device called the Pocket Yoga on Flickr. This appears to be the same mystery device that was first spotted last week.At first glance, the Pocket Yoga looks an awful lot like the Sony Vaio P.
• HP Mini 1000 6 cell battery unboxed, photographed
  Posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2009 – Comments: (10)
  HP sure does know how to ship computers and components in pretty boxes.  The HP Mini 1000 comes in a sleek looking black box with a pretty picture of the netbook on the top and information about the computer on the side. And the HP Mini 1000 extended, 6 cell battery comes in a box that’s just as pretty. But as you can see from the picture above, things look a bit different once you open the box.

Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular posts from Liliputing over the past week:

• MSI Wind U115 tested, dissected in Polish
  Posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 – Comments: (19)
  The MSI Wind U115 isn’t making the rounds in the US yet, but it looks like some European tech sites are getting their hands on pre-release versions of the netbook. Yesterday we got a battery life report from Germany. And it looks like Polish tech site nvision got some hands on time with a U115 earlier this month.The MSI Wind U115 has a few things that set it apart from other netbooks.
• Microsoft not throwing weight behind Windows CE for netbooks
  Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 – Comments: (16)
  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 and the early part of this decade, but they sort of fizzled out long before the netbook craze started.These old proto-netbooks offered stellar battery life and instant on/off capabilities, but ran stripped down operating systems with stripped down apps like web browsers and office suites.
• MSI Wind U115 appears to provide ridiculously long battery life
  Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 – Comments: (14)
  When MSI showed off the upcoming Wind U115 netbook at CES in January with a placard promising 10.5 hours of battery life,  I was a bit skeptical. But according to preliminary tests at Eee PC.de, MSI might actually have been modest.Johannes at Eee PC.de is in the process of running a battery test. Around 4 hours in, the battery meter showed his battery power had dropped to just 79% and he had an estimated 10 hours and 39 minutes of power to go.
• Is Apple working on a touchscreen netbook for 2009?
  Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 – Comments: (20)
  Pundits have been insisting for months that Apple has to produce a netbook. At a time when overall computer sales are shrinking, netbook shipments are growing. Budget machines look awfully attractive in the midst of a recession. But Apple has never been known for making budget machines. In fact, quite the opposite. And so those pundits have been predicting that Apple stands to lose a whole lot of money if it doesn’t produce something that appeals to the same price-conscious shoppers that have been picking up netbooks in droves.
• Gigabyte Touch Note M1028 passes through the FCC
  Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 – Comments: (20)
  Just in case you were worried that Gigabyte’s latest touchscreen tablet-style netbook wouldn’t be available in the US, the FCC has been kind enough to post some picutres of the Gigabyte Touch Note M1028, as well as a series of test results and a complete user manual (PDF link). For some reason the manual refers to the machine as the M1028 CafeBook instead of Touch Note M1028.
• Aspire One hack: Adding an eSATA port
  Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 – Comments: (20)
  Some netbook hackers are happy when they’ve figured out how to replace a hard drive with a solid state disk, or add a touchscreen to their mini-laptops. And then there’s tnkgrl Mobile. For her latest feat of mobile, she added an eSATA port to her Acer Aspire, just above the netbook’s second SD card slot (the one that’s used to extend the main memory on Linux versions of the Aspire One).

Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular posts from Liliputing over the past week:

• Asus launches Eee PC 1008HA ultra-thin netbook
  Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 – Comments: (22)
  Asus officially launched the Eee PC 1008HA at CeBIT today. The netbook is just 1 inch thick and weighs 2.4 pounds, which is pretty light by Asus 10 inch netbook standards.The mini-laptop, formerly known as the Eee PC Shell almost looks more like an MSI netbook than an Asus product. Like MSI’s Wind series, the lid on the Eee PC 1000HA slips down behind the case of the computer when you open it up, giving the computer a slightly smaller profile.
• Microsoft working on netbook specific version of Office?
  Posted on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 – Comments: (27)
  Microsoft is reportedly thinking of ways to develop a version of its Office suite for netbooks. According to Network World, Microsoft business division chief Stephen Elop implied that the goal is to come up with a low cost version of Office that provides limited functionality. After all, who wants to pay hundreds of dollars for a version of Microsoft Office that will run on a $300 laptop?
• Linux loses more netbook market share
  Posted on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 – Comments: (28)
  A year and a half ago you would have been hard pressed to find a netbook (defined as a 10 inch or small mini-laptop for around $400) that came with Windows XP. The original Asus Eee PC 701, Everex Cloudbook, and other early netbooks all ran Linux. Today, 90% of all mini-laptops sold in the US are running Windows. That’s according to a report from NPD Group that looked at netbook sales in November, December, and January.
• Would you pay extra to run Windows 7 Home Premium on a netbook?
  Posted on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 – Comments: (29)
  Each and every version of Windows 7 will be capable of running on low cost, low power netbooks. But the cheapest version of Windows 7 that netbook makers will be able to license is Windows 7 Starter Edition, which will have several restrictions. For instance, users will only be able to run up to three programs at a time (applications like antivirus software that can be minimized to the system tray don’t count).
• How reading the fine print could save you $5,000
  Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 – Comments: (15)
  Late last year Radio Shack, Acer, and AT&T teamed up to offer customers a chance to pick up an Aspire One netbook for $99 when they sign up for a 2 year wireless broadband service contract. This sort of deal is common in Europe and other parts of the world, but kind of new in the US. So while customers are used to dealing with monthly bandwidth caps on their cellphone data plans (after all, what are the odds that you’re really going to do 5GB of surfing on a phone with a 2 inch display anyway), customers aren’t as used to the idea of having restrictive bandwidth caps on their computer usage.
• Evidence of Google Android powered netbooks grows
  Posted on Friday, March 6th, 2009 – Comments: (16)
  It’s starting to look like we will be seeing netbooks running Google’s Android operating system pretty soon. While Google initially pushed the operating system for cellphones, it can run at least as well on low power computers like netbooks and offers many of the features you’d expect from a desktop operating system including a built in web browser and support for third party applications.

Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular posts from Liliputing over the past week:

• Asus Eee PC 1000HE, Samsung NC10 compared
  Posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 – Comments: (10)
  Over the second half of 2008, virtually every major computer maker, (and some companies you probably didn’t know made computer), released a netbook. While Acer and Asus topped the sales charts, most of the machines had very similar specs: 9 or 10 9inch displays, Intel Atom CPUs, 160GB hard drives, and so on. Things are starting to change this year as companies begin offering features like touchscreens, GPS, and a wider choice of processors.
• Like Dell, Intel is challenging Psion’s trademark of “netbook”
  Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 – Comments: (15)
  Dell wasn’t the only company to challenge Psion’s netbook trademark in court last week. It turns out that Intel is also asking courts to cancel Psion’s trademark, declare that Intel has not been infringing on the trademark and prevent Psion from asserting any rights to the term again in the future.The Intel complaint makes some of the same allegations as the Dell challenge.
• 1 in 3 Dell netbooks runs Ubuntu Linux
  Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 – Comments: (18)
  There’s been a lot of talk over the last few months about how Windows has been crushing Linux on netbooks. When Asus launched the Eee PC 701 back in 2007, it ran Xandros Linux and open source enthusiasts started proclaiming that netbooks would help Linux finally make it as a mainstream consumer-oriented operating system. It’s cheaper for computer makers to deploy and it offers much of the same functionality users have come to expect from Windows or OS X.
• Psion demands a jury trial in netbook trademark case
  Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2009 – Comments: (12)
  It looks like we’re in for what could be a long and protracted legal battle over the right to use the word “netbook” for commerce purposes. Because it doesn’t look like either Intel or Psion are going to back down. In 2008, Intel, along with an enormous group of computer makers, retailers, journalists, bloggers, and consumers starting using the word to describe low cost ultraportable computers like the Asus Eee PC.
• Why netbooks, why now?
  Posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 – Comments: (11)
  I get asked all the time why netbooks are suddenly so popular. My usual response is this: Once upon a time if you wanted a light weight, ultraportable laptop, you had to pay a premium price and you’d still wind up with a machine that wasn’t as powerful as a cheaper full sized laptop. Now, instead of paying $1500, you can pay $400 and get a machine that’s likely smaller and lighter than anything you would have found a few years ago.
• Either netbooks are getting more like cellphones, or vice versa
  Posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 – Comments: (23)
  Most netbooks today are nothing but tiny computers. They have similar displays, keyboards, and components including CPUs, RAM, and hard drives or solid state storage. And most netbooks powered by Intel or VIA chips are capable of running Windows, Linux, or in some cases OS X.But a growing number of netbook makers are considering ARM-based processors, which use less power.