Small, cheap, and surprisingly powerful, netbooks have made portability affordable. But with so many models flooding the market, choosing a mini-notebook that fits your needs isn’t as easy as it should be. Here’s a look at the upcoming crop, and the advice you need to buy wisely.
The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful [...]

DON’T CALL the VAIO P a netbook. After all, it starts at $900 with a 60GB hard drive and gets as high as $1499 with a 128GB solid-state drive (our review unit had a 64GB SSD; its configuration sells for $1199). In addition, this machine runs Windows Vista Home Basic instead of Windows XP or [...]

MICHAEL VANA WAS skeptical when he saw the pop-up from “Antivirus 2009” on his screen. The former Northwest Airlines avionics technician, who lives in Schaumburg, Illinois, guessed that the dire warning of a system infection was fake, but when he clicked the X to close the window, it expanded to fill his screen. To get [...]

Similar to Windows Vista, Microsoft’s upcoming operating system will be available in several editions, each with a different feature set.
IF YOU THOUGHT that Microsoft had learned all its lessons with Windows Vista, you’ll soon be disappointed. Although the Windows 7 beta, which was released to the public in mid-January, is receiving mostly positive reviews, revelations [...]