A number of smartbooks are floating around CES, and after spending much of the day looking at them, talking about them, and using them, several things are clear. Vendors are eager to exploit the power ...

There are two major trends in the netbook space today. On the one hand, PC makers are putting out ultraportable laptops with bigger screens and keyboards and faster processors. We’re talking 11 and 12 ...

Where Netbooks use an Intel Atom processor and, typically, Windows XP, the forthcoming smartbooks will feature ARM chip designs and Linux. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Smartbooks are beginning a new year assault on the PC market with the launch on Monday of a range of ...

Are smartbooks going to fizzle like MIDs and UMPCs, take over the market like smartphones and netbooks or just confuse things for a while? Would an Apple tablet change any of that? After Microsoft ...

For the past 12 months or so, we’ve heard a lot of talk about mini-laptops running ARM-based processors. These so-called “smartbooks” feature low power ARM processors which means that while they can’t ...

Qualcomm Inc. CEO Paul Jacobs recently told Bloomberg News the makers of a new small computer known as "smartbooks" will use his company's Snapdragon chip for the new device that's expected to start ...

Quick question—what's smaller than a netbook, bigger than a smartphone, and doesn't conform to Intel's definition of a MID (Mobile Internet Device?) If you guessed "smartbooks," give yourself a pat on ...

The netbook craze is still going strong with researcher IDC estimating that worldwide shipments could grow 90% to 22 million by the end of the year. The success has some manufacturers wondering: Would ...

Microsoft doesn’t plan to offer a version of Windows for so-called “smartbooks,” leaving the space open to Linux, Google’s Android and other operating systems. Smartbooks are a new class of device ...