Toshiba waited a long time to enter the netbook market, but as the NB205 proves, taking some time to learn from your competitors can be a good thing. The NB205 offers everything we expect from a netbook, as well as some unexpected bonus features, and ...

As we discovered in our netbook upgrading feature, both RAM and hard drive are easily accessible, although the hard drive panel uses TORX-6 fasteners rather than the more common Phillips head screws found on the RAM compartment. Still, if you're ...

MSI's latest venture into the netbook market offers slightly faster performance than the rest of the netbooks we've tested with much longer battery life to boot, but the nine-cell battery that makes that possible sends the MSI Wind U123 into the ...

If you don't mind a bit of junk in the trunk, the Wind U123's nine-cell battery will fast win you over

With the latest crop of netbooks beginning to sport Intel's new Atom N280, which features a slightly higher clock speed (1.66GHz vs. 1.6GHz) and a faster front-side bus (667MHz vs. 533MHz), how well does a netbook built around the earlier Atom N270 ...

Samsung's NC10 netbook offers great battery life, solid construction, and good performance. And it's not a fingerprint magnet

The first word that comes to mind when you pick up HP's 2530p is "solid." From its heft, to its construction, to its scratch-resistant anodized aluminum display enclosure and palm rest, this notebook seems eminently rugged. HP claims that the 2530p ...

Included software lets you use the 2530p's webcam to take snapshots of business cards and transfer the info to Outlook

Asus's Eee PC kicked off the netbook craze in 2007, and now the grandmaster of small-and-shiny returns with its best Eee ever. The 1000HE combines the 901's extra-long battery life with the power and capacity of the 1002HA (which we reviewed in March) ...

While not as large or as comfortable as the keyboard on the HP Mini 1000, the chiclet keys on the 1000HE are a close second. Battery life is superb, too; we got more than five and a half hours on our standard full-screen video battery test-same as the ...

The latest in Asus’s ever-expanding line of Eee netbooks is a welcome addition to the fold, and much more to our liking than the 901 model we reviewed in December. Eschewing the previous model’s unremarkable white plastic exterior for a brushed ...

Stylish, high-performing netbook with a roomy HDD, and three USB ports

Still on the pricey side. Keyboard no match for the HP Mini 1000’s ;

More importantly, the 1002HA Asus sent us forgoes the pair of low-performance, ultra-low-capacity solid-state drives that bumped up the Eee 901’s price while wreaking havoc with its Photoshop performance (owing to the poor write speeds of cheap MLC ...

For the most part, the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is your standard netbook. It's small, lightweight, and sturdy and runs on Intel's Atom platform. We like that our review unit shipped with a 160GB 5,400rpm hard drive-as opposed to the small budget SSDs found ...

Nice bright matte screen, roomy hard drive, decent looks

Only two USB ports, and they're on opposite sides of the machine

We're also not thrilled by Lenovo's decision to ship this machine with just two USB ports instead of three, the standard on nearly every other netbook. Worse, the ports are on opposite sides of the case, so some external drives that require multiple ...

In many ways, the Acer Aspire One is like the little sibling of MSI's Wind. Besides sporting the same Intel Atom N270 processor running at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM, and Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics, the two netbooks share a similar look and feel. Read ...

Cheaper, with a larger HDD than most Netbooks

Touchpad can be indistinguishable

In our benchmarks, the similarities continued: The Aspire One performed nearly identically to the Wind in almost all of our tests, chugging through the Photoshop script in just 729 seconds, a second faster than the Wind. It also lasted a few minutes ...

Asus's Eee PC kick-started the netbook craze and remains the brand most associated with the category. Early iterations were praised for their low-cost Linux-based architecture, but lately Asus has ratcheted up its product line to compete with higher ...

Five hour battery life

Limited storage capacity, cramped keyboard, and slow benchmark results

Indeed, the 901 took more than twice as long to complete our Photoshop benchmark as the other two netbooks here. On the other hand, the 901's standard six-cell battery far outstripped the competition's three-cells, eking out more than five and a half ...

MSI has been moving into the notebook market in a big way over the past few years, with forays into business and gaming notebooks, and, this summer, netbooks, with the Wind U100. We have to say, we're impressed. Read on for the rest of the review!

Wider keyboard than most NetBooks

Larger notebook, need to spend a bit extra for the 6-cell battery

The corner hinges on the Wind are not quite as sturdy as the Eee PC's barrel hinge or the Aspire One's, but it's still solid. The matte screen is quite bright under AC power and readable at even 25 percent backlighting