With laptops falling in price, premium netbooks rising in cost, and no-contract smartphones commanding $400 or more, the differences in price are not necessarily that great.

Today's laptops come with built-in wifi, so internet access is just as easy as with a netbook. Most laptops include a nice variety of ports, from FireWire and USB to SD cards and HD video output.

Which is best: a tablet, a netbook or a laptop? Desktop computers are an optimal combination of power, functionality and price to work and play online and off. But most people want to use their ...

Which is best: a tablet, a netbook or a laptop? Desktop computers are an optimal combination of power, functionality and price to work and play online and off. But most people want to use their ...

Netbooks sacrifice computing power for easy portability.What you don't get with a netbook: • Full resolution -- netbooks typically run at 1024x600, or half that of a normal laptop meaning lots ...

Which is best: a tablet, a netbook or a laptop? Desktop computers are an optimal combination of power, functionality and price to work and play online and off. But most people want to use their ...

Which is best: a tablet, a netbook or a laptop? Desktop computers are an optimal combination of power, functionality and price to work and play online and off. But most people want to use their ...

When Blam broke the news on Dell’s mini Inspiron, there was one he was stuck on: How to categorize it. Is it a subnotebook? A UMPC? A netbook? (Knowing the specs might have helped, but probably ...

Spec Shot: Laptop vs. Netbook Many netbooks trade the speedy onboard processors and roomy hard drives of a full-size laptop for online apps and small—but fast—solid state drives. The result?

What's in a name? Netbook vs. Mini-NotebookI’ve been saying for ages that I’m not a big fan of the term “netbook,” because it implies that tiny laptops like the Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind, or ...