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Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment Netbooks have been enjoying the spotlight of late - but are they suitable for the workplace? This may not have been possible just two years ago but today's netbooks - neat, light and small enough to tuck... [02 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Netbooks can run Windows 7 with little problem, and it is likely that the 64bit version of Windows 7 will constitute a larger proportion of installs, so making better use of available, cheap memory resources. [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - the latest PCs from Acer to Samsung
Photo New touchscreen desktop panels and laptops designed to take advantage of Windows 7's touch-sensitive capabilities have appeared, while existing netbooks and laptops have also been kitted out with the OS to get a... [26 Oct 2009]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment The systems in question have run the gamut from netbooks and an Atom-based net-top, through to several variations of corporate and consumer notebooks, a couple of branded consumer and corporate desktops, and up to a... [23 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet Well, Microsoft has said it's aiming to bring Windows 7 to everything from high-end multitouch devices to low-end hardware including netbooks, with the aim of making its appeal as broad as possible. I remember that -... [20 Oct 2009]
Dell-Customized Mobility Solutions
White Paper From notebooks, netbooks, and handheld computers to WiFi, smartphones, and mobile broadband, there really is no end to the number of devices now available for a wide variety of business applications. The marketplace is... [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Though Acorn Computers produced its last desktop machine in 1998, today one of its former subsidiaries, ARM Holdings, designs the chips found in most mobile phones and some netbooks, bringing ARM revenues of £298.9m... [07 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News The company has just announced Flash Player 10.1 which will let users view Flash video and play Flash games on smartphones, netbooks and other mobile hardware. Flash is ubiquitous on the desktop - now Adobe is hoping it... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo With a bewildering array of netbooks on sale, September saw silicon.com produce the definitive guide to the best machines around. To discover which netbooks should be in your stocking this Christmas,... [02 Oct 2009]
Warren East
AS Profile East has been CEO since 2001, presiding over a period of impressive growth in chip shipments as mobiles, smartphones, netbooks and other embedded electronics continue to proliferate. Chipmaker ARM is the powerhouse... [29 Sep 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Finnish software architect Torvalds initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel which formed the basis of operating systems driving desktop and server technology, as well as being embedded in a significant amount of devices... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Google has had another interesting year as the company announced it was developing an operating system, initially for netbooks, called Chrome. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters top 10 for the sixth... [29 Sep 2009]
Dell ditches the wires with Latitude Z for business
News Lenovo recently introduced a new touchscreen interface for its tablet, and Asus has its own for its popular Eee PC netbooks and touchscreen desktop called TouchGate. Dell has announced its Latitude Z laptop aimed at... [29 Sep 2009]
The PC is past it: Computing power is everywhere, says Intel
News While there are consumer gadgets such as netbooks, portable gaming devices and web-enabled handhelds, there are also devices that are mission-critical in the medical field, features that are driving change in the... [24 Sep 2009]
Mobile computing keeping PC shipments afloat
News The better-than-anticipated demand is being driven mostly by laptops and netbooks in China and the US, according to Gartner research director George Shiffler. Despite earlier, more dire predictions, PC sales are now... [24 Sep 2009]
