Still in concept stage the Razer Switchblade will enter the hand-held gaming market with a fully-fledged 1.70 GHz Atom Z690 processor at its heart.

With netbooks turning into notbooks thanks to the popularity of tablets, Intel has unleashed its “Ultrabook” concept as a “new class of mobile computer”.

Claiming a major technical breakthrough, Intel has developed a 3D transistor allowing increased density and performance.

The new generation of Intel's Atom platform that was codenamed Oak Trail is now shipping and will being appearing in devices next month.

Toshiba is making a push for the multimedia market with its latest netbook. The company has also introduced a second model with a more conventional configuration.

Acer’s dual-core Atom powered netbook also sports dual operating systems, the now duelling Windows 7 Starter and Android OS 2.1, both vying for your attention with an easy way to go from Android to Win 7 without rebooting, an extra boost from DDR3 capability, restored mouse buttons and more, all to make you one happy Acer netbook user.

Increasingly today’s modern homes are gaining computing infrastructure to rival many small businesses. Just as a company should consider a server for file and print serving, backups, a web site and centralised e-mail, so too families might like to consider the same. However, what's right? Windows or Linux?

Is it just me, or are netbooks becoming as expensive as notebooks? The "high performance" Eee PC 1201N is a case in point.

Small cars tend to get larger with successive models, with the result that manufacturers end up introducing new model names to recapture the vacated space. Does Lenovo's 12in IdeaPad SA12 suggest a similar process is happening with netbooks?

As predicted, the hackintosh community found a way of running Mac OS X 10.6.2 on netbooks after the update broke compatibility with Atom CPUs.