Intel's Atom platform may provide the backbone of today's netbooks, but with rivals emerging, Intel could find itself playing a smaller part in the future, as players such as Nvidia's Tegra take hold.

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Since the release of the Eee PC 701, the 'Notebook' has dominated. Easy to use, cheap and able to be left on the coffee table next to the remote, Notebooks are true appliance computing. The choice of which one to buy comes down to personal preference, but it's hard not to prefer those with the best usability. Our rundown of your options covers their performance, battery life, and design.

As one of Australia's few locally designed netbooks, the Kogan Agora lives up to some lofty netbook ideals, but it’s sadly ho-hum in too many aspects to be seen as a real netbook contender.

Neither cheap nor beautiful, MSI’s Atom powered nettop is sadly second among equals.

It may be lovely, but Sony’s under-powered P-series costs too much and features features poor battery life.

Nvidia’s latest graphics cards and chips throw down the gauntlet to Intel and AMD. Go behind the scenes with this guide to the big technologies including PhysX, CUDA, and games like Far Cry 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky.

The unexpected star of the Asus show earlier this week was the Eee Keyboard, an Atom-based media centre built into a wafer-thin keyboard.

With netbooks a big favourite with laptop buyers over the last 12 months, we count down the five OSes that could be the friendliest for mini laptops

The single biggest reason for existing laptop owners to upgrade to Windows 7 is something unique to this release: it actually requires less horsepower than Vista. That's good news for netbook owners!

The Asus mini desktop looks like taking shape on June 3. It's looks vaguely like a Wii, but runs Linux.

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Not the most attractive, but this Eee PC defies expectations. Another machine that's going onto our netbook shopping shortlist

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