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If you can’t stretch to the Samsung N110, the 1005HA makes an excellent lower-cost alternative

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

Superb build quality, battery life and usability – quite simply the best netbook around

A good quality netbook pipped at the post by its own stablemates.

Since we saw the HP Mini for our huge netbook roundup in October, a new 6-cell battery has been released.

It’s lovely to look at, with a full size keyboard and glorious screen. See why the Benq Joybook Lite U121 is one of the best rated in our latest netbook roundup

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.

If there's one thing that our latest netbook group test has left us hankering for, it's an intrepid manufacturer to come in and nail the netbook formula for $650 or less.

So, the last big name has fallen. HP gave out in April 2008, and both Dell and Toshiba's resistance crumbled by the autumn. But it's taken Sony until the middle of 2009 to produce what it confesses to be a netbook, the VAIO Mini W Series.