We raved about the MSI Wind, now Lenovo comes along and spoils our shopping plans with a 1Kg mini-notebook for the same price. Take a look at the specs.

Red Hat is taking a second stab at the embedded systems market.

Enough wind to cool a laptop, claim boffins.

Cooling boosted by as much as 250 per cent in Perdue experiments.

Dutch researcher predicts seismic shift in next-gen power networks.

MSI loooks like joining ASUS with a netbook powered by Intel's Atom n280 chip.

The notebook giant is planning an ultra low-cost portable to join the ranks of the Eee PC and MSI Wind (though not necessarily a direct competitor, they say). Check out our pic, and first impressions.

Ludicrously big batteries will arrive this year for laptops, says MSI, at the launch of its Wind U100+ netbook and ultra-thin X340 laptop.

The Eee PC1000H grows an inch, packs twice the battery power of its predecessor and might finally have a keyboard worth typing on. But is $699 too much to pay?

Prophecy is a hazardous art when it comes to computers. We do know what's coming to the PC in the near future however, so read on to see the year ahead

Not unlike the villain from Terminator 2, future batteries could solely consist of liquid metal, providing massive storage capabilities for energy alternatives such as wind farms and solar cells.

Asus’s new Atom-based Eee PC 901 is set to launch in June (say overseas rumours), and may feature Bluetooth.

Blowing in the wind

If you have to migrate anyway ….

Dell's Inspiron Mini 12 ups the ante in mini-notebooks, with a 12in screen from $999.

AMD is opening the champers after its six-core AMD Opteron processor based system was named as the world's most powerful supercomputer.

"Microsoft is not building a Zune-specific phone" – you can't get much clearer than that

Apple's iPhone is being upstaged by the outfit's second generation Coldplaying Ipod.

We’ve just seen the demo, and frankly, we’re blown away. High resolution beach-scapes, ultra-realistic water ripples, wind blowing through the tall grass. Wait, is that...?

Researchers find way to foil disk encryption.