More than just a new coat of paint, the new Wind adds mobility with 3G. While the design and features don't look as cutting edge as they once did, this is still a great netbook

MSI’s Wind Top AE1900 takes on the touchscreen nettop competition, but singularly fails to excite.

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

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

It resembles the excellent MSI Wind, but the inclusion of Linux-based gOS operating system makes this one super-cheap piece of hardware

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

Dell’s long-awaited netbook has much to recommend it, but it’s far from the perfect product.

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.

Fantastic looks but a high price for what is, essentially, the same old netbook under the hood.

Love or hate them, the Netbook is here to stay in 2009. We take a look at five new models: some are contenders and others are likely to be quickly forgotten.

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

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics has been given to three men behind fibre-optics and digital photography..

Intel has released a beta version of its Linux-based Moblin 2.0 operating system designed for netbooks and nettops..

Asus' new Eee PC 1004dn steps up in style and features, boasting a DVD-writer, expresscard slot and scrabble-tile keyboard

After the disappointment - perceived or otherwise - of Windows Vista, many are pinning their hopes on a revival with Windows 7. And from our first impressions of the pre-beta code, that's exactly what they can expect.

No one would have guessed that violent computer games could actually hold the key to saving lives rather than snuffing them out, until a team from Durham University postulated otherwise.

Stylish, sophisticated and super-portable: this is the netbook you’ll have to hide from your friends.