From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

The price war among Netbooks and mini-notebooks is hot at the moment, especially leading up to Christmas. We source the best prices from around the net this week.

Asus add yet another netbook to their range: the swivel hinged T91 Eee PC and HP offer the Mini 5101 netbook for professionals. We investigate the perfect netbook for busy professionals

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.

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.

Manufacturers have been given the big heave-ho and told that all future netbooks must shape up to new Windows 7 OS specifications or be left on the netbook scrapheap

Linux fans rejoice! Netbooks have boosted Linux adoption worldwide, except inside the US. What's with the American market?

If you're wondering if a netbook is the perfect laptop for you, ask yourself this: will you want to work or play on your new laptop for hours at a time whilst viewing a screen 10 inches in size?

Spanish firm iUnika has shown off four new netbooks at a Free Knowledge Foundation sponsored LibreMeeting in Madrid, including a couple of super eco-friendly models sporting solar panels and made from bioplastic.

The summary of Microsoft's plans for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and netbooks, as announced at Computex

The battle between portable devices is heating up.

Netbooks to get Windows 7, but Windows Embedded earmarked for 'consumerinternet devices'

We recently reported that the Taiwanese rumour mill was buzzing with whispers about Foxconn building a netbook for Apple, but now Apple's COO, Tim Cook, seems to have pooh-poohed the whole notion of netbooks, calling them "junky".

This is what every kid dreams about - a way to combine homework AND procrastination in a device you can pop in a backpack.

It's not widely available, but with this battery life on offer the BenQ Joybook Lite U101 should be

AMD'S PAT Moorhead, VP of advanced marketing, claims that wee netbooks are not really worth the effort.

The announcement of a pair of 2GHz dual-core processors from ARM has drawn speculation over a new chip war with Intel in the netbook space, despite the fact that products based on the chips are not likely to appear for at least another year.

The HP Mini 2140 injects a little prestige back into netbooks, blending style with decent performance and respectable specs.