Chip vendors Qualcomm and Nvidia have thrown their support behind the Windows 7 OS for netbooks, announcing efforts to bring better graphics and continuous 3G connectivity to the devices. Qualcomm on ...

It's a refurb, so a 90-day warranty applies, but it satisfies my three basic requirements: decent price, Windows 7, and a long-lasting battery. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...

Although Microsoft has reportedly dropped the ludicrous idea of limiting its Win 7 OS to running three main apps, starter version or no, my own testing of Win 7 RC on a couple of netbooks shows it to ...

Acer has unveiled a new version of its Aspire One netbook running Windows 7 and plans to put it on sale simultaneously with the new operating system’s debut next week. The Aspire One D250 has a ...

The Windows 7/netbook connection depends on whether netbook users will be willing to pay more for the Windows 7 experience Microsoft must perform a tricky balancing act as it tries to keep Windows on ...

ViewSonic, like virtually every netbook maker on the face of the earth, is introducing a new Windows 7 version of its 10 inch mini-laptop. The VNB102 with Windows 7 Starter Edition will hit the ...

Update: You can find a list of other Windows 7 netbooks and notebooks here. Asus has officially announced its Windows 7 lineup, and that includes an updated version ...

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference brought forth the unsurprising news that Microsoft wants to take the netbook market back from Linux and XP, and to dominate it instead with Windows 7.

Ultrathin, ultraportable, or Netbook? There are often big differences among these categories though you wouldn't always know it by looking at them. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems ...

Microsoft has said that any version of Windows 7 will run on a netbook. We try it with Windows 7 Ultimate. Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company ...

As we get closer to the promised release date of Windows 7 (we’ll see if it really does appear in October), both hype and tempers rise. Add in the netbook question, which forced Microsoft to keep XP ...

Windows 7 cuts almost a third off the battery life of some netbooks shipping today with Windows XP, several recent reviews and user reports say. Laptop magazine reported in its blog on Monday that ...