Mini PCs have always been a kind of niche market, though Apple has done well with its Mac Mini. They're not a bad idea if you ...

Toshiba on Thursday upped the capacity of its hard drive line for mini-notebooks, tablet PCs and consumer electronics. Toshiba's Storage Device Division boosted the capacity of its slim, ...

Some critics seem to think that UMPC (ultra mobile PCs) are just a fad. Wrong. They’re here to stay. In Ultraportable laptops: Their rise and possible fall, David Haskin reports that “While pundits ...

Palm-sized power for pros.

Like many of us [AnotherMaker] is a fan of the classic Forrest Mims electronics books, specifically, the Engineer’s Mini-Notebook series. They were great sources of inspiration, but at the time, he ...

Lenovo's IdeaCentre Mini x is a compact PC with efficient everyday performance, making it a good alternative to desktops and laptops alike.

Weighing in at about 2.5 pounds and featuring an 8.9-inch screen and near-full-size Qwerty keyboard, HP is hoping the pint-sized notebook will appeal to the education and commercial markets. HP ...

About the only way a guy my size can use a netbook is with one hand. Seriously, those things can be super tiny. But what do you think? How small is too small? Are Netbooks Too Small? ( polls) Results ...

Research firm IDC says that 30% of “consumer portable” computer sold in the EMEA region in the fourth quarter of 2008 were mini-laptops. EMEA covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Overall, 3.6 ...

If I could have any type of display panel in my laptop, it would be Mini LED. Sure, OLED is best at producing deep blacks and high contrast, but Mini LED is a powerful substitute. The potential for ...