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Netbooks are the darling of the computer market right now. Definitely the fastest growing segment are those little, lightweight units, easily carried for hours by the girliest of men.
Seriously, the netbook is something that is going to reach down into levels of the population never thought of before, not only because of its diminutive size, [...]

A story on Betanews states that Google is going to have Chrome soon found on Sony Vaio computers, as delivered.  The beginning of a move by Google to get Chrome into the mainstream may or may not come with this, as Sony is not really a major supplier of computers. A really big deal would [...]

Sure, I know that title makes little sense, but that conveys the strange tale of the AsusTek company, one that was just recognized as building the very best consumer motherboards, and a maker of various other computer parts, both for the retail, and the OEM, spaces.
And that is the problem. Asus could be much larger [...]

Because not enough people purchased (and kept) their low cost PCs from Wal-Mart, and other vendors, long time PC manufacturer Everex has closed operations in the United States.
Everex was a company with a presence in America since 1983, and at one time, was not known for inexpensive PCs, but general purpose PCs.  Having worked on [...]

So says the New York Times. The story is that longtime security company McAfee, not a close second, in the market share calculations, is tired of playing second fiddle to industry leader Symantec, who holds a bit over half of the market.
As I stated yesterday, Symantec has built its base largely upon the name recognition [...]

By extending the availability of Windows XP until October 2010, it admits that Windows 7 on a netbook doesn’t really cut the mustard, and at the same time that the company has nothing to replace XP for that platform yet. It means that the lowliest version of Windows 7 is not a winner, and still [...]

Also, for those afraid of, or not inclined to, building their own, PC Magazine has a couple of good choices.
Lots of people have gaming on the brain, but not much green in the wallet. For these people something other than the latest mega-dollar AlienWare or Dell XPS will have to do. The choices given in [...]