Whether she's roaming the streets of Taiwan or burning up the phone lines, LAPTOP News Editor Joanna Stern is responsible for getting the scoop on the latest must-have mobile gadgets. Her Notebook Diva column appears weekly on laptopmag.com..

All Notebook Diva Columns

Call Off the Funeral, Long Live Netbooks
Some industry experts are ready to sign a "do not resuscitate" order for the netbook market, sending them to the morgue for placement in their small (yet cheap, and plastic) caskets. But those netbook...

Laptops Don't Have the Touch--Yet
On a recent flight from Taipei, I was greeted by a screen on the seatback in front of me. Just as other passengers did, I immediately started touching the display with my finger to move through the m...

Dear Della, Sexism Doesn't Sell Laptops
If a Web site were to be designed by a PC manufacturer to market its laptops and netbooks to men, what would it look like? Would the tips section be full of pointers on how to stream porn? Or how to c...

Down with 3-Cell Batteries: Netbooks Should Have 5+ Hours of Battery Life
I count AC adapters. When I walk into a Starbucks the first thing I check out is not the blend of the day, but the number (and the brand) of the laptops being used by the fellow java chuggers, along w...

Why MIDs Make No Sense
Accessing the Internet on a mobile device makes sense. But the category of Mobile Internet Devices (or MIDs) being pioneered by Intel makes as much sense as pushing the elevator button multiple times in hopes that it will arrive faster.

I'll Just Buy a Netbook: Why Netbooks 2.0 will do More than Cannibalize
Having covered netbooks since their birth and getting the little laptops into my hands before they hit the market, I am always thrown off kilter when I see one in the wild. But with close to 17 millio...