Say you asked the average notebook buyer the difference between a Dell Inspiron, Studio, Studio XPS, or Adamo. Or what separates the HP Pavilion from a Pavilion HDX or Envy.

About a year ago I brought home a rugged laptop for testing, which just so happened to have a touchscreen. My then four-year-old daughter, who had just started to become accustomed to touchpads (yes, ...

This is the part where I eat crow. Though I dismissed Android earlier this year for being an also-ran mobile operating system, saying that it would be a better fit for netbooks, Gartner now says that ...

While it's possible that Apple's hyped-beyond-belief tablet (now believed to be announcing in a January) will sport a stylus, I get the feeling that Steve Jobs & Co. believe that user interfaces h...

After meeting with several notebook manufacturers over the last few weeks, it seems pretty clear that there are two schools of thought when it comes to the post-netbook era. There are those forging ah...

When you pick up the new Zune HD, you can't help but be impressed by its brilliant OLED display, multitouch-friendly Web browser, and slick user interface. Not only does its software rival the iPod to...

The last few weeks, I've been really mad at my cable remote. For some unknown reason, the DVR controls just stopped working. So, I can't pause live TV (a real help when you have small children). As a ...

You've probably seen the latest ad. It's the unflappable Bill Kurtis, riding in a motorcycle sidecar, extolling the virtues of a netbook with integrated AT&T mobile broadband. It's a cute, relativ...

Someone forgot to tell Wal-Mart it's not Black Friday. Yesterday we posted a review of a 17-inch Toshiba notebook with a price you usually don't see until the annual tradition of holiday human trampling.