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, ...

Computing in 2026 looks different from what it did just a few years ago. While laptops remain a cornerstone of portable productivity, mini PCs have established a space of their own in portable ...

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 ...

A new mini-notebook design from Apple Inc. could use fast-booting flash memory instead of traditional hard discs, according to an analyst report. Substituting solid state memory for spinning discs ...

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

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...