Microsoft showed Windows 8 to developers today at its BUILD conference. Windows 8 is a dramatic change from what we’re used to seeing with the operating system. Microsoft is taking advantage of the soaring popularity of mobile and web applications and touch interfaces in Windows 8. You may be wondering what kind of hardware you will need in order to run Windows 8. While Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft’s Windows division, didn’t come out and say every somewhat modern PC can run Windows 8, he did give that impression.

According to a new rumor, you might be able to get your hands on a Google Chrome netbook for just $20 per month. Previously, Google’s CR-48 Chromebook had been available to select few as a beta program. An anonymous source has come forward to say we’ll be seeing the Chromebook for sale in June or more »

What: Google CR-48 Chromebook Where: on the go Why: thin, light, simple Buy: not so fast What When I travel for business, I loathe lugging around my 18lb laptop. I pull it out at the home office to look busy but the rest of the time, it sits in my wheeled bag. This past trip, more »

Okay, so there’s a lot of Android tablets and smartphones to be found at CES, to the point where it’s almost getting commonplace. NEC has something a bit different: an Android netbook. Like the dual-screen Android tablet, this Android netbook is just a prototype. Unlike other Android netbooks I’ve seen, this doesn’t try to shoehorn more »

Assuming this information is accurate, and we have no reason to believe it is not considering where it is coming from (macles) — Acer is going to be launching the Aspire One 522 netbook with a dual-core 1GHz AMD C-50 Ontario processor. Other specs look to include a 10.1 inch display with a 1280 x more »

Just the other day we mentioned the slick looking Dell Inspiron Duo convertible netbook and sadly at that time there was nothing given as to when it will begin shipping. That said, the device was and remains available for pre-order by way of the Microsoft Store for $549. Well, flash forward a few days and more »

Dell has made good on it’s promise by putting the Inspiron Duo up for sale before the holidays. Here we are just a few days before Thanksgiving, and we can finally pre-order the netbook that converts to a tablet. The only issue is we don’t know when those pre-orders will arrive. If you simply can’t more »

Just a few weeks ago Jolicloud CEO Tariq Krim teased us with the possibility of a Jolicloud netbook. At the time the only ideas we had about the netbook were that it would run Jolicloud, would be affordably priced and that it should come out sometime soon. Today we have a smaller launch window, complete more »

The tablet market might be getting a bit crowded soon with all those Android tablets trying to compete with the iPad. Along with all those tablets, we keep hearing comments that the netbook market is dying. The Dell Inspiron looks to combine those two products with the Dell Inspiron Duo which has a new video more »

In today’s Wall Street Journal in an article titled, “A Fall Guide: How to Pick Your Next Computer” the venerable Walt Mossberg suggests a few machines worth considering. The only item bolded and the first recommendation is Apple’s iPad tablet computer. Could the iPad take a bigger bit out of computer sales than just netbooks? more »