Long before the first Asus Eee PC, OLPC XO Laptop, or even the Psion netbook, there were handheld PCs running DOS and Windows CE. They were popular with a small group of tech enthusiasts in the 90s ...

“What do you expect from an $80 netbook,” asks our friend Sascha of Netbook News? You may of course answer “Not much” but that would be cynical. After all, a box with a 7-inch screen, three USB ports ...

Before there were netbooks running Linux and Windows XP, there were handheld PCs, running EPOC or Windows CE software. They may not have been able to run full fledged desktop applications like Firefox ...

The NetBook Pro adopts the same hardware design, but fans of the earlier devices will immediately notice the replacement of Psion’s old EPOC operating system with Microsoft’s Windows CE .NET. The EPOC ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ah, Windows CE aka “Compact Embedded”. It was the heart of Windows Mobile and for a long time, ...

A name in danger of extinction (or perhaps more accurately: imprisonment), the netbook has gained a new ally in the form of Dell, Inc. The netbook maker indirectly lent a hand to the Save the Netbooks ...