When I started writing about netbooks nearly 2 years ago, the category was fairly easy to define. Netbooks were small, cheap computers. It doesn’t really matter whether you call them netbooks, mini-laptops or something else. What distinguishes these little guys from the vast majority of computers is size and price. It’s not like you couldn’t find a $400 laptop a…

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[/caption] While the Acer Aspire One 751h and Gateway LT3103u both have 11.6 inch displays, which makes them larger than your average netbook, they also have slow processors and low price tags, which means they have more in common with your average netbook than with a fuller featured 13 inch or larger notebook. Tech Report has taken a detailed look…

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The Gateway LT3100 series of laptops sport 12 inch displays and underpowered processors. But there are a few things setting them apart from most netbooks. First, the Gateway LT3100 packs an AMD Athlon 64 L110 CPU and ATI Radeon X1270 graphics instead of Intel’s Atom or VIA’s Nano or C7-M platforms. Second, the Gateway machines ship with Windows Vista instead…

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Gateway’s LT3100 series notebooks are a bit larger than typical netbooks, but they pack 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel displays which help me foregive the extra size. The other thing that sets the LT3100 apart from pretty much every netbook on the market is the fact that it ships with an AMD Athlon L110 64 bit processor and ATI…

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