New Product Survey: Netbooks

We're pleased to be able to announce the arrival of four new tests to launch our brand-new Product Suvey of netbook computers.

This new slimmed-down breed of laptop is increasingly popular as a second computer, with manufacturers cutting back on screen size and processing power to give the longest possible battery life out on the road.

While many of these computers look similar, we've put them through paces and found a whole variety of features out there.

We try to answer some of your key questions--flash memory or a hard drive? XP or Linux?-- in the introduction to our survey, before taking these four new netbooks through our labs:

• Acer Aspire One 150 Bb

• Asus EeePC 901

• Hercules eCAFE EC-800-H20G

• Medion Akoya Mini E1210