netbooks

How does one go about turning a netbook or portable computer into a virtual cellphone to get free(and legal) cell phone service? I don't use my cell phone that much and seldom ever have to deal with emergencies, so this seems like a good way to save money. I hear that some people do this, but...

So! My house got hit by lightning last week, and I've been off-line for 9 days due to that. It has made me consider a laptop or netbook, as that most likely would not have been plugged in and therefore not destroyed... although who knows. And before anyone asks, yes, I was plugged in to one of...

How come the new netbooks that companies are bringing out are getting better specked and much more expensive. The more expensive netbooks are now more expensive than cheap laptops. Once netbooks had a niche but now they are competing with laptops in terms of price and functionality. How come it...

I have this director who doesn't get on with blackberries. It's not that he's a technophobe - far from it. No, he just finds them too fiddly and itty bitty. What he want's is a bigger more capable palmtop. So he asked for a netbook. He want's to be able to read e-mails, browse the web and...