It seems that these days the distinction between laptop and netbook no longer exists. If you don’t know the difference is basically that a laptop or notebook has a CD or DVD drive and a netbook dose not. Today though everything is being called a laptop.
Having said that the smallest laptop is made by UMID and is called the mbook. It has a 4.8 inch touchscreen with 1024 x 600 resolution, 1.1GHz or 1.3GHz Intel Atom processor and 1GB of memory, but the Flash-based storage provided ranges between 8GB and 32GB.
It also has Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, 3G and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. With a Mini-USB 2.0, Micro SD slot and Mobile sim-card slot it’s versatile as well. The battery life is an impressive 6 hours.
Here’s a video from Youtube on the UMID mbook:
There are other laptop/netbooks out there that are a little larger but still small enough to be ultra portable and easier to use and view. Asus makes several with 7″ screens, the Sony VAIO Lifestyle series has an 8″ screen and Acer, HP and ASUS all have several models with 8.9″ screens.
There you have it the UMID mbook is the smallest laptop made today although it probably is not the best if you are looking for an ultra small laptop.
