If anything, 2008 was the year of the mini-notebook. After ASUS debuted its Eee PC 701 in October 2007, other PC makers were quick to follow with their own models. The category proved so popular that, of all the notebooks that we reviewed in 2008, nearly 20 percent of them were mini-notebooks. As of late October, these systems, also known as netbooks, accounted for five of the ten best-selling computers on Amazon.com.
And now nearly every major notebook vendor has a mini to call its own. But mini-notebooks weren’t the only story of 2008. Thin was in for traditional ultraportables, starting with the 0.76-inch-thin MacBook Air in January, followed quickly by the equally svelte—and fully featured—Lenovo ThinkPad X300. Some of our favorite notebooks, The Best Notebooks of 2008Linked by LT Hacker
