The already crowded laptop market has recently seen a new class of entrants.  The new products belong to a segment called budget thin-and-lights, or CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) laptops if you listen to Intel.  Meant to sit between the super low-price netbooks and high-dollar ultraportables, like the MacBook Air, these new notebooks (which lack optical drives) are aimed at students and frequent travelers who want an affordable and light laptop, but need something more full-sized and full-powered than a netbook.

The iPaq was one of the last big introductions from Compaq before it merged with HP.  It was made fun of because its name sounded too much like Apple’s iMac, but the iPaq actually grew into quite a diverse family of gadgets.

The Always Innovating Touch Book has many people in the technology business excited, including us.  However, the idea of a tablet that docks onto a keyboard is not as groundbreaking as it first seems.  Case in point, I present you the Compaq TC1000 Tablet PC and its successor the HP Compaq TC1100.

Vivienne Tam revealed an HP Special Edition notebook at her Fashion Week show.  Is this our first glimpse of HP’s next-generation netbook?  Read on after the jump.

Around a year ago, Asus created the soon to be dubbed “netbook” market with its diminutive Eee PC.  The Eee was a surprise hit and spawned many imitators.  Pretty soon, it seemed like everyone and their mother had a subnotebook device in their product pipeline.  Some of those products have been hits, while others have been misses.  With all these new models from the likes of HP, MSI, Acer and soon to be joined by Dell and Lenovo, is there really a market for all these devices?  Or is this …