Find out more about how we test and score products.“ The rise of the netbook brought along with it the nettop, a small computer using an Intel Atom processor that could fit in a desk drawer.

But while "top" will only monitor details like RAM and CPU usage and not network activity, there is a similar tool called "nettop," which, as its name implies, is geared toward network monitoring.

Here's the Foxconn NanoPC, a nettop that'll ship in two different versions. The AT-5250 and AT-5600 are based on the Intel Atom and AMD Brazos platforms, respectively, and neither consumes over 24 ...

Of course, the real meat in this particular nettop is the NVIDIA Ion chip, which deserves a little explanation. Nettops and netbooks have generally paired Intel's Atom processors with the company ...

It's no secret we love dedicated home theater PCs here at Lifehacker, but you're right, we've talked about so many different methods that these days, it can get a bit overwhelming. The problem is ...

Sapphire has been in the nettop business for quite some time with its Edge mini PCs but for some reason was sticking only to Intel Atom D525 CPU in combination with Nvidia's ION2 GPU (on the Edge ...

The company's latest WD TV Live nettop box is priced at only $100 and has a slightly different feature set than the existing $200 WD TV Live Hub. The cheaper unit sheds the 1TB internal hard drive ...

Giada's Slim-N20 is a Nettop computer designed with living-room entertainment in mind. Although it comes installed with a full operating system (mine came with Ubuntu 10.04 pre-installed), the lack of ...

During Cebit we had a chance to check out Zotac's latest addition to the ZBox line of nettops, the ZBox AD02 and Zbox AD02 Plus. Both systems are equipped with AMD's 1.6GHz E-350 APU with Radeon ...

You know what would be great? A nettop with many, many LCDs attached to it. I could monitor my network. I could read my documents. I could do a lot of things. These days, my old Pentium 3 with 1 ...

The nettop measures 9″ x 9″ x 2″ and comes with the Linutop Linux-based operating system, which is based on Ubuntu. It runs OpenOffice.org, Firefox, VLC, and other software. It sells for 340 ...

If a Nettop represents the most open option for its configurability and its access to the unfettered Web, and a PlayStation 3 offers the most powerful hardware with its Blu-ray drive and gaming ...