Mini laptops: what do you call them?

Everyone knows the Eee PC has spawned a flood of similar low-cost, portable laptops designed primarily for surfing the Web. But what do you call them? I don't think anyone's nailed the right term for them yet.

Intel calls them 'nettops', which if you don't separate the ts sounds like a chain of newsagents in the north of England (to me).

Our chums in the US call them subnotebooks, but in the UK the term laptop is more common than notebook, so we generally call them mini laptops.

Webtops? Interbooks? WannabEees? My Little Laptop? Share your best thoughts...

Well.. they're small... so i say "CrotchTops"

There's a logic to that, Psion's were called Palmtops
(Which btw, is the form factor I think we should be getting back to. All these Eee-type computers are great, but they won't go in your pocket = portability fail.)

Referring to the class as a whole, I have been (without thinking about it) referring to them as sub-notebooks. Because I think of a "notebook" as a "small laptop". These things are even smaller, so sub-notebook = smaller than small laptop.

I'm not too keen on term "netbook" as it looses it's significance if you've got your "netbook" somewhere that you can't get on the internet (Also, they're copying the name from Psion, for me the netbook is a Series 7 variant).

'Netbook' sounds like some kind of uber-boring NBA derivative.

Good old Psion. I miss my 3mx.

But I call these Eee-types (pun intended) sub-notebooks.

I'm going with Eee-type. Much like people call vacuum cleaners Hoovers or P.A systems Tannoys.

(Best recent Tannoy product)

It's an interesting point you bring up. Are Hoovers called Hoovers because the Hoover was the most well-know in this country or what?

What about Eee-ish? Eee-sque? Eeesque?

I have been calling them Notepads.