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The truth about budget laptops is that if you're paying less then £500, you'll have to make some compromises. We've seen sub-£500 Best Buy models, but they're few and far between, so you need to be ...

Not all of the laptops ... cheap seats, the Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming Chromebook 16 is our top recommendation. For under $500, it's a really solid value. The Acer Chromebook 516 GE is another good ...

CNET’s editors have tested and reviewed many, many laptops from Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Dell and HP, so we can spot the best cheap laptops when we see them. Even Apple now has a bargain with the M1 ...

Among Windows laptops, the Lenovo Yoga 7i 14 (Gen 9) is currently the best cheap laptop we've tested. It has a newer processor and a good battery life, it doubles as a tablet, and it comes in at a ...

You can score a sweet gaming setup for less than $1,000. Check out our five favorite budget-friendly gaming laptops of 2024. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and ...

That’s a good amount of power right there ... especially if you play games. Don’t buy laptops with under 4GB of RAM or 128GB of SSD storage—though on a Chromebook or a budget Windows ...