Budget Laptops

Two-minute Review Sometimes all you need is a competent, decent, and inexpensive laptop with the right screen size for schoolwork, basic media editing, or simply browsing the Web. The ASUS VivoBook L203MA...

The ASUS VivoBook F510QA provides a great deal of a bang for your budget buck, offering a roomy display and comfortable keyboard packed in a stylish, sleek package. On the inside, it...

The Acer Aspire 5 A515-54-30BQ is a big-screen budget laptop that delivers a roomy 15.6-inch display, a comfortable backlit keyboard, and horsepower for general productivity work – and even a bit more....

Chromebook prices seem to be competing with mainstream notebooks these days, but we have some that are hitting an all-time low. Case in point: The Lenovo 100E Chromebook (81QB000AUS) lists for a...

Chromebooks are oddly placed in the laptop marketplace. Apart from acting as an easy access to Google Chrome, their target is simple and singular: surfing the web. For that, they are good...

Sometimes what you need is a well-designed, competent, and not too-expensive laptop with decent features for schoolwork, accomplish basic work, or simply surfing the web on the go. The ASUS E200HA-UB02-GD checks all...

The Chromebook category has evolved over the past two years, with some models selling cheaply while others bump up that price to add one or two unique features, here and there. The...

The Acer Premium R11, a convertible-hybrid Chromebook running on Google’s Chrome OS, offers an inexpensive alternative to the traditional PC experience. If Windows is a must-have for your projects, this might not...

The Acer Aspire E Series has always been a solid line of laptops, especially for value hunters, and the Acer Aspire E5-553-T2XN is no exception. This entry level desktop-replacement model has 8GB...

There’s always a thin line between machines you use for work and play. When it comes to the former, the Acer Aspire TC-780-UR11 suffices as an affordable tower desktop that can handle everything...

Simple, durable and reliable. Is the ultimate definition of a laptop meant for a small business, sole proprietorship, media consumption or even college. The HP 15-AY103DX offers that, and does so with...

The ASUS L402SA is the hallmark of a value laptop, offering a useful set of features and god hardware for a fair price. It does a fine job as a general-use notebook...

Chromebooks are now center stage; and, the 2017 Samsung Chromebook Pro makes a compelling case for “premium” chromebooks. It combines the strengths of a laptop, like a responsive 12-inch QHD touch display, a...

The Acer A315-24P-R7VH is part of the Aspire 3 line of budget laptops, that are designed for usrs looking for affordalbe daily productivity laptops that are easy to carry around. In a...

The budget laptop market has never been an easy one to navigate. There are plenty of cheap laptops that ring attractive price tags, but for this year, the Asus VivoBook 14 (F1402ZA-AB31...

The SGIN laptop may not be as popular as, let’s say, the Asus VivoBook or Acer Aspire, but it has been around for a couple of years now. SGIN offers budget laptops...

The Asus VivoBook 15 X515 is very affordable and, like some other low-priced notebooks from Asus, manages to deliver a premium look that we normally see in notebooks twice the price. But...

The Acer Aspire 1 A115-32-C96U is a super-affordable laptop that rarely misses a beat with non-intensive tasks, from email and word processing to streaming the latest box set and surfing the web....

It’s important to be smart and deliberate about your choices when shopping for a laptop in the best laptop under-$500 range, since, realistically you’ll need to make some compromises. That doesn’t mean...

The new Acer Aspire 5 A515-56-347N arrives with a lot of expectations, as its sibling the Acer Aspire 5 A515-56-32DK has been the best budget laptop around, owning a spot on our...