If you’re looking for a cheap, no-frills laptop to carry everywhere, the $200 HP Stream 11 is the one we’d recommend. But soon, there may be an alternative pick: the Lenovo IdeaPad 100S. Oh, we can’t ...

When the Asus Eee came out, the market was simple. There was only one tiny, cheap laptop so you knew which one was for you. That was less than a year ago, but things move quickly in the tech world.

When Intel announced the availability of its low-power chip, the Atom, at Computex in Taiwan this week, it signaled that the age of the cheap mini-notebook had finally arrived. Not bad for a product ...

Mini PCs tend to underperform next to similarly-priced tower PCs. Expect to pay a premium for one with decent gaming performance. Upgrade options for mini PCs are usually limited to storage and RAM, ...

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

It's been less than a year since Asus first sprinkled its Eee PCs with magical miniaturizing dust, yet these low-cost, diminutive laptops have already taken off like an F/A-18 catapulted from an ...

Making a small, cheap PC means compromises. Many of the earlier mini-notebooks made so many compromises to achieve a small size and a low price that they were ultimately disappointing. Dell’s £300 ...

Looking at the Stream Mini and Pavilion Mini desktops. Video by Jennifer Hahn. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—HP's cheap Stream laptops are decent for the price, but they'll disappoint you if you want to try ...