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 ...

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.

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 ...

Some critics seem to think that UMPC (ultra mobile PCs) are just a fad. Wrong. They’re here to stay. In Ultraportable laptops: Their rise and possible fall, David Haskin reports that “While pundits ...

If you set it up correctly, you can easily play everything from AAA games to indie games using a mini PC. Here's how to do ...

Apple, by and large, likes to float above price wars. When people tell Macbook users that they could get a great Windows laptop for half the price, they just sort of stare at them. It’s like telling ...

AMD is targeting what Intel calls the netbook market, but not completely. Here's a tale of semantic fun on Friday night. When I read Brooke Crothers report on how AMD wasn't entering the netbook ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...