Mostly under $500, web-centric Chromebooks can be superb budget-laptop values, capable of plenty for little money. Here's how to buy the right one for you, backed by our deep reviews of today's top ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Another wave of laptop computers running on Google’s Chrome operating system will be hitting stores this summer in the latest challenge to Microsoft’s dominant Windows franchise.

For years, Chromebooks have served as the loyal opposition to PCs. Google’s laptops offer many of the same Google services as you can find via the Web, but integrated into an inexpensive package for ...

I’ve been a hardcore PC gamer for about as long as I can remember. Yet in 2026, my only computing device is a Chromebook. Of course, I didn’t get here overnight. It began in 2020, when I decided to ...

A new report suggests Windows PCs don't just face a challenge from tablets and smartphones, but are increasingly under fire from within their own brand segment. Chromebooks, the web-based Google ...

Who wants to play full-power PC games on a Chromebook? At least a few people, presumably, since Google and its manufacturing partners have made “gaming Chromebooks” for a year or so. But with some ...

COMMENTARY: Chromebooks were supposed to usher in an era of efficient, web-based computing. Googlebooks are abandoning that ...

As Microsoft advances its AI PC efforts, Google has also risen to the challenge with its new Chromebook Plus notebooks. Acer's newly launched Chromebook Plus 514 is the company's first business-use ...

Windows PC owners now have 2 options from Google. “Over 15 years ago, we introduced the Chromebook, a laptop built for a ...