The current sweet spot for a reliable laptop to handle average work, home office or school tasks is between $700 and $800 and a reasonable model for creative work or gaming is $1,000 and up.

These are our favorite HP laptops from the company's OmniBook, Pavilion, Envy, Spectre and Transcend lines -- all tested and reviewed by CNET editors. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with ...

Think again. Whether you're looking to get a pile of work done, binge-watch your favorite shows, play some of the best PC games or simply surf the web, it's hard to go wrong with an affordable ...

Here’s how it works. Even though it's a relatively quiet time of the year in terms of sales events, there are still some solid laptop deals available now at a variety of retailers. I've picked ...

While Minecraft's Mob Votes have been retired in 2024, Mojang should strive to implement some leftover Mob Vote creatures into the game ...

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources ...

Here’s how it works. I've seen a handful of quality new laptop deals this week even though we're in a quieter time of the year when it comes to shopping events. Some retailers have taken the ...

Best 14-inch Dell's XPS 14 (9440) is all-new for 2024, with a minimalist design, 3.2K OLED display, optional discrete NVIDIA Laptop GPU, and Intel Core Ultra H-series CPUs with NPU for boosted AI ...

When is the next Minecraft update? The next Minecraft update will be on the way soon, following the Pale Garden and Bundles of Bravery updates of 2024. We've been looking into when we can expect ...