When it comes to shopping for the best cheap laptops, you can do a lot for less than $1,000. (Heck, even $500 cuts some mustard nowadays.) But you'll probably have to make some compromises along the ...

As part of Best Buy's “Techtober” sales event, I stumbled upon the best laptop deal I've seen in a while. It's for $450 off the Acer Swift 16 AI (8/10, WIRED Recommends), costing $800. Now, I'm not ...