As someone who travels from work to a home office, local events to tech expos abroad and from train to plane, I need a laptop that can handle my daily workloads without a hint of struggling while on the move. With this in mind, the Asus Chromebook CX15 doesn't cut it

But that's being unfair to this 15-inch budget machine. Not all laptops are meant to deliver peak speeds while playing the latest PC games or editing videos, and if they were, these machines would be a niche. That's where the Asus Chromebook CX15's true strength lies: its price.

For just $259/£249, this is a solid laptop that offers just enough power for scrolling through websites, answering emails, writing up documents and watching shows on. For my mother, who literally only uses a laptop to do these things, that's a steal.

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