It is competitive market everyday comes new things in the market. You can search on ebay and amazon and compare the price and features they provide.
But now Asus x series laptop is cheapest laptop which comes with windows 8.
I'm not sure about cheapest, but my Fujitsu Windows 8 laptop runs Spore on the highest graphics smoothly and without lag. However, to run it smoothly on any computer, you can try reducing graphic quality, playing in browser-mode(not in full screen), and close any other running programs. Hope this helps.
it can depend, just find the cheapest one you can that still meets ALL of the system requirements for the sims 3 in order for the game to work smoothly.
The cheapest laptop that you would buy to run Steam games would be a Samsung Rc512-S02 laptop.
Most computers from the past 10 years run Minecraft smoothly. If it isn't running smoothly just change the graphics from fancy to fast and change your render distance.
Yes, you can run Microsoft Flight Simulator X on a Windows 7 laptop as long as the laptop meets system requirements.
Virtual machine
The most likely reason is that your laptop does not meet the system requirements for Windows XP.
Yes
open CD drive insert windows vista disk and run it
There are many versions of Windows available for laptops today. Most laptops run on the latest versions of Windows (currently Windows 8). Many laptops also run on Windows 7.
I think it does
No, your laptop does not need 4GB of RAM to run Windows 8. The basic specifications for Windows 8 is 2GB for 64-bit or 1 GB for 32-bit. 4GB would help with the processor but would not be necessary.