UPDATE: Oct. 11, 2023, 12:00 p.m. EDT This post has been updated to reflect the latest deals on laptops during Amazon Prime Big Deal Days as well as competing events at Best Buy and Walmart.
Amazon is good at a lot of things — fast deliveries, making cheap smart home devices, creating neighborhood surveillance networks — but it's never been great at putting laptops on sale. The retail giant's listings tend to be rife with sketchy third-party sellers, inflated prices, and discontinued models, making it tough to distinguish the "must-buys" from the "too-good-to-be-trues." And historically, competitors have offered better, less misleading deals on top brands like Apple, HP, Acer, Microsoft, Lenovo, Dell, and ASUS.
This Prime Day, we do have to admit that Amazon is doing better than normal with more legit listings (not from third-party sellers) and more legit discounts. However, there still are only a handful of laptop deals we recommend adding to your Amazon cart during its Prime Big Deal Days sale (aka Prime Day 2). Much better ones can be found at Best Buy, which is currently hosting a 48-hour Flash Sale (directly overlapping with Prime Day) amidst a monthlong holiday kickoff event. Walmart also has some good cheap laptop options on sale during its Deals Holiday Kickoff event.
Read on for a highly selective list of the very best laptop deals available at different retailers in the lead-up to Prime Big Deal Days, all of which we've verified by cross-checking pricing and model numbers with their manufacturer. (FYI: This list does not include Prime Day deals on gaming laptops, which we've rounded up separately.)
Note: All newly added deals are marked with a ✨, while deals with a 🔥 have dropped to an all-time low price. Amazon's exclusive invite-only deals are marked with a 📨. Deals with a strikeout were either sold out or expired at the time of writing.
Prime Day laptop deals under $500
Why we like it
Remember how we said Amazon stepped it up a little this Prime Day on laptop deals? This is one of those deals. This is the lowest price we've seen on this model of the Acer Aspire 3 (AMD Ryzen 5 7520U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) and it's got really great specs for its price point.
More laptop deals under $500
Acer Aspire 1 (Intel Celeron N4500, 4GB RAM, 128GB eMMC) — $189.99
$229.99(save $40) 🔥✨Asus Vivobook, 14-inch (Intel Core i3, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) — $249.99
$429.99(save $180)Lenovo IdeaPad 1i, 15.6-inch (Intel Core i3, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $329
$549.99(save $220.99)Acer Aspire 3 Spin 14 (Intel Core i3-N305, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) — $369.99
$439.99(save $70) ✨Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3i Chromebook (Intel Pentium Silver N6000, 8GB RAM, 64GB eMMC)— $299$479 (save 180)Acer Chromebook 317 (Intel Pentium Silver N6000, 8GB RAM, 64GB eMMC)— $299$499 (save $200)Acer Chromebook Vero 514 (Intel Core i3-1215U, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD)— $349.99$499.99 (save $150)
Prime Day laptop deals under $1,000
Why we like it
It's nothing new, but here's one great laptop deal you will find on Amazon ahead of Prime Big Deal Days: The Mashable Choice Award-winning M1 MacBook Air from late 2020 has been clinging to a record-low price of $749.99 there ever since its flagship Prime Day sale in July. (That's 25% off its $999 MSRP, which is a big discount for a MacBook.) If it happens to sell out there or get more expensive, Best Buy was matching this price at the time of writing.
More laptop deals under $1,000
Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (AMD Ryzen 5 5625C, 8GB RAM, 128GB eMMC)— $549.99$699.99 (save $150)Lenovo Yoga 7 (AMD Ryzen 5 7535U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD)— $549.99$749.99 (save $200) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionDell Inspiron 2-in-1, 16-inch (AMD Ryzen 5 7530U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $649
$849(save $200) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription ✨Microsoft Surface Laptop 4, 13.5-inch (AMD Ryzen 5 4680U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $699.99
$999.99(save $300) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionSamsung Galaxy Book3 360, 13.3-inch (Intel Core i5-1340P, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $699.99
$999.99(save $300) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionDell Inspiron 14 7435 2-in-1 (AMD Ryzen 7 7730U, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD)— $749.99$899.99 (save $150) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionLenovo Yoga 7i (Intel Core i7-1355U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $749.99
$999.99(save $250) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription ✨Samsung Galaxy Book3 360, 15.6-inch (Intel Core i7-1360P, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $774.99
$999.99(save $225) ✨Acer Aspire 5 (Intel i7-1355U, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD)— $899.99$999.99 (save $100)Apple MacBook Air, 13.6-inch (Apple M2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $899
$1,099(save $200)LG gram 14 2in1 (Intel Core i5-1340P, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $899.99
$1,299.99(save $400) 🔥✨Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (Intel Core i5-1235U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $999.99
$1,299.99(save $300) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionSamsung Galaxy Book3 360, 15.6-inch (Intel 13th Gen Evo Core i7-1360P, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $999.99
$1,549.99(save $550) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionLG gram 15 (Intel Core i7-1360P, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $999.99
$1,499.99(save $500) 🔥✨
Prime Day laptop deals under $1,500
Why we like it
The September 2023 release of the Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 makes Best Buy's sale price on the 2021 version look even better: the second generation model with a similar configuration (16GB RAM and 512GB SSD) retails for $1,999.99 compared to this model's $1,399.99. Though the 2023 model does beat this 2021 model with an Intel Core i7 processor over the i5, it's still a beast of a Windows 11 machine — Mashable's Alex Perry referred to it as "near perfect." You'll obviously still get the laptop-to-tablet versatility of the hinge, a refresh rate of up to 120Hz, Dolby Vision, and stylus compatibility.
More laptop deals under $1,500
Apple MacBook Pro, 13.3-inch (Apple M2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $1,049
$1,299(save $250)Dell XPS 15 9530 (Intel Core i7-13700H, Intel Arc A370M, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)— $1,299.99$1,499.99 (save $200) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionMicrosoft Surface Pro 9 (Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $1,299.99
$1,599.99(save $200) + My Best Buy members save an additional $50✨LG gram 16 (Intel Core i7-1360P, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,299.99
$1,699.99(save $400) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptionLG gram 17 (Intel Core i7-1360P, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,399.99
$1,799.99(save $400) + free 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription
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