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Round two of Amazon’s Prime Day event is now underway, and there are still plenty of excellent deals out there. So if you didn’t quite find what you were looking for, you’ve got some time. Those deals include low prices on new laptops for school, work, gaming, content creation or entertainment. And make no mistake: Prime Day really is an excellent time to buy a laptop, potentially saving you hundreds of dollars.
Amazon isn’t the only retailer dropping prices on laptops right now, either. Best Buy, Walmart and other stores have competing sales going and even PC makers like Dell, Acer and HP offer discounts when buying directly from their sites too. One thing you should know when it comes to Amazon’s sales, though: For Prime-exclusive deals on Prime Day, you need to be an Amazon Prime subscriber ($139 a year). There is a way around it, though.
As one of CNET’s PC experts, I’ve scanned the current sales and dropped some of the best deals I’ve found so far below. These are laptops I wouldn’t hesitate to buy for myself or recommend to friends or family (depending on their individual needs, of course). We’ll keep updating this list as older deals expire and new ones drop, so check back for the latest offers.
Best Prime Day deals on laptops
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Most PC-makers have decent entry-level aka budget gaming laptop options. Dell sits at the top of the list for us with its G15 and G16 models for their mix of features, design and performance at more affordable prices, particularly when they’re on sale. For Prime Day, this Dell G15 is a solid midrange gamer with an Intel Core i7-12700H, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB solid-state drive for storage. And to help smooth out gameplay, the full-HD, 15.6-inch display has a 120Hz refresh rate. It’s normally $1,200, but the Prime Day price is $999.
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The 2020 M1 MacBook Air is Apple’s least expensive laptop… and it’s still $1,000. For Prime Day, though, Amazon has it for only $750. That’s as low as it goes for this excellent little laptop. This configuration has 256GB of storage and 8GB of memory, so if your computing needs stretch beyond the everyday for school or the home office, this might feel limiting. But as an entry-level MacBook, it’s pretty great.
Read our Apple MacBook Air M1 (Late 2020) review.
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