Best Prime Day Laptop Deals Available Right Now – CNET
Best Prime Day Laptop Deals Available Right Now - CNET
Amazon’s October Prime Day two-day shopping extravaganza is a week away. Though the official sale doesn’t start until Tuesday, Oct. 10, the deals have already begun, including a number of steep laptop discounts. And the savings aren’t limited to Amazon itself. There are competing sales at Best Buy and Walmart that can save you big money on a new laptop.
I’ve been reviewing laptops and tracking deals for CNET for years. As one of CNET’s laptop experts, I’ve hunted around for the biggest price breaks on laptops that are worth buying, and here are the best current laptop deals I’ve found. And when the official Prime Day sale starts next week, I’ll update this list with the latest laptop deals at Amazon and elsewhere.
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The MacBook Air with Apple’s M1 processor may be 3 years old, but it’s still a valuable member of the MacBook family. It’s the most affordable MacBook, and it’s even more affordable right now with its $100 discount. We’ve seen it dip to as low as $750 in the past, and a return to that all-time low isn’t out of the question when the Prime Day sale begins next week. The M1 processor has been surpassed by Apple’s M2 chip but still has more than enough oomph for the majority of what you’ll use the laptop for, whether it’s for school or work or home use. The M1 MacBook lacks the Touch Bar (which could be viewed as a positive), and has a 13.3-inch Retina display that’s only a smidgen smaller than the 13.6-inch panel you get with the newer M2 model.
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You can save big right now on the smallest MacBook Pro. This isn’t a previous model on sale but the latest M2 version. Sure, you might not enjoy the Touch Bar — it’s the last model to feature the poorly received, seldom-used strip above the keyboard — but the 13-inch MacBook Pro offers a great mix of power and portability at a great price.
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It’s thin and light and on sale. The LG Gram 16 is impressively compact for a 16-inch laptop, weighing just 2.62 pounds and measuring a mere 0.66 inches thick. And it’s a whopping $700 off. It features a previous-gen Intel chip, but the Core i7-1260P is a member of the midrange P series and should be plenty powerful for most users. (It has more raw processing power than an efficient U-series chip commonly found on thin-and-light laptops.) Plus, this Gram 16 model serves up a sufficient 16GB of RAM to help with performance, along with a roomy 1TB SSD. And the expansive 16-inch, 16:10 display boasts a crisp 2,560×1,600 resolution. You also get a 1080p webcam, two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a microSD card slot. We reviewed the preceding model based on the 11th-gen Core CPU and liked it.
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This Lenovo midrange two-in-one convertible laptop features an all-metal body and a 14-inch display powered by a Core i7-1355U CPU and featuring 16GB of RAM. The display has a fine 2.2K (2,240×1,400) resolution, is rated for an acceptable 300 nits of brightness and can be rotated 360 degrees into tablet mode.
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Dell’s latest 2-in-1 convertible is based on a 14-inch touch display with a 16:10 aspect ratio that gives you more vertical space than a widescreen 16:9 panel, for less scrolling through webpages and documents. Inside, you get an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U CPU to go with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. While it provides twice the solid-state storage capacity as the above Yoga 7i, its display has a lower, 1,920×1,200 resolution and is rated for only 250 nits.
