if you’re in the market for a laptop but want to spend money wisely, you’re in luck. Amazon’s Prime Day deals run on October 8 and 9, and you’ll find a number of our favorite laptops on sale. Not sure how to pick out which one is best for you? We have a complete guide to buying one, as well as guides to the Best Laptops, Best Cheap Laptops, Best MacBooks, and Best Chromebooks.
We test year-round and cross-checked all of these prices with third-party software. These are the best discounted machines available, from Windows models and Chromebooks to MacBooks. As always, you need an Amazon Prime membership to get the deal price, but you can sign up for a free trial and Prime offers plenty of perks.
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The M3-powered MacBook Air (7/10, WIRED Recommends) isn’t all that different than the M2 model, but it’s a great choice, specifically if you want a reliable laptop for everyday tasks and slightly more. It has an attractive 13.6-inch LCD screen and a notch with a 1080p webcam. Meanwhile, the M3 will give you a nice boost in performance compared to the original M1. You can also use it with two external displays, which is an upgrade from the single external display support with the older chips.
According to rumors, M4-powered MacBooks could be coming as soon as this month. But the MacBook Pro with M3 launched just a year ago—so it’s still a great option. It packs a brighter display with mini LED and a 120-Hz refresh rate, along with a 1080p webcam. It comes with plenty of ports too, including two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4, an HDMI, a MagSafe charging port, a high-impedance headphone jack, and an SD card slot. We recommend it if you’re looking for a MacBook Pro without spending $2,000 or more.
The Razer Blade 18 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) delivers raw power in a gorgeous build—complete with a huge 18-inch Mini LED display with a 300-Hz screen refresh rate and G-Sync compatibility. It also packs Nvidia’s RTX 4070 graphics card and a Thunderbolt 5 port for faster data transfer speeds.
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This is a solid 2-in-1 Chromebook that’s great for traveling. The 14-inch IPS LCD panel (with 1,920 X 1,200-pixel resolution) is sharp, the speakers sound decent and get surprisingly loud, and the Intel Core i3 delivers snappy performance. It doesn’t have the best battery life, but you’ll still get through a full workday on one charge.
This Chromebook (7/10, WIRED Recommends) holds the title of “Best Battery Life” in our guide to the Best Chromebooks. We got 10 to 11 hours of juice consistently. It does come with a few trade-offs. For example, it has a low-end MediaTek 520 processor and only 4 GB of RAM, so it struggles to keep up with certain tasks (including keeping more than a couple of tabs open at once). The display isn’t great either, and the 64 GB of storage is stifling. But if all you care about is not having to constantly plug it into a charger or breaking the bank, it’s a solid choice—especially at this price.
This is our favorite 15-inch budget laptop. It packs an Intel Core i5 (or AMD 5000 series chip), 8 GB of RAM, a 15.6-inch IPS display (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), and plenty of ports including an Ethernet, USB, USB-C, HDMI, and headphone jack. It also has a decent keyboard and, at 4 pounds, it’s super lightweight. It’s certainly great for most everyday tasks too.
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The Surface Pro (6/10, WIRED Review) is our favorite 2-in-1 Surface, but it is expensive. It performs well as a tablet, but we do recommend opting for the Flex Keyboard to make for an even more comfortable experience overall. We don’t suggest buying it for full price, though, so if you’ve been eyeing it for a while, then you should certainly snag it while it’s on sale.
The Acer Nitro V (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has been replaced in our guides by newer, fresher picks, but we still think it’s a great laptop. It’s not the highest-end gaming laptop out there, but it packs more than enough power to handle most games you can play on it. This version is more upgraded than the model we tested, with an Nvidia RTX 4050 GPU and a 144-Hz 1080p display.
