9 Prime Day Laptop Deals: Best Prices on Surface, Acer, Asus and more – CNET

Amazon Prime Day has arrived and the laptop deals are in full swing. There’s a plethora of promotions to choose from right now, meaning it’s a great time to grab a new machine. Whether you’re a student getting ready for school, a gamer raring to play or just looking for something to browse on, there’s something on sale for you. 

There are sales on laptops with Intel’s current chip family, the 12th-gen Core products code-named Alder Lake, and if you want something with an AMD chip, there are deals for you as well. With deals available at Amazon, as well as competing sales at Best Buy and Newegg, you’ve got plenty of choice when it comes to where to buy, too.

Check out the options below, which are regularly updated as sales expire and new deals emerge.

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Microsoft

For Prime Day, you can score the 13.5-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 with a $300 discount. The model on sale features an AMD Ryzen 5 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. You’ll be able to stay productive on-the-go and bring your entertainment with you wherever you travel with this lightweight and portable touchscreen laptop. You won’t have to worry too much about staying power, either, thanks to a battery life of up to 19 hours and fast charging capability.

Asus

If you’re in the market for a thin-and-light laptop with a large display, there’s no need to spend a fortune. The Vivobook Go 15 L510 from Asus will meet the needs of a lot of folks and offers a 15.6-inch full HD display and a weight of just 3.59 pounds. Its specs are certainly entry-level with its Intel Celeron N4020 Processor, 4GB RAM and 64GB Storage, but it’s a decent cheap machine for browsing and general day-to-day computing at this price.

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In our review of the Acer Swift X we praised the machine’s punchy performance for a laptop in the $1,000 price range. Thanks to Prime Day, it’s even more affordable at under $900. The 14-inch machine is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800U processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti Laptop GPU as well as 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. It’s got enough power for tasks like raw photo editing while remaining light enough to take on the go at just over 3 pounds.

Newegg

Dell’s entry-level Inspiron has an admittedly drab, plastic chassis, but it serves up a full-HD (1,920×1,080-pixel), 15.6-inch touch display powered by an 11th-gen, quad-core Core i5 processor along with 16GB of RAM and a huge 1TB SSD. That’s double the memory and storage space you usually find at this price.

MSI

MSI’s version of the MacBook boasts a thin, sleek, all-aluminum enclosure and has been updated with 12th-gen Intel processors. This model is $200 off at Newegg and features a 12th-gen Core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. You also get a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports. The 14-inch display features a full HD resolution but has the older 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio rather than the taller 16:10 ratio that provides more room to work. Still, this is a thin, light and rugged laptop and it’s a great deal at its current sale price.

Newegg

This 15-inch Pavilion 15 offers a well-rounded configuration for the money. Its 15.6-inch, full HD display is powered by an 11th-gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. It features a basic, plastic chassis but it’s fairly thin with a sleek, brushed aluminum finish. It also supplies both USB-A and USB-C ports so you don’t have to carry a dongle with you to connect your USB devices

Newegg

This budget-to-midrange laptop from HP may have an uninspired plastic enclosure, but if you care more about screen size, memory allotment and storage space than you do about a sleek design, then this model is worth checking out. It should offer decent performance, too, with double the RAM and solid-state storage usually included on most other laptops at this price. At this price, you can usually find 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, but sometimes less. In that light, the 32GB of memory and the 1TB SSD here are downright thrilling. You also get a full-HD (1,920×1,080-pixel) resolution for the roomy 17.3-inch display.

Lenovo

Lenovo’s midrange two-in-one convertible laptop is based on 11th-gen Intel Core processors and boasts the Intel Evo badge and an all-metal body. This discounted model features a 15.6-inch full HD touchscreen powered by an 11th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 12GB of RAM, Intel Iris Xe graphics and a 512GB SSD.

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Lenovo’s premium two-in-one convertible delivers the Intel Evo platform inside a thin yet durable all-metal chassis. This model features an 11th-gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, Intel Iris Xe graphics and a 512GB SSD. The 14-inch touchscreen boasts a 4K resolution and can rotate 360 degrees into tablet mode to be tapped, swiped and drawn on with the included active pen.

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Most 17-inch laptops are gaming monsters. The LG Gram 17 is neither a gaming laptop nor a monster. It lacks dedicated graphics to drive 3D games but is only 0.7 inch thick and weighs less than 3 pounds, making this 17.3-inch desktop replacement roughly the same weight as your typical 13.3-inch ultraportable. The spacious 2,560×1,600-pixel display is powered by an 11th-gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and integrated Intel Iris Plus graphics. You also get a roomy 1TB SSD for storage and can save nearly $300 on it right now.

Read our LG Gram 16 review.

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