if you are there Please use this site if you are interested in the laptop market but want to spend your money wisely. Amazon’s Prime Day sale ends today, October 9th. Many of your favorite laptops are on sale. Not sure how to choose the best one for you? We have a complete guide to buying, as well as guides to the best laptops, the best cheap laptops, the best MacBooks, and the best Chromebooks.
We test throughout the year and cross-check all of these prices with third-party software. These are the best discount machines available, from Windows models and Chromebooks to MacBooks. As always, you’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member to get the sale price, but you can sign up for a free trial and Prime comes with a lot of perks.
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The best Prime Day laptop deals aren’t available on Amazon, but you can get them at Best Buy. This is Samsung’s new Copilot+ PC, a sleek machine that performed best in our tests among the large wave of Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered laptops that arrived this summer. The Book4 Edge (8/10, WIRED Recommended) is not suitable for gamers or people who need the power of a graphics processor for intensive tasks like video editing. ARM architecture CPUs on Windows also have some app compatibility issues. But for most people, its great performance, large 15.6-inch screen, and excellent battery life make it surprisingly comfortable to handle everyday apps and tasks.
This is the first big discount we’ll see on Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop (also the Copilot+ PC, which we’ll discuss in this article). This is a perfectly nice machine (7/10, WIRED Recommended), but it was too expensive to begin with. The price is a bit more reasonable, especially since this is the version with the Snapdragon X Elite chipset, 16GB of RAM, and a 1 terabyte solid-state drive. It also has a 14-inch touchscreen with a 120Hz screen refresh rate. Performance is excellent for daily tasks and battery life is also long, so consider all the “AI” features. Also note that this is a Qualcomm-powered PC, so you may experience app compatibility issues.
The MacBook Air with M3 (7/10, WIRED Recommended) isn’t all that different from the M2 model, but it’s a great option, especially if you need a reliable laptop for everyday tasks and beyond. is. It features an attractive 13.6-inch LCD screen and notch with a 1080p webcam. On the other hand, M3 offers a significant performance improvement compared to the original M1. It can also be used with two external displays. This is an upgrade from the single external display supported by older chips.
If you want a MacBook with a larger screen, the 15-inch Air (8/10, WIRED recommended) is the way to go. It has all the same features as the smaller version, including a modern design, 1080p webcam, and M3 chip inside. The base model is equipped with an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, allowing you to comfortably handle a variety of tasks. However, we recommend upgrading to at least 16 GB of memory to handle many apps and tabs simultaneously smoothly.
Rumor has it that an M4-equipped MacBook could arrive as early as this month. However, the MacBook Pro with M3 was released just a year ago, so it’s still a great option. It has a brighter display with mini-LED and 120Hz refresh rate, and a 1080p webcam. It also comes with plenty of ports, including two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4, HDMI, a MagSafe charging port, a high-impedance headphone jack, and an SD card slot. If you’re looking for a MacBook Pro without spending more than $2,000, this is the one for you.
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The Razer Blade 18 (8/10, WIRED Recommended) delivers raw power in a gorgeous build with a huge 18-inch mini LED display with a 300Hz screen refresh rate and G-Sync compatibility. It also has Nvidia’s RTX 4070 graphics card and Thunderbolt 5 ports for faster data transfer speeds.
This is our favorite 15-inch budget laptop. It has an Intel Core i5 (or AMD 5000 series chip), 8 GB RAM, a 15.6-inch IPS display (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), and a number of ports including Ethernet, USB, USB-C, HDMI, and headphones. Jack. It also comes with a decent keyboard and is super lightweight at 4 pounds. Indeed, it is also perfect for most everyday tasks.
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This is a rugged 2-in-1 Chromebook that’s perfect for travel. The 14-inch IPS LCD panel (1,920 x 1,200 pixels resolution) is crisp, the speakers have decent sound and are surprisingly loud, and the Intel Core i3 provides snappy performance. The battery life isn’t very long, but you can get through a full day’s work on a single charge.
This Chromebook (7/10, WIRED Recommends) earned the title of “Best Battery Life” in our Best Chromebooks guide. A stable amount of juice was obtained for 10 to 11 hours. That comes with some trade-offs. For example, it has a low-end MediaTek 520 processor and only 4GB of RAM, so it struggles to keep up with certain tasks (like keeping multiple tabs open at once). The display isn’t great, and the 64GB of storage is stuffy. But if all you care about is not having to plug it into a charger often or spend a fortune, this is a solid choice, especially at this price. Ideal for simple web-based tasks and word processing.
Do you enjoy gaming on your Chromebook? With these machines revolving around the Google Chrome browser, it’s not something you immediately think of. Still, the 516 GE (8/10, WIRED Recommended) is one of the more powerful Chromebook Plus laptops with the battery life to get you through the workday with ease. Billed as a cloud gaming machine, it can stream games through services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now. Maximize your internet speed with Wi-Fi 6E support or Ethernet port. Additionally, you get a 16-inch screen with a 120Hz refresh rate.
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The Surface Pro (6/10, WIRED review) is our favorite 2-in-1 Surface, but it’s expensive. Although it performs well as a tablet, we recommend opting for a flex keyboard for a more comfortable experience overall. However, we do not recommend purchasing at full price. So if you’ve had your eye on it for a while, you should definitely buy it while it’s on sale.
The Acer Nitro V (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has been replaced in our guide by a newer, fresher pickup, but we still think it’s a great laptop. It’s not a top-of-the-line gaming laptop, but it has enough power to handle most games you can play. This version is an upgrade over the model we tested, with an Nvidia RTX 4050 GPU and a 144Hz 1080p display.
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Do you need a laptop? Really? Really, really? There are some great tablets that might be enough for most of us.
This is the best Android tablet you can buy. The OnePlus Pad 2 has great spec updates across the board compared to the first-generation model, including a slightly larger, brighter, and clearer 12.1-inch LCD screen. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, the flagship processor in most 2024 Android smartphones, and has double the RAM and internal storage. It’s a shame it’s missing the green color and it doesn’t have biometrics, but other than that it’s a great Android tablet. The Open Canvas feature lets you multitask with three apps side by side (or two side by side and a third below). It’s a much more intuitive interface than many split-screen experiences on competing devices.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better Android tablet at this price. The original OnePlus Pad (8/10, WIRED Recommended) is still a great deal. For $350, you get an 11.61-inch LCD screen with a 144Hz refresh rate, a powerful MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset for smooth performance, and best of all, OnePlus’ excellent software.
Want an Apple slate? They’re on sale, too, including the latest 10th generation iPad (7/10, WIRED review). This is most people’s favorite. It features a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina (IPS LCD) display, a Touch-ID sensor integrated into the power button, a USB-C port (welcome to the future of Apple), and a 12-megapixel rear camera. It’s powered by the A14 Bionic chip, which is capable of doing almost anything you might do on a basic tablet like this. It goes without saying that there are rumors of more iPads arriving later this year, but even if they do, this is still a capable tablet that’s a bargain at this price.
If you’re looking for a cheap tablet, the 2021 entry-level iPad (8/10, WIRED Recommended) is still a good option. It’s three years old and uses the older A13 Bionic chip, but it’s reasonably priced and good enough for casual tablet use. The base model comes with 64GB of storage, a 12-megapixel rear camera (with Center Stage support), a physical home button with Touch ID, and a True Tone display. It’s also compatible with a variety of accessories, including the first-generation Apple Pencil and Apple’s Smart Keyboard.
The latest iPad Pro tablet (6/10, WIRED review) comes with a ton of upgrades, including a bigger and brighter display, front-facing camera in landscape mode, and an updated OLED screen. It is equipped with the latest M4 chip for crisp and smooth performance. If you don’t need a Pro but want a bigger display, the 13-inch iPad Air with M2 (8/10, WIRED recommended) is also on sale for $749 ($50 off).
Tab S9+ (7/10, WIRED Recommended) features a 12.4-inch screen, 120Hz OLED refresh rate, snappy performance, and IP68-rated water resistance. A great option if you’re looking for a tablet powerful enough to get work done during the day and stream content at night. A smaller Tab S9 with the same features (apart from a smaller screen) is also available for $684 ($116 off). Samsung just announced the Tab S10 series, but there aren’t any major improvements, so the S9+ is a better value.
