8 Best Prime Day Laptop Deals (2024): Apple, Acer, Asus

if you're in the marketplace for a laptop but privation to walk wealth wisely, you're successful luck. Amazon's Prime Day deals tally connected October 8 and 9, and you'll find a fig of our favourite laptops connected sale. Not definite however to prime retired which 1 is champion for you? We person a implicit usher to buying one, arsenic good arsenic guides to the Best Laptops, Best Cheap Laptops, Best MacBooks, and Best Chromebooks.

We trial year-round and cross-checked each of these prices with third-party software. These are the champion discounted machines available, from Windows models and Chromebooks to MacBooks. As always, you request an Amazon Prime rank to get the woody price, but you tin motion up for a escaped proceedings and Prime offers plentifulness of perks.

WIRED Featured Deals

• A MacBook Pro for nether $1,300: MacBook Pro 14-inch Laptop (M3, Late 2023) for $1,299 ($200 off)
• The champion fund laptop: Acer Aspire 3 (2024) for $430 ($118 off)
• A MacBook Air for less: MacBook Air 13-Inch Laptop (M3, 2024) for $849 ($200 off)
• A traveling Chromebook: HP Chromebook Plus x360 for $450 ($150 off)

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Best Laptop Deals

The M3-powered MacBook Air (7/10, WIRED Recommends) isn’t each that antithetic than the M2 model, but it’s a large choice, specifically if you privation a reliable laptop for mundane tasks and somewhat more. It has an charismatic 13.6-inch LCD surface and a notch with a 1080p webcam. Meanwhile, the M3 volition springiness you a bully boost successful show compared to the archetypal M1. You tin besides usage it with 2 outer displays, which is an upgrade from the azygous outer show enactment with the older chips.

According to rumors, M4-powered MacBooks could beryllium coming arsenic soon arsenic this month. But the MacBook Pro with M3 launched conscionable a twelvemonth ago—so it’s inactive a large option. It packs a brighter show with mini LED and a 120-Hz refresh rate, on with a 1080p webcam. It comes with plentifulness of ports too, including 2 USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4, an HDMI, a MagSafe charging port, a high-impedance headphone jack, and an SD paper slot. We urge it if you’re looking for a MacBook Pro without spending $2,000 oregon more.

The Razer Blade 18 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) delivers earthy powerfulness successful a gorgeous build—complete with a immense 18-inch Mini LED show with a 300-Hz surface refresh complaint and G-Sync compatibility. It besides packs Nvidia's RTX 4070 graphics paper and a Thunderbolt 5 port for faster information transportation speeds.

This is simply a coagulated 2-in-1 Chromebook that's large for traveling. The 14-inch IPS LCD sheet (with 1,920 X 1,200-pixel resolution) is sharp, the speakers dependable decent and get amazingly loud, and the Intel Core i3 delivers snappy performance. It doesn't person the champion artillery life, but you'll inactive get done a afloat workday connected 1 charge.

This Chromebook (7/10, WIRED Recommends) holds the rubric of “Best Battery Life” successful our usher to the Best Chromebooks. We got 10 to 11 hours of foodstuff consistently. It does travel with a fewer trade-offs. For example, it has a low-end MediaTek 520 processor and lone 4 GB of RAM, truthful it struggles to support up with definite tasks (including keeping much than a mates of tabs unfastened astatine once). The show isn't large either, and the 64 GB of retention is stifling. But if each you attraction astir is not having to perpetually plug it into a charger oregon breaking the bank, it's a coagulated choice—especially astatine this price.

This is our favourite 15-inch fund laptop. It packs an Intel Core i5 (or AMD 5000 bid chip), 8 GB of RAM, a 15.6-inch IPS show (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), and plentifulness of ports including an Ethernet, USB, USB-C, HDMI, and headphone jack. It besides has a decent keyboard and, astatine 4 pounds, it's ace lightweight. It's surely large for astir mundane tasks too.

The Surface Pro (6/10, WIRED Review) is our favourite 2-in-1 Surface, but it is expensive. It performs good arsenic a tablet, but we bash urge opting for the Flex Keyboard to marque for an adjacent much comfy acquisition overall. We don't suggest buying it for afloat price, though, truthful if you've been eyeing it for a while, past you should surely snag it portion it's connected sale.

The Acer Nitro V (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has been replaced successful our guides by newer, fresher picks, but we inactive deliberation it's a large laptop. It's not the highest-end gaming laptop retired there, but it packs much than capable powerfulness to grip astir games you tin play connected it. This mentation is much upgraded than the exemplary we tested, with an Nvidia RTX 4050 GPU and a 144-Hz 1080p display.