Best laptop deals: Save $630 on an HP Pavilion, $400 on a Dell Inspiron or MSI Prestige 14 and more

Walmart

If you’re of a certain age, you may recall the Gateway name and its computers that shipped in black-and-white cow print boxes. Gateway now has a line of low-cost laptops and tablets at Walmart. This 14-inch Gateway laptop features a 10th-gen Intel Core i5 CPU and 16GB of RAM. You get a 256GB solid-state drive for storage — average capacity for the price, but the amount of memory is double what is usually on offer. And you get a full HD (1,920×1,080-pixel) display, which is better than the 1,366×768-pixel panels found on other budget laptops. There’s also a fingerprint reader for easy, secure logins. If you don’t mind a pink laptop, you can save a whopping $249.

Walmart

Take the above model, expand the screen from 14.1 inches to 15.6 inches and get a massive $270 in savings. If you’re working or learning from home and commuting less, the added screen real estate outweighs the added heft and bulk. The discount applies to the black color option only.

Lenovo

This midrange laptop is currently on sale at a budget laptop price. It features a 15.6-inch full-HD touchscreen powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 3700U CPU, 12GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. The CPU is a generation behind AMD’s current line but a member of the leading Ryzen 7 series — it should power through general tasks with its above-average memory allotment.

MSI

MSI’s version of the MacBook boasts a thin, sleek, all-aluminum enclosure and Intel’s Evo platform. This discounted model features an 11th-gen Core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. You also get a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports. It’s discounted by $300 and you can save another $100 via an MSI rebate.

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Newegg

Tons of memory and solid-state storage are the highlights of this heavily discounted 15.6-inch HP Pavilion laptop. It boasts 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD along with a current AMD Ryzen 7 5700U CPU. It also includes a fingerprint reader for easy, secure logins and Windows 10 Pro.

Dell

Dell’s top-end Inspiron 7000 2-in1 convertible boasts an all-aluminum chassis that’s thinner, lighter and sturdier than the midrange Inspiron 5000, which features metal lids and keyboard decks but flimsy plastic bottom panels. This 13.3-inch model is discounted by $300 and you can save an additional $100 via Best Buy’s Student Deals offer. The laptop supplies a 11th-gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, Intel Xe graphics and a 512GB SSD with 32GB of fast Optane memory. The 13.3-inch touchscreen features full HD resolution and can rotate 360 degrees into tablet mode.

Asus

You get a huge screen, a huge amount of memory, and huge storage capacity along with the latest Intel silicon with this sleek VivoBook laptop. It serves up a 17.3-inch display, a whopping 40GB of RAM (8GB onboard plus 32GB SODIMM), and a pair of 1TB drives — an SSD and a mechanical hard drive. An 11th-gen Core i7 CPU and Intel Iris Xe graphics power the action.

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The new 13-inch MacBook Pro uses Apple’s new M1 processor, which is an eight-core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores, an eight-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. The step-up model with a 512GB SSD is currently $150 at Amazon, and nearly every MacBook Pro buyer will appreciate the added storage capacity over the baseline model that features a 256GB SSD.