Labor Day is still a week away, but if you’re looking for savings, there’s really no need to wait that long. Many of the best Labor Day sales have yet to come down the pipeline, but when it comes to laptop deals, online retailers have already laid out their best discounts. HP, Lenovo, and Dell Labor Day sales going on right now make it one of the best times of the year to save on a new laptop for work or for play.
As a computing brand, HP is known primarily for its laptops and PCs, but this Labor Day sale covers a much wider range of products. Whether you’re looking for a new laser printer or a nice 4K gaming monitor, HP has got you covered with big savings.
HP has come out with a few different updates of this 2-in-1 laptop, and it has remained one of our favorites throughout its wonderful. We actually gave the 2019 HP Spectre x360 13 an impressive 10 out of 10 in our review — which is a rare sight for any laptop we look at. With great battery life, a comfy and precise keyboard, and convertible nature it is a really good choice for anyone hoping to be productive. This particular option offers an Intel Core i5 processor, 8 GB of memory, and 256 GB SSD. This is currently the most affordable configuration we could find, but you can scale up processing power and memory while maintaining that same discount.
Normally priced around $1,150, you can pick up this HP convertible laptop for as low as $950 right now. If you’re looking for the best laptop under $1,000 during this Labor Day sale, this is it.
A lot of lightweight 2-in-1s lean towards the smaller side of things with their 13-inch displays, but if you like the extra screen real estate that a standard-sized panel gives you, the HP Envy x360 15 might be the one for you. Its 15.6-inch touch display is gorgeous, and aside from some design quirks (like its arguably unnecessary numpad), the Envy’s design is great. The screen folds flat for tablet-like use with the included HP Pen or your fingers, while hardware like 8th gen Intel CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD the snappy performance you’d expect from a modern multitasking machine.
The HP Envy x360 15 is one of the best deals of the HP Stars, Stripes, and Savings sale, and it’s available in two different CPU configurations: The Intel Core i5 CPU variant is just $600, or $270 off, while the upgraded Intel Core i7 model can be yours for $700, saving you $330.
Though the two laptops featured above are both great options, they definitely aren’t the only deals available during this Labor Day sale. If you’re looking for a Chromebook, monitor, or printer at a discount. We’ve gathered some of the best additional savings we could find, but you’ll have to check out the sale for yourself to get a fuller picture of all of the price cuts available.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Google DeepMind's AI world model Genie 4 can now build interactive worlds that you can explore and reshape as they run. It also generates ambient sounds, music, and dialogue that respond to your actions.
The new world model builds on Genie 3 with improved realism, more natural human movement, and better simulations of real-world physics. It could eventually help with everything from game development to training robots.
Apple has an incredible talent for making me admire its products while simultaneously questioning what on earth it's thinking with the pricing. This isn't even something as bizarre as a monitor stand, but the audacity for starting a new laptop lineup from $2,000 doesn't surprise me.
The newly announced 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is just the latest to showcase this. The funny thing is, I already know that it's going to be a reliable workstation. You get a powerful new 2nm M6 processor, a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display, and up to 24 hours of battery life. We were impressed by the M5 MacBook Air, so the high-end M6 powered MacBook Pro definitely won't let us down.