With a new school year just around the corner, it is important for every college student who is going back to campus to equip themselves with the right tech for their studies. For the budget-conscious who are looking for less expensive but still the best laptops you can get for your buck, Amazon has you covered. Amazon just dropped the prices of Lenovo IdeaPad 15.6-Inches laptops by up to 60% off. It’s not the latest IdeaPad laptop (S940) but it holds up with other name-brand laptops.
We’ve gathered some of the most discounted laptop deals in different price ranges for you to pick. It’s never too early to shop back-to-school laptop deals and you can expect more as Labor Day sales approach. Check them out below and get yours as quick as you can while stocks still last.
For students and even working professionals, the Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15IGM lets you take your tasks home with you. It runs with an Intel Celeron processor and 4GB of RAM so you can do multitasking in between programs while its 500GB of hard drive storage gives you enough space to store your important files.
The Lenovo IdeaPad has a 15-inch LED widescreen display with a 1,366 x 768 resolution that gives a sharp and colorful display for a clearer view. It also has built-in stereo speakers and HD webcam, with 2 USB ports and an HDMI slot. Originally priced at $323, Amazon cuts it by $69 so you can now get it for only $254.
With the Lenovo Ideapad 130, you can switch from studying to playing games with ease. It has the 7th-generation AMD A6-9225 dual-core processor, giving users aeliable performance right when you need it. Its 15.6-inch of HD display has an energy-efficient LED backlight for saving power, but its 2-cell battery may only last up to a few hours depending on usage and other factors.
You can play most standard games with this laptop as it has 8GB of RAM, 500GB of HDD storage, and operates with AMD Radeon R4 integrated graphics. Get this now for only $399 as Amazon gives a whopping $600 discount from its listed price of $999.
For students who love playing games to release some steam, the Lenovo IdeaPad 330 with 12GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage is a good option. It works with the 8th-generation quad-core Intel Core i7-8550U processor with Intel Integrated UHD Graphics 620 capable of running decent games. It has a 15.6-inch touchscreen HD LED-backlit display and two 1.5-watts speakers with Dolby Audio Processing for a complete watching experience.
It normally sells for $1,999 but Amazon is offering a whopping $1,110 discount, bringing it down to just $889. Take advantage of this great opportunity and bring home one now while stocks last.
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Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper. However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription.
Ollama, an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).