The Dell 14 Laptop for $709.99 is a good pick if you want a fast, no‑nonsense machine that can handle work, school, and everyday use without slowing down. The Intel Core 5 120U with 10 cores and up to 5.

The new Surface Pro 12-inch with Snapdragon X Plus CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD costs $849 at Microsoft. The new Surface Laptop 13-inch with those same specs costs $949 at Microsoft. The larger models in each line -- the 13-inch Surface Pro and 13.8- and 15-inch Surface Laptop -- remain unchanged and start with 16GB of RAM.

Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 drops to $1,499, a $700 all-time low, while Apple MacBook Air M5 falls to £988.97 in the UK. Both run LPDDR5X memory being squeezed by AI data centers; Gartner projects PC prices 17% higher by year-end,

Amazon Prime Day may be around the corner, but many of the best discounts have already begun. These are the best laptop deals I've found (so far).