Amazon Prime Day best laptop deals: $600 off Razer Blade 15 gaming laptop, plus savings on Asus, Microsoft, HP and more

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Microsoft is offering discounts on several Surface Pro configurations, but this is the biggest price cut, taking the most universally useful configuration and dropping it to a reasonable $1,099. Yes, you’ll still need to buy a keyboard cover, but those are discounted as well, down to as low as $120, from the usual $160 for the Surface Pro Signature Type Cover.

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A dual-screen laptop isn’t the lightest laptop around, and powering two displays doesn’t do its battery life any favors, but having a second, half-height display certainly adds some breathing room to your workspace. Plus, the OLED primary display offers a wide color gamut, making the Asus ZenBook Duo a great fit for photo editing. We reviewed the 15-inch ZenBook Duo and found that having multiple monitors made working and playing much more pleasant and felt like moving from a tiny apartment to a house, because bioptimizers coupon code you’re not constantly juggling windows, and you can put boring meetings to the side while you keep working on more interesting stuff.

HP

This two-in-one convertible features a 10th-gen Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. With a full HD (1,920×1,080-pixel) resolution, the 14-inch touch display can rotate 360 degrees into tablet mode.

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The 15-inch Razer Blade has been one of my favorite gaming laptops of the last couple of years, with a thin, not-too-gamery design but plenty of power. It’s also usually pretty expensive. This is a very good deal on a solid configuration, with a Core i7 CPU, Nvidia 2070 GPU, 512GB SSD and 300Hz FHD display.

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This 14-inch ZenBook is less than 0.65-inch thick and weighs only 3.2 pounds. It features the 10th-gen Intel Core i7-10510U CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and Nvidia GeForce MX250 graphics. The laptop has a unique hinge that lifts the back edge of the laptop to provide some tilt to the keyboard to create a comfortable typing position. It also includes a sleeve for travel (for the day when you’re allowed to leave your house again) and an optical mouse.

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This is one of Acer’s education-focused Chromebooks, and a two-in-one model at that, meaning it has a 360-degree hinge that can fold back into a tablet shape. It has an Intel Celeron CPU and an 11.6-inch touchscreen, which is fine for kids working in Google Classroom and similar remote learning tools.

Samsung

This high-end two-in-one may not be the first name that comes to mind, but for just under $1,000, it already has a Core i7 CPU, big 512GB SSD, 12GB of RAM and a QLED touchscreen (not OLED, but Samsung’s QLED). Now, it’s usually $100 off, so for this week, it’s an extra $100 off on top of that. The Core i5 version is similarly discounted.

Dell

Dell’s top-end Inspiron 7000 two-in-one convertible boasts an all-aluminum chassis that’s thinner, lighter and sturdier than the midrange Inspiron 5000 series that features metal lids and keyboard decks but flimsy plastic bottom panels. This model features a 4K display powered by a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM. For storage, you get a 512GB SSD with 32GB of fast Optane memory.

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This is probably the biggest laptop deal of Prime Day. The very high-end version of Google’s fancy Pixelbook Go is $1,400, and usually on Amazon for a bit under $1,200. But today it’s just $200, at least for as long as supplies last. It’s probably the nicest Chromebook anyone has ever made. Would I buy a $1,400 Chrome OS laptop? Probably not. Would I buy a really high-end Chromebook for $200? In a minute.

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Many laptops feature 16:9, wide-screen displays that are great for watching movies but are less than ideal for productivity work. The Acer Spin 15 features a 13.5-inch touchscreen with a 3:2 ratio that provides more room vertically for scrolling through web pages, documents and spreadsheets. And it features a crisp 2K (2,256×1,504-pixel) resolution. This two-in-one convertible laptop also includes a Wacom AES 2.0 active stylus for drawing and writing on the screen. This model features a 10th-gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, Intel Iris Plus graphics and a 512GB SSD.

Asus

The Vivobook 15 packs a 15.6-inch display in a chassis that’s more typical of a 14-inch laptop. It boasts razor-thin bezels on all four sides of the display, weighs only 3.5 pounds and is less than 0.8-inch thick. Inside, it features the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U CPU and AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics along with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB solid-state drive. Many budget models use a 1,366×768-pixel panel, but not so with the VivoBook 15, which offers a full HD 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution.