Amazon's early Prime Day laptop deals are finally ramping up: Shop record lows on Apple, LG, and Acer
Grab the best early Prime Day laptop deals on the Acer Swift X 14 and M3 MacBook Pro. Save up to $400.
UPDATE: Oct. 7, 2024, 1:35 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with new deals and current availability.
Amazon isn't usually loaded with great laptop deals on any given day (especially compared to the competition), but things tend to pick up a bit during the retailer's major sitewide sales.
With Prime Big Deal Days coming tomorrow — that would be Amazon's members-only "October Prime Day" sale, set for Oct. 8 and 9 — the Mashable Shopping team is on the lookout for the best, most worth-it discounts there starring Apple MacBooks, Windows PCs, Chromebooks, and beyond.
Amazon didn't release a ton of great laptop deals in the lead-up to the sale, but the floodgates are finally starting to crack open in the eleventh hour: Three Acer laptops and a pair of LG gram convertibles have fallen to all-time lows. Note that the latter are Prime exclusives; if you're not a member, you can get around the paywall by signing up for a free 30-day trial.
Amazon also has some MacBook Pros and Airs on sale separately from its pre-Prime Big Deal Days programming. That includes the 13-inch M2 Air and the 14-inch M3 Pro, two of our favorite MacBooks, which have fallen to their own record-low prices at the time of writing. They may not appear on the sale's official event page, but we encourage shoppers to consider these deals, too.
We'll couch these recs with a warning that anything on sale now could theoretically get even cheaper when Prime Big Deal Days officially starts at 3 a.m. ET Tuesday. (That's when we're expecting the bulk of Amazon's best laptop offers to arrive.) But if you need to upgrade ASAP and can't wait until then, these are great deals as things currently stand. Below, we go deeper on specs and pricing.
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