Amazon Prime Day has begun, and PCMag experts agree it's the best time of year to get a new laptop at a low price. We've got high-performing machines from all the top brands at discounts of 20% or mor

The Surface Laptop 7 (with Copilot Plus) is now available for $949 at Amazon — which is 42% off the usual price. The laptop itself has a 13.8-inch display, is powered by the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite chip, while also offering 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and Windows 11 Home as standard.

We’re pooling together Prime Day sales on laptops from Apple, Asus, Lenovo, Microsoft, and others — as well as some accessories. Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget.

The Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 2 (Windows 11 Pro, 1TB SSD, 32GB DDR5 RAM, AMD Ryzen 7 processor) laptop is now just $899, down from its typical price of $2,999. This is an all-time low and a rare chance if you’re looking for a powerful machine for work.