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Now that laptops with the latest Intel and AMD chips are starting to hit the streets, it’s bargain season on models with previous-gen processors that are, honestly, almost as good in most respects.
Case in point: Amazon is running a sale on select laptops from Acer and Asus and, among other things, you can pick up a 3.1 pound laptop with a 14 inch display, an AMD Ryzen 7 5825U processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti discrete graphics, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD for just $750. With a processor that’s virtually identical to the Ryzen 7 7730U chip that AMD introduced this year, that’s a pretty great price for a laptop with hardware that’s not really all that dated.

Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Laptops
- Acer Chromebook Spin 314 14″ convertible w/Pentium Silver N6000/4GB/128GB for $290 – Amazon
- Refurb Acer Swift 3 14″ laptop w/Core i5-1240P/16GB/512GB for $450 – Acer (via eBay)
- Acer Swift X 14″ laptop w/Ryzen 5 5600U/RTX 3050/8GB/512GB for $650 – Amazon
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14s w/Core i5-1145G7/16GB/512GB for $737 – Lenovo (via eBay)
- Acer Swift X 14″ laptop w/Ryzen 7 5825U/RTX 3050 Ti/16GB/512GB for $750 – Amazon
- Acer Spin 3 convertible w/Core i7-1255U/16GB/512GB for $850 – Amazon
- Acer Swift 3 14 QHD laptop w/Core i7-1260P/16GB/1TB for $900 – Amazon
- Acer Predator Triton 300 SE 14″ 165Hz gaming laptop w/Core i7-12700H/RTX 3060/16GB/512GB for $1000 – Best Buy
Mini PCs
- Beelink SER5 w/Ryzen 5 5600H/32GB/500GB for $409 – Amazon
- Beelink SER6 mini PC w/Ryzen 5 6600H/16GB/500GB for $471 – Amazon (clip coupon)
- MINISFORUM EliteMini HX90 barebones mini PC w/Ryzen 9 5900HX for $499 – MINISFORUM
Storage
- Samsung T7 1TB portable SSD (1,050MB/s) for $90 – Amazon
- Samsung T7 Shield 1TB portable SSD (1,050MB/s) for $90 – Amazon
- SanDisk 1TB portable SSD (520MB/s) for $63 – Amazon
- WD Elements 14TB external desktop HDD for $220 – WD
Other
- Google Pixel 6a for $299 – Amazon
- Refurb Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2021) for $70 – Woot
- Refurb Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (2021) for $110 – Woot
- Refurb Sony LinkBuds true wireless earbuds for $48 – Secondipity (via eBay w/coupon: PRESDAY20)
- Refurb Sony WF-1000XM4 true wireless noise-cancelling earbuds for $95 –Â Secondipity (via eBay w/coupon: PRESDAY20)
Man, those linkbuds just keep getting cheaper! I bought a pair when they were at ~$80, and I really like mine. They’re great for listening to something while keeping aware of my environment, and they’re vibration sensitive rather than touch-sensitive, so the controls work even with gloves and a hat on.
(I did have to turn off “wide area tap” because it kept incorrectly detecting things like me eating food as taps, but the regular mode works fine.)