Today’s best laptop deals: Save big on work, school, home use, and gaming

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Best budget laptop deals under $500DellOur top pick: Dell Inspiron 15, $349.99 ($280 off at Best Buy)If you want the most bang for your buck, the Dell Inspiron’s hard to beat. It’s rocking an Intel Core i5-1334U, which handles work, streaming, and a bunch of tabs pretty well. It’s $849.99 right now (down a wild $650), and you’re getting a big 16-inch 1200p screen, a snappy new Ryzen AI 5 chip, plus 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. It’s packing an Intel Core i7-13620H CPU and an RTX 5060 GPU, so high settings in modern games are pretty much a given. You’ll likely find the best laptop deals during Prime Day (mid-July), Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), and back-to-school season (June-August).