The prime day deals include laptops for work and play
Prime Day Deals on Tablets, Streaming Sticks, and Kindles: The Live Blog and Running Down on the Top 10 Deals
It’s that time again. Amazon Prime Day is back. Among thousands of discounted items, from the necessary to the wacky, are the steep discounts on Amazon’s own broad lineup of hardware, including Prime Day Kindle deals you won’t see surpassed the rest of the year. The best time to get a Fire device is during Amazon Prime Day. We have rounded up the top deals on tablets,streaming sticks, andKindles. Don’t like what you see? Don’t forget to keep up with our coverage of Prime Day on our liveblogs and our rundown on the best Amazon Prime Day deals.
I was Team Paperback when I tried the first Kindle, and now you can’t pry it from my fingers. The Paperwhite is the best of the Kindle lineup and our favorite e-reader overall. You have to pay $20 more to get rid of lockscreen ads, but they don’t interfere with reading if you don’t want to spend more. The base Paperwhite and the Signature Edition come with 16 wireless charging and 32 gig of storage, and are recommended by WIRED. There’s also a kids’ version with a case, a year’s subscription to Amazon Kids+, and a two-year, no-questions-asked replacement guarantee. The Paperwhite hasn’t been updated since 2021 and we aren’t sure when a new one might be coming, but mine is still performing as it did on day one. We think it’s still safe to buy one.
The paper white is the best for reading. Writing and drawing can be done with the 10.2-inch screen that the scribe has. It’s a Kindle at heart, so reading is seamless, and there’s no lag while writing. Professional artists will want something better, but it felt natural to use. The Scribe is very pricey though, and the premium pen version, with its eraser on one end, costs another $30. It isn’t waterproof and sticky notes don’t work on book pages, which means you can’t directly write on them.
We like to watch a lot of Amazon Prime content but we think the Fire TV Stick is better because it has a 4K resolution. Anyone can use it, of course, but it obviously heavily promotes Prime content. Its storage is enough for your streaming apps and games. You can pull up your security camera feed and ask Alexa to do things, like order you pizza.
The Fire HD 8 is the best price if you just need a tablet for watching videos and playing basic games but don’t want to spend a fortune. The Fire HD 10 has a better screen, but it has not been updated in more than four years. It has HD 10 features such as stereo sound and a 12 hour battery life, but we didn’t like them enough to buy it.
This 16-inch machine doesn’t scream gaming laptop if you prefer a more stealthy PC that can double as a work laptop. The m16 R2 IPS (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has an LCD with a 240-Hz screen refresh rate, making fast-paced content appear super smooth. It packs Nvidia’s RTX 4070 graphics card so it can handle nearly any game at medium or high graphical settings, and while the battery life is not great while gaming, it’s surprisingly long-lasting when you’re on the clock.
We’ve never seen a price as low as this on a gaming laptop. The WIRED recommended that you choose a more powerful graphics card than the one in the Razer Blade 18. You get so much raw power in a gorgeous build with a massive 18-inch Mini LED display with a 300-Hz screen refresh rate and G-Sync compatibility. It’s also one of the first laptops ever with a Thunderbolt 5 port for faster data transfer speeds. Want a machine that is even smaller? The Blade 14 is on sale for $1,600 ($300 off). —Julian Chokkattu
The laptop names are difficult to understand. The model number can be used to compare other models and it is more confusing than other models. This is an upgrade to our favorite 15-inch budget laptop. The best value we’ve tested is with the 15inch laptops, with the same components as we’ve seen in other 15-inch laptops. It’s big, and the display is not the sharpest, but it won’t strain your eyes. One of the spec listings states that it has 16 GB of ram, but another states that it has 8 GB of ram, so who knows what you’ll get. If you have 8GB, you may want to return it.
The recent crop of more powerful Chromebooks is one of our favorites, and the one we find the most interesting is the one from Acer. It’s everything you need for everyday tasks like browsing the web, editing documents, and chatting with friends. The touch display feels great, which is unusual for a Chromebook, and the keyboard and trackpad are excellent. It’s not going to win any design awards, and there’s no backlit keyboard, but this is a lot of laptop for the price. It was on sale for $320 for a while, but now it is at its lowest price we’ve ever seen. If you want a bigger screen, the $299 price on the Acer Chromebook Plus is also a good deal.
Clip the $50 coupon on Amazon to get an even better discount of $1,049 ($200 off). The large-screen option is the first within the Air lineup. It’s a great choice if all you want is a bigger screen, but don’t want to splurge on a MacBook Pro. It has all of the same features as the 13-inch MacBook Air, including a modern design and a 1,080pWebcam, but there is a new M3 chip. The base model comes equipped with an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU and, in my testing, handled 41 Chrome tabs, multiple apps, and three separate windows with ease. To make sure that it can handle dozens of apps and tabs running concurrently, I recommend an upgrade to at least 16 GB of unified memory. The person isBrenda Stolyar.
