I dug up the best October Prime Day laptop deals: These models are...

The best early October Prime Day laptop deals at a glance:

the 13-inch m4 apple macbook air

the 13.8-inch microsoft surface laptop 7

Black Friday is the absolute best time to buy a laptop if you want a great deal. Retailers typically reserve their year-round lows for October through December to entice holiday shoppers, and to clear their shelves ahead of next-gen hardware launches in January. It's the perfect storm for PC bargain-hunting.

For its part, Amazon unofficially kicks off its Black Friday festivities well ahead of time with a Prime Big Deal Days sale in early fall. This "October Prime Day" event starts today, on Oct. 7 and runs until Oct. 8, which means the deals have already kicked off.

There are several Apple MacBooks and Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs discounted as part of the Prime Big Deal Days. Amazon will probably put way more options on sale as the event rolls on and lower the prices of the already-on-sale models even further.

That said, there are two October Prime Day laptop deals that I think are worth considering now because they're already at or very close to their all-time lows.

Best MacBook deal

Why we like it

Apple's M4 MacBook Air is a sleek speed demon: In our CPU benchmark, it outperformed 89% of the models in our laptop testing database. (Compared to the last-gen M3 model, it's 24% faster.) It doesn't look all that different from older MacBooks with M-something chips, but its upgraded 12MP Center Stage camera was a welcome upgrade to our reviewer. We think the 13-inch model is the best MacBook for students and other users who value portability, and right now, Amazon has an upgraded configuration with 512GB of storage on sale for $999 — its lowest price on record. (Doubling its 256GB base capacity means you'll probably never need an external hard drive.) No other MacBook was on sale for an all-time low at the time of writing.

Read Mashable's full review of the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air (M4).

More MacBook Air deals

Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $799 ~~$999~~ (save $200)
Apple MacBook Air, 15-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $999 ~~$1,199~~ (save $200)

MacBook Pro deals

Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,399 ~~$1,599~~ (save $200)
Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M4 Pro, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $2,249 ~~$2,499~~ (save $250)
Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M4 Max, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $2,869 ~~$3,199~~ (save $330)
Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M4 Max, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $3,099 ~~$3,499~~ (save $400)

Best Windows laptop deal

Why we like it

The 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 with a Snapdragon X Elite chip is our favorite Windows laptop for most people. It's beautiful, it's about as fast as an M4 MacBook Air, and it lasts for nearly 23 hours on a single charge — that's two longer than the M4 Pro-powered MacBook Pro, the longest-lasting MacBook we've tried. (Before you buy it, just double check that its powerful ARM-based CPU is compatible with your go-to apps.) The black variant with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage is marked down to $957 for Prime Big Deal Days, which is a 32% discount on its $1,399.99 MSRP. It very briefly fell to $918.47 in late September, but this current offer beats its Prime Day deal in July.

Mashable Deals

Read Mashable's full review of the 13.8-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop 7.

Matthew Ford contributed to this article.