Best Buy tends to be the best major retailer for laptop deals, followed by Amazon and Walmart. That said, all three sell a lot of discontinued models and often inflate original list prices, making their deals look better than they actually are. (Amazon and Walmart are also rife with sketchy listings from third-party sellers.) As such, we always cross-check model numbers and prices with manufacturers' direct websites. Most of them are usually running sales of their own, too: At the time of writing, Apple and MSI's back-to-school sales were still live; Lenovo was running an End of Summer Clearance Sale; and Acer, Dell, HP, and Samsung's websites featured discounts on select tech.