Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop is hundreds off at Best Buy

If you’re keen connected getting a laptop that looks fantastic, feels large to use, and doesn’t outgo excessively much, well, pickings are slim close owed to RAMageddon. However, there’s a bully woody happening astatine Best Buy done Thursday, July 30th, connected Microsoft’s Arm-based, 13.8-inch Surface Laptop that has the 10-core Snapdragon X2 Plus chipset. Originally $1,599.99 (and selling for $1,300 connected competing sites), you tin get the 16GB RAM/512GB SSD configuration successful achromatic oregon dune colour shades for $999.99.

Microsoft Surface Laptop (13.8-inch, 2026)

Where to Buy:

• $1599.99 $999.99 astatine Best Buy (16GB RAM/512GB)
• $1599.99 $1299.99 astatine Microsoft

We precocious reviewed the entry-level Surface Laptop that has 8GB RAM arsenic an experimentation to spot if the Windows 11 acquisition holds up arsenic good arsenic Apple’s MacBook Neo does with macOS. In short? Pass connected it, adjacent for its existent $750 price; We highly urge getting the 16GB exemplary portion it’s discounted to wrong a mates 100 bucks of the basal config. The acquisition is that much better, and treble the retention is nice, too.

As for what to expect from the laptop connected merchantability today, Tom Warren’s 2024 review of the seventh-gen Surface Laptop covers its stellar design, agelong artillery life, and however the Arm-based Windows 11 acquisition continues to improve. The 2026 exemplary we’re discussing contiguous has somewhat improved show acknowledgment to its spot bump, and it comes successful antithetic colors.

Other large Verge-approved deals

• Best Buy has a mates different laptop deals I wanted to outcry retired that expire astatine the extremity of the time (July 30th). Two gaming laptops with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPU and 32GB of accelerated DDR5 RAM are hovering astir $1,000. The astir affordable, the 16-inch A16 with a 13th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 1TB of storage, and a 1200p surface astatine 165Hz refresh complaint is $1,099.99 (was $1,299.99). The much awesome enactment of the two, its Aero X16, costs conscionable $100 more, but jumps up to AMD’s somewhat faster Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU, with a 1600p 165Hz screen.
• It whitethorn beryllium a portion until we spot prices for 512GB microSD Express cards for the Nintendo Switch 2 to beryllium astir $75 — a communal terms passim 2025. Most retailers person them for astir $130, but Amazon has PNY’s exemplary for $99.99. (Walmart’s onn marque makes a cheaper mentation that’s $85 oregon so, but is lone disposable for pickup oregon section delivery, not shipping.) The Switch 2 includes 256GB of storage, and portion you tin treble that with PNY’s 256GB paper for $54.99, you prevention a small wealth conscionable by getting the paper that offers much capacity.
• The Lego Game Boy acceptable is discounted astatine Macy’s, of each retailers. Originally $59.99, it’s down to $47.99. The 421-piece kit that gamers (especially ones aged capable to retrieve utilizing Nintendo’s archetypal Game Boy) volition love. The acceptable includes each the pieces to physique a Game Boy replica, positive lenticular panels that amusement screenshots of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Super Mario Land that look to animate erstwhile you determination the console. Read our review.