Now at its best ever price, this 14.5" laptop features an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 1.4GHz processor, as well as 1920x1200 display, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. It promises 2.3x faster performance than the last-generation XPS 13, thanks to its Intel Arc GPU.

This will, predictably, depend on what you're looking for. A very basic Chromebook can easily be yours for less than $200. Looking for something with a little more under the hood will move prices up -- expect the best deals for fairly standard student laptop deals to start around $350, with extras like an i7 CPU, more storage or RAM, or fancy screen technology bumping those prices up to $500 and beyond. You'll very quickly start hitting (and exceeding) $1,000 for a laptop that's suitable for gaming, especially if you want to run relatively recent games at their best.

There are three times we'll always push as fertile ground for the best laptop deals, and these are they:

How long is a piece of string? Stores like Best Buy and Woot! will regularly offer great daily deals on laptops, which obviously limits you to 24 hours. At the other end of the scale, Lenovo will often tie its savings to coupon codes which can last for weeks, stock permitting. Where there's a hard and fast end to the deal, DealNews will be sure to note it; otherwise, assume it could end at any point.