What's the best cheap laptop?

Our favorite budget-friendly laptop is the ASUS Chromebook Flip C434, a sleek but sturdy 2-in-1 with a backlit keyboard and a 14-inch full HD touchscreen. It usually retails for $519.99, but ICYMI, <a href="https://zdcs.link/DR5bZ?pageview_type=Standard&amp%3Btemplate=deals&amp%3Bmodule=content_body&amp%3Belement=offer&amp%3Bitem=text-link&amp%3Belement_label=Amazon%20had%20it%20on%20sale&amp%3Bobject_type=article&amp%3Bobject_uuid=07nw5d5s4Pkgu8RDvxEVWMS&amp%3Bshort_url=DR5bZ&amp%3Bu=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Fdeals%2Fcyber-monday-amazon-laptop-deals&template=deals&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Amazon%20had%20it%20on%20sale&object_type=article&object_uuid=07nw5d5s4Pkgu8RDvxEVWMS&short_url=DR5bZ&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Fdeals%2Fcyber-monday-amazon-laptop-deals" rel="nofollow sponsored" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)">Amazon had it on sale for just $262.50 at the time of writing — a 48% savings and its lowest price there to date.

Best Amazon Cyber Monday 2022 laptop deals: Save on Apple MacBooks, Samsung Galaxy Books, and more

UPDATE: Nov. 27, 2022, 6:30 p.m. EST This story has been updated with Amazon's latest and greatest laptop deals for Cyber Monday 2022.

OUR TOP PICK: The ASUS Chromebook Flip C434 (Intel Core M3-8100Y, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC) is Mashable's favorite budget-friendly laptop. It just hit a new all-time-low price — $262.50 ~~$519.99~~ (save 48%)
BEST MACBOOK DEAL: Apple's 2020 MacBook Air (M1 Chip, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) has returned to its record-low price from October's Prime Early Access Sale — $799 ~~$999~~ (save 20%)
BEST GALAXY BOOK DEAL: The Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey (Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is a workhorse with an RTX 3050Ti GPU that makes it suitable for gaming. It's never been this cheap before, either — $989.97 ~~$1,399.99~~ (save 29%)

Amazon can't compete with Walmart on the extremely cheap (sub-$100) Chromebook front, but it's still one of the absolute best places to find a laptop deal this holiday season.

The retail giant is already rolling out all-time-high discounts on higher-end Samsung Galaxy Books and Apple MacBooks (including Pro and Air configurations from earlier this year) for Cyber Monday. Shoppers in search of a basic Chromebook for kids or school can find plenty of options in the $100 to $300 range, including a couple of ASUS machines that come with free Office 265 or Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Gaming laptop deals from brands like MSI and Razer haven't hit their stride on Amazon just yet, but we'll be keeping a close eye out for their inevitable appearances.

One important thing to keep in mind as you peruse Amazon's listings is that it loves to mess with laptops' MSRPs (by either inflating or deflating them), often obscuring whether deals are actually good or not. It's a good idea to cross-check prices on direct retailers' websites to make sure you're getting a good deal.

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If that all sounds like a lot of work, fret not: We're going through all of Amazon's Cyber Monday laptop deals and picking out everything that's actually worth buying based on true MSRPs and historical data from camelcamelcamel, a price-tracking site we rely on for fact-checking these kinds of things. Check out the running list of contenders below.