The best first-day deals on Dell laptops, desktops, monitors and more

We’re madly gearing up for Prime Big Deal Days, a two-day event (starting October 8) that sees Amazon slashing prices on all sorts of tech products relevant to our interests. We’ll work like Hercules to bring you the best tech deals, but the early bird gets the worm, so we decided to jump right in and highlight the incredible discounts you can get without waiting. Dell is usually well represented in Amazon sales on their wide range of products, and here are five that are worth your time and money.

Dell honestly makes an amazing variety of laptops for almost every market, but their bread and butter has always been business machines. In our review of the Inspiron 3511, we said that it “checks many of the boxes we look for in a good budget laptop—including a large 15.6-inch screen, an easy-to-swallow asking price, and the best operating system Microsoft’s latest.” At almost $200 off, it’s an even better deal. This configuration comes with a perfectly capable Intel Core i5-1035G1 processor, 12GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. It is a wireless portable that will serve you well.

Any kind of price drop on a monitor like this is worth noting, but 11% brings us into the double digits. In our review of the Dell U2724D, we gave it an “Excellent” rating and said that its “brightness, contrast, and sRGB coverage are excellent.” Its pixel density is exceptional even though it doesn’t offer 4K resolution, and colors look vivid and true. IPS Black technology produces deep black tones that look great. The 350 nits of brightness make it work well in most situations, and the multiple ports on the base are handy to have.

Dell’s Alienware gaming brand has a reputation for pushing the envelope in terms of form factor, and few PCs show that like the Aurora R15. With a unique case that looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, equipped with multiple LED arrays for epic brightness, it’s totally unique. Inside the box you’ll find everything you need to handle the latest and greatest games, built around an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X processor paired with 32GB of RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, and a total of 3TB of storage storage. In our review, we said we “consider it a good option for a plug-and-play mid-tower with a visual wow factor.”

All-in-one PCs are good options for less tech-savvy people who need a simple and straightforward way to set up with little cable management. Dell’s Inspiron line is affordable and reliably capable, with middle-of-the-road loads ideal for productivity and media streaming. This isn’t the unit for serious creators or gamers, but at $200 off it’s a great choice for everyday use. In our review of an earlier model. we praised the “sleek, modern design” and “strong application performance.” This unit comes with an Intel Core 7-150U processor, 32GB of RAM, a GeForce MX570A GPU and 1TB of internal storage.

Curved monitors are pretty amazing – the ability to mimic the natural arc of the eye allows your computer to push graphics that are more immersive than ever. That’s a whopping 40% price drop on an incredible curved display that we called “a gorgeous high-contrast display” in our review, where we praised the massively high 5120 x 2160 resolution with 140 ppi pixel density. exceptional image clarity and solid port selection. It will definitely take up some desk space, but such a great panel is worth the sacrifice.

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