I found 7 outstanding early Presidents' Day laptop deals under $650 at Walmart

7 laptops on sale at Walmart for under $650

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As Presidents' Day nears, you can already find early laptop sales. I scoured Walmart to find the 7 best laptop deals for budget seekers looking to spend $650 or less.

While most of these laptops are capable daily drivers for general productivity and even casual gaming, a few are more suited to basic web browsing or watching videos.

If you're looking for a budget gaming system, the $628 MSI Thin 15.6 is your best bet. Now $210 off, this model packs an impressive array of components for the price, among them a 15.6-inch FHD display with 144Hz refresh rate, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 graphics. This deal is hard to beat for maximizing your computing power on a budget.

With that said, the $528 Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 comes close. At $251 off, this model lacks the MSI's gaming specs (discrete graphics, fast refresh display), but it delivers the same RAM and storage as the MSI, and it has a 16-inch WUXGA touchscreen display with a 360-degree hinge.

Looking for an inexpensive MacBook? The Apple MacBook Air with M1 chip is now $629, down by $70 from its usual price. This older-generation MacBook Air has a 13.3-inch display and the baseline RAM and storage specs (8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD), but it still offers excellent battery life and enough power for general productivity tasks in a MacOS environment.

The $299 Asus Vivobook 15.6-inch is a bargain with Walmart's current $100 savings. For that price, you get a 3.6-pound laptop with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, plus it has a 12th gen Intel Core i5 CPU.

Our remaining picks pack less power than the models above but can still work well for homework, word processing, e-mail, web surfing, social media, and streaming entertainment.

The $139 Acer Chromebook 315 is perfect for low-lift tasks using Google ChromeOS. Stay in the Windows universe with this pair of inexpensive HP laptops: the $249 HP 15.6-inch Pentium laptop and the HP Stream 14 Celeron laptop. Either of these models should suffice for cloud applications and light productivity tasks, and both include one year of Microsoft 365 cloud services (a $100 value).

If you're on the hunt for a low-cost laptop, scope out Walmart's early Presidents' Day laptop deals.

Apple M1 MacBook Air 13: was $629 now $699 at Walmart
MSI Thin 15.6: was $839 now $628 at Walmart
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 15.6-inch: was $779 now $528 at Walmart
Asus Vivobook 15.6-inch: was $399 now $299 at Walmart
Acer Chromebook 315: was $179 now $139 at Walmart
HP 15.6: was $379 now $249 at Walmart
HP Stream 14: was $229 now $186 at Walmart

Best 7 Presidents Day laptop deals at Walmart under $650

Save $70 on the Apple MacBook Air with M1 chip. This 13.3-inch laptop was the choice entry level MacBook Air when it debuted four years ago, and now it remains the least expensive MacBook you can buy. It remains enough horsepower for general daily productivity, plus it qualifies for Apple Intelligence AI features and has up to 18 hours of battery life.

Features: 13.3-inch Retina (2560 x 1600) display, Apple M1 chip (8-core CPU, 7-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine), 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD

Melissa Perenson has deep expertise in phones, tablets, e-readers, laptops, monitors, storage, and cameras. She buys way too many of the things she writes about it and has worked as an editor at Forbes Vetted, PCWorld, PCMag, and ZDNet, and as a writer at countless publications, including Laptop Mag, Tom’s Guide, and TechRadar.