Early Amazon Prime Day laptop deals are already live ahead of the retailer's massive two-day fall sale. Right now, you can save on everything from super cheap Chromebooks to high-end Windows Ultrabooks with excellent price cuts across a wide range of machines. Put simply, it's a great time to be shopping for a brand-new laptop.

ASUS TUF F15: was $749 now $649 @ Walmart A mid-range gaming option with an RTX 3050, this ASUS model has a 15.6-inch 1080p 144Hz display and a futuristic design with easy-to-identify WASD keys. It also has 512GB of SSD space and 8GB of RAM.

Not all gaming laptop deals are built the same - and you can easily cheapen your way out of a playable system by shopping in the budget category and not paying attention to your spec sheet. While this most frequently happens with older RTX 3050 systems these days, it's more often the RAM that you need to watch out for.