TL;DR: Save 84% on this refurbished Lenovo Chromebook and get free shipping until they’re sold out. You don’t always want to risk your main laptop on a plane, a family trip, or in your kid’s sticky fingers.

Head to our best laptops guide, and our current pick for the best workday machine is the Dell XPS 13. And if you follow up that visit by heading to Best Buy, you can get that same Dell XPS for $999, a $500 discount off its regular price.

Here’s a giant saving on the excellent Asus Vivobook S14, which is superb value at £459.99. The powerful but slim 14in laptop runs on the latest Snapdragon X Plus processor, giving it improved energy efficiency and an impressive 20-hour battery life, while the 16GB of RAM can comfortably handle multitasking the most demanding software.

A thin design, it’s shocking it has front & rear cameras, stereo speakers, USB-C & audio jack, 12 hours battery, and a detachable keyboard.

Lenovo’s latest Chromebook Plus 14 is an Arm-based thin-and-light with good specs, excellent battery life, a great keyboard, all-around solid build, and a fantastic OLED screen. But the best part is that its bright and punchy 14-inch panel comes standard on the base $649 configuration or as a touchscreen for $749.