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10 of the best Labor Day laptop sales and deals in 2020 – TechRadar

The Labor Day laptop sales might be over, but nobody told these deals. We’re seeing some excellent continued savings this week, with laptop deals keeping their Labor Day prices well after the shopping weekend has come to an end. We don’t know how long these offers will last, however, so to avoid disappointment we’re rounding…

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10 of the best Labor Day laptop sales and deals in 2020 – TechRadar

The Labor Day laptop sales might be over, but nobody told these deals. We’re seeing some excellent continued savings this week, with laptop deals keeping their Labor Day prices well after the shopping weekend has come to an end. We don’t know how long these offers will last, however, so to avoid disappointment we’re rounding up five of the best Labor Day laptop sales we’ve seen still running today. 

One of our favorite laptop deals of the weekend, this $100 saving bringing the Asus Vivobook down to $499, is still available at Best Buy. There’s a 512GB SSD packed into this offer, with a Ryzen 5 processor to keep everything ticking over as well – that’s a fantastic amount of storage space for under $500. Moving up the price scale, however, we’re also seeing plenty of Labor Day laptop sales sticking around on more expensive models as well.

for just $699 – only $20 more than it’s cheapest price ever. 

Scroll down to see our full list of the Labor Day laptop sales still running this week. Plus, we’re also rounding up more Labor Day sales elsewhere on TechRadar, and you can shop all the latest cheap laptop deals as well.

Labor Day laptop sales: the best deals still live 

1. Dell XPS 13 touchscreen laptop: $849.99 $699.99 at Dell
This Dell XPS 13 is only $20 more than the cheapest price we’ve ever seen on an XPS 13. Sure, it’s the entry-level spec but inside you’re still getting the latest 10th gen Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD – good starting specs for people who want a premium ultrabook for casual tasks.
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2. Asus 15.6-inch laptop: $599.99 $499.99 at Best Buy
Speaking of cheap laptops, this $100 saving on an Asus Vivobook has to be one of the best bang for the buck laptop deals we’ve seen in a while. Inside is a Ryzen 5 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 512GB – a huge amount of fast storage for the price. Pick this one up if you want a light, fast machine that really punches above its weight.
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3. 2020 MacBook Air | AirPods | $999 $899 at Apple
Apple isn’t always known for their value, but this superb promotion on a 2020 MacBook Air is too good not to have on our Labor Day laptop sales list. There’s a $100 discount being offered right now, which means you can pick up the 256GB SSD baseline variant for just $899, plus, Apple will also throw in a free pair of AirPods right now.
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4. HP 15.6-inch laptop: $789.99 $549.99 at HP
When it comes to cramming in top-end specs into budget machines, HP pretty much has any other brand beat. This $230 saving on a 15-inch laptop is incredible value if you need a powerful machine for homework. Inside is a 10th gen Intel Core i5 processor, 12GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD – pretty unbeatable power at this price point.
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5. Dell XPS 13: $1,249 $1,049.99 at Dell
This stacked Dell XPS 13 is coming in at just over $1,000 in the Labor Day laptop sales – an excellent price considering you’re saving $200. There’s a 10th generation i7 processor here, with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD to play with as well.
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More Labor Day sales

  • Amazon – big savings on the latest tech deals, Amazon devices and more
  • Amazon – save on school supplies, learning, and backpacks
  • Amerisleep – $200 off any mattress
  • Apple – $280 off a new iPhone with trade-in, plus free AirPods with MacBooks and IPads
  • Best Buy – discounts on laptops, cell phones, and 4K TVs
  • Bear – 20% off sitewide mattresses, plus 2 free pillows
  • Bitdefender – up to 60% off Antivirus Plus 2020
  • Casper – up to 50% of accessories and mattresses
  • Cocoon by Sealy – 35% off the Chill mattress, saving up to $400
  • Dell – 10% off sitewide prices with promo code SAVE10
  • Dreamcloud – Get $200 off a mattress, plus free accessories
  • Dyson – up to $100 off select vacuum cleaners
  • Home Depot – up to 40% off tools, appliances, and home items 
  • HP – up to 30% of printers, laptops, desktops and more
  • IPVanish – up to 65% off VPN plus SugarSync cloud storage
  • Lenovo – up to 58% off select laptop deals
  • Lowes – up to 37% off a wide array of furniture, tools, and garden items
  • Microsoft – save up to $450 on gaming laptops
  • Mattress Firm – up to 50% off top branded mattresses
  • MixBook – 50% off plus free shipping on orders over $50 with code BESTDAYS
  • Nectar mattress – $399 of free accessories with every mattress
  • Purple mattress – Up to $350 off mattress and sleep bundles
  • Saatva – $200 off all orders over $1,000
  • Serta – up to $400 off select mattresses
  • Tempur-Pedic – save up to $500 on select adjustable mattresses
  • Wayfair – up to 70% off outdoor furniture and items

Shop all the latest Best Buy Labor Day sales, or check out all the best Lowe’s Labor Day sales. 

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Bitdefender Family parental control review

If you’re looking for a comprehensive online security suite for your family that also includes parental controls, Bitdefender is one of the best options right now. It’s a well-known security provider offering an award-winning antivirus program, along with a password manager, VPN, and identity theft protection. But does its parental control offering, which is bundled

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Bitdefender Family parental control review

If you’re looking for a comprehensive online security suite for your family that also includes parental controls, Bitdefender is one of the best options right now. It’s a well-known security provider offering an award-winning antivirus program, along with a password manager, VPN, and identity theft protection.

But does its parental control offering, which is bundled with its Family plans and not available via a standalone subscription or even a dedicated app, compete against the best parental control apps?

Read on as we dissect the various parental control features it offers, what they cost, how easy the dashboard is to use every day, and what the top competitors offer.

    Bitdefender Premium Security Family subscription options:

  • $99.99/year at Bitdefender

Bitdefender parental control review: Plans and pricing

Bitdefender no longer offers its parental control features as a standalone subscription. You’d have to get one of its four family plans. But note that its entire suite of parental control features is available with each of these four plans.

The Total Security Family plan starts at $79.99 for the first year and covers up to 25 devices across five family members. At this price, the cost boils down to around $16 per member per year, which is more affordable than many other parental control applications. Not to forget that, for the price, you also get 24/7 real-time antivirus protection for up to 25 devices, as well as a password manager.

Bitdefender Family pricing

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Next is the Premium Security Plan, which costs $99.99 for the first year and also comes with scam protection, AI-based scam protection, and a VPN with 4,000+ servers in 50+ countries. The Ultimate Security Family Plan and the Ultimate Security Plus Family Plan cost $119.99 and $199.99 for the first year, respectively.

The former comes with dark web monitoring and identity theft protection features such as an identity protection score and real-time breach notifications, while the latter also includes $2 million in identity theft insurance, three-bureau credit monitoring, and other bank, credit card, and investment alerts.

Bitdefender parental control review: Features

One of the standout Bitdefender parental control features is the ability to set screen-time schedules for your children, who would only be able to access their devices during the allowed time intervals.

Along with this, Bitdefender also offers several preset routines: Focus Time, Family Time, and Bedtime, which you can customize as per your child’s daily activity and schedule.

Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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There’s also a pretty handy internet time management feature, which allows you to control how much time your child spends on the internet during a day. A nice addition is the ability to reward extra screen time for your children for responsible online use.

In addition to internet scheduling, parents can also choose to cut off internet access directly on their child’s device using Bitdefender’s Stop Internet feature.

Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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Bitdefender also offers predefined age-appropriate filtering categories to help you filter out inappropriate content such as porn, betting, or online gaming for your children. As with screen time, you can also fine-tune these filters to better suit your child’s day-to-day use.

Apart from category-level filtering, parents can also allowlist or blocklist specific URLs individually, in case you want to go beyond the category selection.

Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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Parents can set up to five child profiles, each with the child’s name, photo, and birth date. Bitdefender automatically applies age-appropriate filtering as soon as the profile is created, which parents can then edit as per their needs.

Along with this, there’s also location tracking, which helps you know where your child is on an interactive map at all times.

Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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Lastly, there’s Safe Search, which lets you remove explicit and harmful results from search engines, as well as YouTube restrictions, which ensure your child only views age-appropriate videos on the platform.

However, note that content filtering and safe browsing require an active VPN connection to function, as per Bitdefender’s listing on the Google Play Store.

Bitdefender parental control review: Interface and in-use

Bitdefender parental control works across Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS. That said, Windows and Android get full, unrestricted enforcement of every feature, whereas macOS and iOS are noticeably more limited, largely due to Apple’s own platform restrictions.

For instance, iOS content filtering runs through Apple’s Screen Time and not Bitdefender’s own engine. Parents have to create a child account through Apple ID, then Bitdefender’s app hooks into Apple’s Screen Time restrictions rather than doing its own independent content filtering.

However, the setup is pretty simple. You just have to download the app on your child’s own device. Unlike other parental control applications, you can’t download the app on your child’s phone remotely – you’ll need physical access to the device to do so.

One thing worth noticing is that, after the 2025 overhaul, parental control is no longer configured within the Bitdefender Central mobile app, but from the Bitdefender Central web dashboard, which can still be accessed through the mobile application.

Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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Once you’re on this dashboard, day-to-day use is genuinely easy. Bitdefender’s Activity Dashboard is filled with several graphs and charts, which allow you to check your child’s phone activity at just a glance.

For example, there’s a bar chart showing their daily internet time over the past few days, as well as a pie chart showing their current day’s internet usage along with their remaining time. The dashboard also gives parents visibility into what’s actually being blocked and when.

Bitdefender parental control dashboard

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The Prevented Content Access panel is a running log of every link blocked on the child’s device over the past 7 or 30 days. This allows you to see whether your filtering settings are actually able to catch anything, or whether your child is repeatedly trying to search for restricted websites on their device.

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