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Dell Labor Day sale: save up to $250 on a Dell XPS deal today

You’ll want to hurry to catch the Dell Labor Day sale – there are some fantastic prices on a range of XPS, Inspiron and G5 gaming laptops right now but they’ll all be gone by tonight. You won’t be disappointed, trust us – not only does the Dell Labor Day sale feature some of the…

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Dell Labor Day sale: save up to $250 on a Dell XPS deal today

You’ll want to hurry to catch the Dell Labor Day sale – there are some fantastic prices on a range of XPS, Inspiron and G5 gaming laptops right now but they’ll all be gone by tonight. You won’t be disappointed, trust us – not only does the Dell Labor Day sale feature some of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen on some of our favorite ultrabooks, but also some mighty fine choices for those on a budget and gamers too. If that sounds good to you, you’re in the right place – just below you’ll find our highlight picks, including the latest Dell XPS deals available for today only.

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Speaking of Dell XPS deals – prices start at just $699 right now for a 2019 Dell XPS 13 Touch. That’s only $20 more expensive than the cheapest Dell XPS we’ve ever seen and a great offer on an entry-level model which doesn’t normally see such a hefty ($150) discount.

for $1,049.99 (was $1,249.99) right now. That’s an outstanding price on a machine that’s packing a 10th gen Intel Core i7 processor and 512GB SSD. Even more powerful is this stunning RTX 2060 equipped Dell G5 15 Gaming Laptop for just $1,149.99 (was $1,409.99) – a fantastic $260 saving on a machine fully ready to tackle the next-gen of games.

We’re rounding up all these Dell XPS deals in the Labor Day sales just below, but you’ll also find plenty more cheap laptop deals available now as well.

Dell Labor Day sale: cheap laptop deals

Dell Inspiron 13 5000 13-inch laptop: $799.99 $679.99 at Dell
Save $120 on a fully specced out Dell Inspiron 13 – a machine that will give any XPS a run for its money at a fraction of the price. Inside this one’s a 10th gen Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, making this one a fantastic choice for an inexpensive (but excellent) working from home machine.

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Dell Inspiron 17 3000 17-inch laptop: $799.99 $719.99 at Dell
This Dell Inspiron is a great choice if you’re going to be relatively static with your laptop with an expansive 17-inch screen, perfect for lengthy work or streaming sessions. An Intel Core i7-1065G7 will keep everything running nice and smoothly as well, as will the 8GB of RAM and you’ll also have plenty of storage space thanks to the 2TB hard drive.
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Dell Labor Day sale: Dell XPS deals

Dell XPS 13 touchscreen laptop: $849.99 $699.99 at Dell
This Dell XPS 13 Touch is only $20 more expensive than the cheapest XPS 13 deal we’ve ever seen. Even though this is for the entry-level spec, rocking a 10th gen Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, this is still a really premium laptop for the money.

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Dell XPS 13: $1,249 $1,049.99 at Dell
Save $200 on one of our favorite Dell Labor Day sales this year on a stunning upgraded Dell XPS 13. This is one powerful machine thanks to its hexa-core 10th generation i7 processor, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. Those are specs that you don’t often see at $1,000, which makes it surprisingly good value to boot.
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Dell XPS 15: $1,849.99 $1,599.99 at Dell
Alternatively, go one step further with this luscious Dell XPS 15 – now receiving a whole $250 off thanks to the Dell Labor Day sale. Onboard this top-end laptop is a gorgeous 4K OLED screen paired with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, which means this laptop isn’t just amazing for media tasks, but it’ll also handle a light spot of gaming too. There’s also an Intel Core i7 in this beast, alongside 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, which rounds off the specs nicely.
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2020 Dell XPS 13 touchscreen laptop: $1,899.99 $1,749.99 at Dell
You’re upping the price and dropping the graphics card with this brand new 2020 Dell XPS 13 but gaining a near bezel-less screen design – one of the most impressive around. A $150 saving thanks to the Dell Labor Day sale means you’re scoring a fantastic machine for less here, which includes a 10th generation i7 processor, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD.
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Dell Labor Day sale: gaming laptop deals

Dell G5 15.6-inch gaming laptop: $1,409.99 $1,149.99 at Dell
You’ll not only be set for gaming domination with this brand new Dell G5 15, but saving a whole $260 thanks to the Dell Labor Day sale right now. This one’s got an RTX 2060 graphics card, 144Hz display, Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB – absolutely stellar specs for the price and a level of power that will handle most modern games with suitable aplomb.
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Dell G5 15.6-inch gaming laptop: $1,359.99 $1,099.99 at Dell
Want to spend a bit less? The slightly more budget orientated GTX 1660Ti equipped Dell G5 15 is also on sale in the Dell Labor Day sale. While you’re forgoing the RTX graphics card here, the slightly older GTX design is still fantastic for 1080p gaming and all your other specs remain the same – still super speedy.
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More Labor Day sales

You’ll find plenty more Labor Day sales available below, but you can also check out the latest Best Buy Labor Day sales as well. 

  • 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 – use promo code 50OFF699 to get a $50 on all XPS laptops over $699
  • 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 – 45% off everything with code NEW45
  • 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

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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:

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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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Microsoft Defender briefly decided Google Search was malware

You can pay every month for Office 365’s productivity tools, but you still can’t escape Microsoft Defender’s habit of turning everyday links into fake security alerts. On September 2, Office 365 subscribers ran into an unusual incident: Redmond’s endpoint antivirus engine began flagging Google Search results as potentially malicious URLs.Read Entire Article…

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You can pay every month for Office 365’s productivity tools, but you still can’t escape Microsoft Defender’s habit of turning everyday links into fake security alerts. On September 2, Office 365 subscribers ran into an unusual incident: Redmond’s endpoint antivirus engine began flagging Google Search results as potentially malicious URLs.Read Entire Article…
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5 Windows Security Settings You Should Never Skip Over

Windows has a range of authentication methods for accessing your device, a firewall, an antivirus, a way to encrypt your drives and more…

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Watch out for this fake Face ID Apple Pay pop-up scam

Macworld The security, antivirus, and VPN company Malwarebytes has an interesting post on its Malwarebytes Labs blog detailing a new and sophisticated scam. The web-based trick is meant to make users think that they just made a big payment with Apple Pay, with the goal being to trick them into calling a fake “Apple Support”

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Watch out for this fake Face ID Apple Pay pop-up scam

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The security, antivirus, and VPN company Malwarebytes has an interesting post on its Malwarebytes Labs blog detailing a new and sophisticated scam.

The web-based trick is meant to make users think that they just made a big payment with Apple Pay, with the goal being to trick them into calling a fake “Apple Support” number…
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