Best Labor Day laptop deals to beat RAMageddon: Hand-picked deals on Apple, HP, and Dell

The best Labor Day laptop deals at a glance: Best MacBook deal Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M5, 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD) $1,699 (save $100) Get Deal Best Windows laptop deal HP OmniBook 3 16 (Snapdragon X, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) $599.99 (save $550) Get Deal Best Chromebook deal Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra, 12GB RAM, 256GB UFS) $579 (save $170) Get Deal The ongoing memory crisis means higher prices for the tech we've come to depend on.

Laptops have been hit especially hard by "RAMageddon," with PC makers like Dell, Lenovo, and Acer raising prices to reflect rising component costs.

Even Apple marked up its MacBooks by at least $100 apiece this summer. (Gone are the days of the $599 MacBook Neo.) The current state of the market makes shopping sales feel all the more important.

Your last big chance to snag a deeply discounted laptop before Black Friday comes with this weekend's Labor Day sales.

Below, we've rounded up the best Labor Day laptop deals we could find, including discounts on MacBooks, Windows laptops , and a very nice Chromebook we've tested.

Best MacBook deal Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M5, 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD) $1,699 at Amazon and Best Buy $1,799 Save $100 Get Deal The 13-inch M5 MacBook Air is our favorite MacBook for college students, as it's super portable and a little cheaper than its 15-inch brother.

It's a fabulous ultraportable with a crisp, colorful display, amazing speakers, and blazing-fast performance.

This upgraded model, with 24GB of RAM and a terabyte of storage, should last you well past graduation.

Amazon and Best Buy currently have it on sale for $1,699, or $100 off.

Heads up: If you have a valid student ID, you'll get $100 off and a free $100 gift card if you buy this MacBook directly through the Apple Store during its Back to School sale (live through Sept.

24).

However, it won't ship until late September or early October.

If you need it sooner, Amazon (with Prime) and Best Buy were both advertising next- or two-day shipping at the time of writing.

Read Mashable's full review of the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air (M5).