Staples Launches Back-to-School Season With Aggressive Laptop Deals

With 2017 graduation season coming to a close, Staples isn’t wasting time as it tries to grab a share of budgets for the 2017-18 school year. Cheap laptops are some of the notable deals Staples is hawking at Black Friday-like prices in its back-to-school campaign that launched Monday. Standouts include an Acer 11-inch Chromebook at $179, Dell Inspiron 11-inch convertible PC ($199), HP 15-inch notebook with an Intel Pentium processor ($249), Lenovo 15-inch laptop with Pentium processor ($259) and HP 15-inch laptop with an Intel Core i3 processor ($299).