<p>When's the best time to buy a laptop/desktop for college? </p>
<p>Is it cheaper to buy one earlier in the summer or when school's going to start. Like do stores raise the prices near the end of summer because they know kids are going to college and they need laptops or do they lower them for "back to school" sales?</p>
<p>Yea...and plus I don't really need one right now. I can wait until later near the start of school.</p>
<p>For Desktops, you should wait until July 24.
For Laptops, you should either buy now or wait until late August.</p>
<p>And no, I'm not BSing here.</p>
<p>There are two heavily hyped major product launches for CPU's at those times, and these launches make current technology $100-$200 cheaper.</p>