We have now checked these eight stores four times: 22 August, 5 September, 16 September and 2 October 2026. This time the cheap end moved sideways rather than down. The S$569 Acer Aspire Lite 14 we found at Courts is now the same S$569 at Harvey Norman and Best Denki, and the S$599 ASUS Vivobook Go 15 we wrote off in September is back at S$599 at three stores. Meanwhile every September code has run out, including Challenger's SEPNB200 and HP's HP99TECH. This guide lists what is actually live on 2 October, the real number and the end date for each store, all read off the stores' own Singapore sites.
Eight stores, all re-checked on their own Singapore sites on 2 October 2026.
> Quick view: cheapest laptop here is the Acer Aspire Lite 14 at S$569, now the same price at Courts, Harvey Norman and Best Denki; the ASUS Vivobook Go 15 is back at S$599 at three stores; the dated deal worth acting on is Harvey Norman's extra 5-10% from S$900 (to 5 Oct); Courts' Pre-10.10 10% off ended on 4 Oct. Every September code has expired.
Why this roundup exists
Search "laptop promotion Singapore" and almost every result is an aggregator repeating a headline percentage without the code, the threshold or the end date attached to it. Those three things are what decide whether an offer is worth anything to you, and all three are published, just not always in the place you would look. So on 22 August 2026 we opened all eight stores' own Singapore websites, read the promotional terms rather than the banners, and wrote down the code, the real value and the expiry for each. On 5 September we went back and did it again, on 16 September a third time, and on 2 October a fourth.
What changed at our 2 October check
Our fourth pass, sixteen days after the third. The cheap end moved sideways and every September code ran out.
- The S$569 floor is now a trade price. The Acer Aspire Lite 14 (AL14-32P-C5BX) is S$569 at Courts, Harvey Norman and Best Denki. On 16 September only Courts had it.
- The S$599 Vivobook came back. The ASUS Vivobook Go 15 (E1504FA-BQ5605W) went from S$599 to S$799 in mid-September and is S$599 again at Courts, Challenger and Harvey Norman. The Vivobook Go 14 (E1404FA-EB1791W) is S$599 at all three too.
- Every September code expired. Challenger's SEPNB200, SEPNB100, SEPMIN30NB and SEPMIN69NB ran to 30 September and its voucher panel now lists none; HP's 9.9 sale and HP99TECH are gone; Courts' MID26 ended on 27 September.
- New dated offers. Courts' Pre-10.10 Sale (10% off a $99 spend, 28 September to 4 October, now ended), Harvey Norman's Level Up Your Savings (an extra 5%, 7% or 10% from S$900, capped at S$600, to 5 October) and Lenovo's 10.10 Flash Sale (10% cashback rewards, undated).
- Best Denki reversed. Its S$1,149 ASUS Vivobook 15 is back at S$1,799 and its LG Gram 14 builds went up by S$200 to S$400.
- Apple and Dell held. Apple's education prices are unchanged; Dell has no dated board, but its members' 10% runs to 30 October.
What changed at our 16 September check
Eleven days on, the direction of travel reversed. Five of the eight moved, and four of those moves undid something we had reported as a gain.
- Courts, both ways at once. The ASUS Vivobook Go 15 (E1504FA-BQ5605W) went from S$599 back to S$799 with no markdown, and Challenger lists the same model at the same S$799, so this was a trade-wide campaign price ending rather than one retailer changing its mind. But the floor is lower than either number: the Acer Aspire Lite 14 (AL14-32P-C5BX) at S$569, down from S$769.
- Courts' ladder came back. The flat "$9 off every $90 spent" is gone, and code `COM` now publishes the identical six rungs we reported as withdrawn on 5 September: $60 off $1,000, $100 off $1,700, $150 off $2,300, $250 off $2,700, $350 off $4,000 and $450 off $5,000. Two more codes sit beside it, `GET` and `MID26`, and none of the three stack.
- HP went the other way. Its entry laptop is back to S$899 (HP Laptop 14-ep1008TU, from S$1,299), which is the same floor its back-to-school range had in August. `HP99TECH` is unchanged.
- Challenger had a bigger code all along. `SEPNB200`, $200 off selected notebooks, has been running since 1 September and we named `SEPNB100` instead. Its three min-spend codes, which we recorded as dead on 13 September, were reissued on 15 September with a 30 September deadline.
- Harvey Norman's Supercharged Sale expired at noon on 15 September. The cart discount survives under the Ultimate Tech Show, 7 to 16 September, which closes today.
- Best Denki's headline cut reversed. The LG Gram 14 we said was the only cut worth crossing town for, S$2,699 from S$3,499, is back at S$3,499 and out of stock. Its entry price fell to S$849 instead, against the S$1,199 we published.
- Dell and Apple held. Dell's board is unchanged and stamped to 17 September. Apple has not moved a price, but its AirTags gift now carries a published deadline of 24 September.
The lesson is the one the prices keep teaching: a price that fell during a campaign is a campaign price, and it goes back up when the campaign ends. Before quoting any figure on this page, check the model code rather than the family name, because on both the Vivobook Go 15 and the LG Gram 14 the discount moved to a different order code rather than disappearing from the range.
What changed between 22 August and 5 September
Six of the eight stores changed their offer completely. Here is the whole set of moves in one place.
- HP. Back to School and code `BTSHP` withdrawn, along with the 31 October end date that made HP our top pick in August. Replaced by the 9.9 Online Tech Sale and code `HP99TECH`, badged per model at S$150, S$600, S$800 or S$1,000 off. Entry price up from S$899 to S$1,299.
- Courts. Six-step ladder withdrawn. Replaced by "$9 off every $90 spent", a flat 10% with no minimum. Cheapest laptop down S$200, from S$799 to S$599.
- Challenger. All six `BTSNBX` codes withdrawn on schedule. Replaced by `COMEX10`, `COMEX35`, `COMEX70`, `COMNB100`, `COMNB200` and `COMNB300` to 6 September, then a `COMEXBONUS` set to 13 September; by 14 September only `SEPNB100` ($100 off selected notebooks, to 30 September) was left for laptops.
- Harvey Norman. Buy More, Save More gift card ended 31 August. Replaced by The Supercharged Sale, 3 to 14 September, paying 8% or 12% as cash in the cart.
- Dell. The Dell 14 board moved from 3 September to 10 September, then the S$949 deal ended; by 14 September the cheapest markdown was the Dell 15 at S$929, to 17 September.
- Lenovo. `LEGION5OFFSG` restored to the deals page. Education store now quotes one discount instead of two.
- Best Denki. Lenovo voucher expired 31 August with no replacement. Cheapest notebook up from S$1,099 to S$1,199.
- Apple. Nothing moved.
Two patterns are worth taking away from that list. The first is that an end date published by a store is not a promise it will keep. HP told us in August that its code ran to 31 October; it pulled the whole campaign in early September instead. The second is that withdrawing a complicated offer often makes buyers better off. Courts' flat 10% beats the ladder it replaced at every rung the ladder published, and Harvey Norman's cart discount beats a gift card that expired 30 days after activation.
COMEX 2026 is over
The show ran 3 to 6 September 2026 at Suntec Convention Centre, Levels 3 and 4, free entry, Level 3 from 11am and Level 4 from 12pm, both to 9pm. This is its 35th year, and the promotion is built around that number: $35 price points, 35% discounts, special prices for the first 35 customers and stock capped at 35 units. The show floor and Challenger's `COMNB` codes both closed on 6 September, and the `COMEXBONUS` codes that followed ran out on 13 September. Every date that followed it has now passed too. The ones still running on 5 October are Harvey Norman's Level Up Your Savings to 5 October, Dell's double rewards to 15 October and Dell's members' 10% to 30 October. Our separate COMEX 2026 deals guide has the verified brand-by-brand list.
How to choose, in order
- Fix the machine first, then hunt the code. Almost every code on this page is product-scoped: HP's per-model badges, Challenger's "selected notebooks", Best Denki's member pricing. Picking the store first and the laptop second gets you the discount you can reach rather than the laptop you need.
- Convert every threshold offer into a percentage before you compare. Challenger's COMEX basket codes looked like a ladder going up and were actually a ladder going down: 10.0% at $100, 8.75% at $400, 7.0% at $999. A flat notebook code such as the SEPNB200 ($200 off) it ran in September is worth more than any of them on a laptop-sized spend, and Courts' returned ladder has the same shape: its best rung, $450 off $5,000, is 9.0%, while its first rung, $60 off $1,000, is 6.0%.
- If it is a Mac, the education store is the whole game. Apple does not take part in retailer discounting. S$150 off a MacBook Air with free AirTags is the offer, and there is no better one.
- Prefer cash in the cart to a gift card. Harvey Norman's switch from a card expiring 30 days after activation to a straight 6%, 8% or 12% off in the cart is a real improvement, because a card is only worth its face value if you had a second purchase planned anyway. The badge outlived the campaign it launched under, which is worth knowing when a sale page says it has ended.
- Join the free membership before checkout, not after. Dell's 10% instant cash discount and Best Denki's member pricing are both free to join and neither can be applied retroactively.
- Read what a "free gift" is worth in cash. HP's free Microsoft 365 licence and its S$530 skills bundle are things you would otherwise pay for; a bundled bag or mouse usually is not.
- Do not sit on a Lenovo cart. Lenovo's discounts are eCoupons with a claim limit, and the store's own message when they run out is that the coupon has been fully claimed.
A note on prices and GST
Every figure on this page is the price shown on the store's own Singapore site on 2 October 2026, inclusive of 9% GST where the store states it (HP and Dell say so explicitly; the others display consumer-facing prices that already include it). Stock, configuration codes and per-model badges change without notice, so treat every number here as the price we saw rather than a quote.
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