Singapore's laptop-buying calendar has an awkward hole in it this year. The back-to-school campaigns that have been running since mid-August — Challenger's education codes, Harvey Norman's gift-card ladder, the SG61 leftovers — almost all stop on 31 August. COMEX, the country's biggest consumer tech show and the reason a lot of people wait, does not open its doors at Suntec until 3 September. That leaves 1 and 2 September as the only two days in a six-week stretch with no campaign running at all. We checked eight places to buy a laptop in Singapore on their own websites on 22 August 2026 — four brand stores selling direct (HP, Apple, Dell, Lenovo) and four retailers (Challenger, Courts, Harvey Norman, Best Denki) — and pulled out the code, the real number and the actual end date for each. Two things stood out. Courts advertises a vague "10% + additional 8% off sitewide" in text but prints its genuine six-step discount ladder only on a poster image, where the steps turn out to be uneven enough that spending one dollar more can be worth another hundred off. And HP, the store with the lowest entry price on this list, is also the only one whose promotion outlives August entirely.
Eight stores, all checked on their own Singapore sites on 22 August 2026.
> Quick view: cheapest laptop anywhere here is Courts' ASUS Vivobook Go 15 at S$799; biggest stackable cut is HP's `BTSHP`, up to S$250 off, laptops from S$899; and three of the eight promotions end 31 Aug — three days before COMEX opens.
HP's own Singapore store is running **Back to School** with laptops **from S$899** and a code, **BTSHP**, printed directly on its campaign artwork: *"Save up to S$250 more with code BTSHP."* The S$250 is a ceiling, not a flat amount — individual product tiles badge it differently, and on the models we checked the badge reads **Extra S$150 off** on laptops and **Extra S$50 off** on desktops and all-in-ones. On top of that, badged models carry a **FREE 1-year Microsoft 365 licence worth S$155**, and several OmniBook 5 configurations add a **free skills bundle worth S$576–S$577** (HP separately advertises a learning bundle of AI tools, creative apps and online-learning subscriptions worth S$530). Sample live prices on 22 Aug: **OmniBook 5 14-hh0060TU at S$1,799 (U.P. S$2,199, 18% off)**, **14-hh0062TU at S$1,399 (17% off)**. Gaming buyers get a separate track — **HyperX accessories at 30% off** and **free gifts worth up to S$299** at checkout on qualifying gaming orders. There is also a bank stack HP publishes in full: **use code CITI followed by the first six digits of your Citi card**, Singapore-issued Citibank credit cards only, **capped at $100 per transaction and explicitly non-stackable**. The reason HP tops this list is not the headline number, it is the calendar: HP's terms say the promotion **ends 31 October 2026** or while stocks last. Every other back-to-school offer on this page dies on or before 31 August. HP also runs a separate **HP Education Store** you join for student-only pricing, and a Business Store worth up to 8% for companies.
Back to School — laptops from S$899, save up to S$250 more with code BTSHP (badged as extra S$150 off laptops / S$50 off desktops) + free 1-year Microsoft 365 worth S$155. Runs to 31 Oct 2026. Separate Citi stack: code CITI + first 6 digits of card, capped $100, non-stackable.
Code: BTSHP
Valid till 31 Oct 2026
In text, Courts' site says one thing and one thing only: *"Enjoy 10% + additional 8% off sitewide. T&Cs apply."* There is no code, no end date and no linked terms anywhere on the laptop category page. The real offer is on the promotional tile image inside that same category, and it is a **six-step ladder on Laptops & Desktops: $60 off min. $1,000 spend · $100 off min. $1,700 · $150 off min. $2,300 · $250 off min. $2,700 · $350 off min. $4,000 · $450 off min. $5,000**, headlined "Save up to $450 off" with "Conditions apply". **Read the ladder before you read the headline, because the steps are not even.** As a percentage of the threshold they run 6.0%, 5.9%, 6.5%, **9.3%**, 8.75% and 9.0% — the best-value rung by a distance is the **$2,700 one**, and there is a hard cliff at it: a $2,699 basket earns $150, a $2,700 basket earns $250, so **one extra dollar is worth another hundred off**. The same cliff, smaller, sits at $1,700, where $1 more is worth $40 more. The catch that bites at the other end: Courts also has the **cheapest new laptop in this whole roundup, the ASUS Vivobook Go 15 (E1504FA-BQ5605W) at S$799** — and at S$799 you are below the $1,000 rung, so the ladder pays you nothing at all. Its sibling, the **E1504FA-BQ2961W, is S$899 (RRP S$1,099)**. Other live prices: **Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14IRH10 at S$999**, **ASUS Vivobook S 15 OLED S5507QA at S$1,799**, **HP OmniBook 5 14-hh0060TU at S$1,799 (RRP S$2,199)** — the identical machine HP sells at the identical S$1,799 on its own store, except that HP throws in the Microsoft 365 licence and Courts' $1,700 rung takes $100 off. With no published code or expiry, confirm the discount is applied at checkout before you commit.
Laptops & Desktops ladder (from Courts' own category poster): $60 off min $1,000 · $100 off min $1,700 · $150 off min $2,300 · $250 off min $2,700 · $350 off min $4,000 · $450 off min $5,000. Best rung is $2,700 (9.3%). No code and no end date published — confirm at checkout.
Apple runs no promo code and no seasonal sale in Singapore. What it runs instead is a **second storefront at apple.com/sg-edu**, open to students, parents buying for students, and teaching staff, where the same machines simply carry different prices. Checked on 22 August 2026: the **13-inch MacBook Air is S$1,749 on the education store against S$1,899 on the retail store — a flat S$150**, with the next configurations at **S$1,884 (vs S$2,049)** and **S$2,049 (vs S$2,199)**. That is the honest number, and it is worth stating plainly because the saving is usually quoted much higher: bigger figures only appear on expensive MacBook Pro builds, while the entry configurations most students actually buy save S$80–S$150. Layered on top is **Back to School 2026, which gives AirTags free with a Mac or iPad bought at education pricing** — not AirPods, not an Apple Pencil, which is what most guides still say. Two conditions worth knowing before you plan around it. **Not every product earns the gift:** Apple badges only a handful of products as offer-eligible, and the cheaper machines — base iPad, Mac mini, iMac, iPad mini — get education pricing but no AirTags. And **Apple publishes no end date**; the offer is flagged only as limited-time, so there is no September deadline to race, and equally no guarantee it survives the month. This also matters for the rest of this page, because **Apple is excluded from Harvey Norman's gift-card promotion** and generally sits outside retailer discounting — the education store is, in practice, the only way to pay less than list for a Mac in Singapore.
Education pricing — 13-inch MacBook Air S$1,749 (retail S$1,899), a flat S$150 off; next tiers S$1,884 and S$2,049. Back to School 2026 adds free AirTags with an eligible Mac or iPad. No code, no published end date, and cheaper models get the pricing but not the gift.
Challenger's **Education** store is the only place on this list publishing plain percentage codes you can read off the page before you shop, and there are four of them, all badged **17 Aug – 31 Aug 2026, while stocks last**: **BTSNBX5 for 5% off selected PCs and notebooks**, **BTSNBX6 for 6%**, **BTSNBX9 for 9%**, and **BTSNBX31 for 31% off one specific machine — the ASUS Zenbook AI 7-445, 32GB / 1TB, 14-inch OLED touch**. The tiering is by product, not by spend, so the honest way to use this is to find the machine you want first and then see which of the three general codes it qualifies for; the 9% rung is not something you can unlock by spending more. Two terms are worth reading before you click. Challenger states that **purchases made with a promotional code or on an advertised limited set cannot be cancelled or amended** once the order acknowledgement email lands — no change of mind. And the codes sit alongside a separate rotating stack of card-payment vouchers and short flash vouchers (we saw one running only **22–23 August**), so what is on the page today is not necessarily what was there on Monday. Challenger is also a membership retailer, and its online store applies member-exclusive vouchers at checkout rather than showing them on the shelf, which is worth factoring in if you already hold a card. The hard fact to plan around: **every BTSNBX code expires at 23:59 on 31 August 2026**, three days before COMEX opens. See also our guide to Challenger's SG61 Go Beyond vouchers.
Education store codes, 17–31 Aug 2026: BTSNBX5 (5% off selected PCs & notebooks) · BTSNBX6 (6%) · BTSNBX9 (9%) · BTSNBX31 (31% off ASUS Zenbook AI 7-445 32GB/1TB 14" OLED Touch). Orders placed with a code cannot be cancelled or amended.
Code: BTSNBX9
Valid till 31 Aug 2026
Harvey Norman's **Buy More, Save More** runs **13–31 August 2026** and puts a line on every laptop listing: *"Get up to $300 gift card with min spend on Computers products."* The ladder is **$1,000 spend → $100 card, $2,000 → $200, $3,000 → $300**, and the thing the name implies is not true: **all three tiers return exactly 10%**, so buying harder is not rewarded with a better rate — unlike Courts, where the rungs genuinely differ. What decides whether you get anything at all is the small print. **Purchases across different categories cannot be combined**, so a $600 fridge plus a $500 laptop is $1,100 spent and nothing back. There is **one redemption per sales transaction**, so a single $3,000 order caps at one $300 card. The **card expires 30 days from activation**, which makes it a discount on your *next* purchase within a month, not on this one. And the exclusion list removes a large part of what an electronics budget goes on: **Apple, mobile phones and tablets, cameras, gaming consoles, storage devices, projectors and software**, plus Dyson, Bosch, Miele, Sonos, JBL and the Sony 1000X headphones. Laptops themselves are in — live prices on 22 Aug included the **ASUS ExpertBook P1 (P1503CVA-S71586W) at S$818**, the cheapest machine Harvey Norman lists, **Acer Aspire Go 14 at S$999**, **Acer Aspire 14 AI at S$1,099**, **ASUS Vivobook 14 and 16 (Snapdragon X) at S$1,199** and **Lenovo IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 at S$1,249**. Read our full breakdown of the promotion and its exclusions in Harvey Norman's Buy More, Save More.
Buy More, Save More, 13–31 Aug 2026 — $1,000 spend = $100 gift card, $2,000 = $200, $3,000 = $300. Every tier is a flat 10%. Categories cannot be combined, one redemption per transaction, card expires 30 days from activation, and Apple, phones, tablets, cameras and consoles are excluded.
Valid till 31 Aug 2026
Dell sells direct in Singapore and prices individual machines down on a timer rather than running one campaign-wide code. The clearest example live on 22 August: the **Dell 14 (order code SDC1425000101MSGH) at S$1,249 against a S$1,799 starting price — S$550 off, with the offer stamped "Ends Thu, 27 Aug 2026"** on the listing itself. That is an Intel Core 5-120U machine with 16GB DDR5, a 1TB SSD and a 14-inch FHD+ display, free shipping, price inclusive of 9% GST. Underneath the individual cuts sit three standing offers. **Membership Deals give up to 10% instant cash discount and run to 30 October 2026** — the single most durable discount Dell publishes, and worth signing up for before you check out; Dell is also running **2X sign-up bonus points for new members from 14 August to 3 September 2026**. Dell operates a separate **Student Purchase Program** and a Member Purchase Program, both linked from every product page. And on the services side, **up to 35% instant cash redemption on 3-Year Dell Care Plus or 3-Year ProSupport ends 1 September**, with smaller instant savings on 2-year ProSupport and 3-year accidental damage cover ending the same day. One structural note that catches people out: **Dell states that pre-bundled products in Singapore are not customisable**, so the discounted configuration is the configuration — you cannot add RAM to a deal machine and keep the deal price. Promotional pricing is also capped at a maximum order of 10 desktops or laptops.
Dell 14 (SDC1425000101MSGH) S$1,249, U.P. S$1,799 — save S$550, ends Thu 27 Aug 2026. Membership Deals up to 10% instant cash discount to 30 Oct 2026; 2X sign-up bonus for new members 14 Aug – 3 Sep. Up to 35% back on 3-Year Care Plus / ProSupport ends 1 Sep. Pre-bundled configs are not customisable.
Valid till 27 Aug 2026
Lenovo's Singapore deals page is worth visiting for one code and worth reading carefully for everything else. The code that works as stated: **LEGION5OFFSG, an extra 5% off the Legion gaming series**, with a free Legion Ultimate Support upgrade on customisable models. After that it gets murky. **Lenovo Education is advertised twice on the same page with two different numbers** — one panel says *"Register NOW for S$100 OFF (min S$2,000+ spend)"*, another says *"Sign up for Lenovo Education to get an extra 10% OFF & up to $150 welcome discount"*. Those are not the same offer, and Lenovo does not reconcile them; if you are planning around a specific figure, register first and read what the account actually shows you before you build a basket. The page has a second, more visible defect: **the deal tiles across the whole page display the literal template text "Save up to {savingPercent} off" and "Shop All ({count})"** rather than real numbers, on every category from Laptop Deals to Monitor Deals — the discount figures are simply not rendering, so there is no headline percentage to trust on this page today. What is concrete: **Lenovo Pro for business gives 6% off a first business purchase plus up to $500 in rewards points**, free to join; the rewards programme gives **1,000 bonus points on a first purchase** and **$20 for referring a friend who spends $20**; and there is a Fast-Ship collection with 2–4 business day delivery and free shipping on all accessory orders. No end date is published on any of it.
LEGION5OFFSG — extra 5% off the Legion gaming series. Lenovo Education is quoted two ways on the same page: S$100 off min S$2,000 spend, and separately extra 10% off plus up to $150 welcome discount. Lenovo Pro (business) 6% off first purchase. No end dates published.
Code: LEGION5OFFSG
Best Denki's contribution this weekend is narrow, time-boxed and gated, and it is the shortest-lived offer on this page: **LENOVO WEEKEND VOUCHERS, up to $100 off selected Lenovo laptops and desktops, MEMBERS ONLY, "log in to reveal your code", ending Sunday 23:59 while vouchers last** — that is **24 August 2026**. If you are not already a Best Denki member the voucher is not visible to you at all, and the code itself is only exposed after login, so there is nothing to compare against until you have an account. What you can compare is the shelf price, and Best Denki's notebook aisle is priced competitively on Lenovo in particular, which is presumably why the voucher is pointed there. Live on 22 August: **Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14IWC11 at S$1,349 (U.P. S$1,449)**, **IdeaPad Slim 5 16AGP11 at S$1,649 (U.P. S$1,749)**, **IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 14IPH11 at S$1,699 (U.P. S$1,849)** and **14AGP11 at S$1,699 (U.P. S$1,899)**, **Yoga Slim 7 14AGP11 at S$1,899**, **ThinkPad E14 G7 at S$1,899 (U.P. S$1,949)** and **Yoga 7 2-in-1 14IPH11 at S$2,749**. Non-Lenovo, the cheapest thing on the aisle is the **ASUS ExpertBook P1 P1503CVA-S72808W at S$1,099**, matched by the **Acer Aspire Go 15 AI at S$1,099 (U.P. S$1,299)**; the **ASUS Zenbook UX3405CA-QL362W is S$2,349 (U.P. S$3,199)**, the largest single markdown we found there. Best Denki also lists instalment plans and a Safety 5 premium warranty programme separately from the voucher. Our recent coverage: Best Denki's SG61 TV sale.
LENOVO WEEKEND VOUCHERS — up to $100 off selected Lenovo laptops and desktops, MEMBERS ONLY, log in to reveal your code. Ends Sunday 24 Aug 2026 at 23:59, while vouchers last.
Valid till 24 Aug 2026
| Store | Code | What it is really worth | Cheapest laptop seen | Ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP Singapore | BTSHP | Up to S$250; badged extra S$150 off laptops, S$50 off desktops + free MS 365 (S$155) | S$899 | 31 Oct 2026 |
| Courts | None published | $60/$100/$150/$250/$350/$450 off at $1,000/$1,700/$2,300/$2,700/$4,000/$5,000 spend — best rung 9.3% | S$799 | Not published |
| Apple Education | None (separate store) | Flat S$150 off 13-inch MacBook Air (S$1,749 vs S$1,899) + free AirTags on eligible models | S$1,749 (MacBook Air) | Not published |
| Challenger Education | BTSNBX5 / 6 / 9 / 31 | 5%, 6% or 9% off selected PCs and notebooks; 31% off one ASUS Zenbook | Varies by code | 31 Aug 2026 |
| Harvey Norman | None (auto at till) | Gift card at a flat 10% — $100/$200/$300 at $1,000/$2,000/$3,000; expires 30 days after activation; Apple excluded | S$818 | 31 Aug 2026 |
| Dell Singapore | None (member sign-in) | S$550 off the Dell 14; up to 10% members' instant cash discount to 30 Oct | S$1,249 | 27 Aug 2026 (Dell 14) |
| Lenovo Singapore | LEGION5OFFSG | Extra 5% off Legion; Education quoted as both S$100 off min S$2,000 and extra 10% + up to $150 | Not stated (tiles unrendered) | Not published |
| Best Denki | Members only, hidden until login | Up to $100 off selected Lenovo laptops and desktops | S$1,099 | 24 Aug 2026, 23:59 |
Search "laptop promotion Singapore" in late August 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.
Two findings changed how we ranked them.
The discount is often not in the text. Courts' laptop category page says, in words, only *"Enjoy 10% + additional 8% off sitewide. T&Cs apply."* — no code, no date, no link to any terms. The actual offer, a six-step ladder running from $60 to $450, exists only as text baked into a poster image inside the same page. If you read the page and not the picture, you would never learn that the $2,700 rung is worth almost twice the rate of the $1,700 one.
The end date matters more than the percentage. A 9% code that expires in nine days is worth less to someone still deciding than a 5% code that runs to the end of October. That is why HP tops this list despite Challenger publishing a bigger number.
Line the expiry dates up and a hole appears in the calendar.
So the two worst days to buy a laptop in this whole stretch are 1 and 2 September — after the back-to-school codes die and before the show floor opens. If you are within a few days of that window, either buy before 31 August with a code in hand, or wait the extra 48 hours.
One caveat on waiting. As of 22 August, COMEX's own FAQ still answers the question "What brands will be at COMEX 2026?" with *"Stay tuned for our list of participating brands, coming soon."* No exhibitor list and no brand-level deals have been published yet, so nobody can tell you today whether the show will beat the code you already have. Historically the show's advantage is bundled freebies and floor-only bulk pricing rather than deeper discounts on mainstream laptops — and the countdown clock on COMEX's own homepage was reading 49 days when we checked it, twelve days before the show opens, so treat the site as a work in progress.
Every figure on this page is the price shown on the store's own Singapore site on 22 August 2026, inclusive of 9% GST where the store states it (Dell and Harvey Norman say so explicitly; the others display consumer-facing prices that already include it). Stock, configuration availability and promotional pricing all move daily on these sites — three of the eight offers here are dated to expire within nine days of publication — so treat every number as a checkpoint and confirm at the basket.
Only if you can wait past 3 September, and only with your eyes open. COMEX 2026 runs 3–6 September 2026 at Suntec Convention Centre, Levels 3 and 4, free entry, Level 3 from 11am and Level 4 from 12pm, both closing at 9pm. But as of 22 August the organiser had not published an exhibitor list — its own FAQ still says the list is "coming soon" — so there is no way to compare a show deal against the codes running now. Meanwhile Challenger's BTSNBX codes and Harvey Norman's gift-card promotion both end on 31 August, which means 1 and 2 September have neither the back-to-school offers nor the show. If you need the machine in August, buy with a code. If you can wait, waiting until 3 September costs you nothing extra, but skip 1–2 September entirely.
Of the eight stores we checked on 22 August 2026, the lowest price on a new laptop was the ASUS Vivobook Go 15 (E1504FA-BQ5605W) at S$799 at Courts, with a 15.6-inch display, AMD Ryzen 3, 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Harvey Norman's cheapest was the ASUS ExpertBook P1 (P1503CVA-S71586W) at S$818, and HP's back-to-school range starts at S$899. Note the trap at Courts: its discount ladder starts at a $1,000 minimum spend, so the S$799 machine earns nothing from the promotion — the S$899 Vivobook Go 15 (E1504FA-BQ2961W, RRP S$1,099) does not reach it either.
Four sets, all read off the retailers' own pages on 22 August 2026. Challenger's education store lists BTSNBX5 (5% off selected PCs and notebooks), BTSNBX6 (6%), BTSNBX9 (9%) and BTSNBX31 (31% off the ASUS Zenbook AI 7-445 32GB/1TB 14-inch OLED touch), all valid 17–31 August. HP's store carries BTSHP for up to S$250 more off, badged per model as an extra S$150 off laptops or S$50 off desktops, running to 31 October 2026. Lenovo publishes LEGION5OFFSG for an extra 5% off its Legion gaming series. And HP runs a Citi stack where the code is the word CITI followed by the first six digits of your Citi card, capped at $100 per transaction and non-stackable. Courts, Harvey Norman, Dell, Apple and Best Denki publish no public code at all — their discounts are applied automatically, at the till, or after member login.
It is worth a flat S$150 on the 13-inch MacBook Air — S$1,749 on apple.com/sg-edu against S$1,899 on the retail store, checked 22 August 2026 — with the next two configurations at S$1,884 and S$2,049 against S$2,049 and S$2,199. That is smaller than the savings usually quoted; larger figures apply only to expensive MacBook Pro builds. The store is open to university students, students accepted to university, parents buying for them, and teaching and administrative staff at any level. On top of the pricing, Back to School 2026 adds free AirTags with an eligible Mac or iPad — not AirPods, which is what most guides still list. Check the eligibility badge before you count on the gift: the cheaper machines, including the base iPad, Mac mini, iMac and iPad mini, get the education price but not the AirTags. Apple publishes no end date for the offer.
That sentence appears on Courts' laptop pages, but the page publishes no code, no end date and no link to the terms behind it, so there is nothing to verify it against. What Courts does publish, on the promotional tile inside its own Laptops & Desktops category, is a specific six-step ladder: $60 off a minimum $1,000 spend, $100 off $1,700, $150 off $2,300, $250 off $2,700, $350 off $4,000 and $450 off $5,000, headlined "Save up to $450 off" with "Conditions apply". Read as percentages those rungs are 6.0%, 5.9%, 6.5%, 9.3%, 8.75% and 9.0% — nowhere near 18%, and uneven enough that the $2,700 rung is the one to aim for. Because no code or expiry is published, confirm the discount actually appears in your basket before paying.
