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Until the end of the day, Windows 11 Pro is only $11.23 9 August 2026 at 09:00

Until the end of the day, Windows 11 Pro is only $11.23

9 August 2026 at 09:00

TL;DR: Today only: get Windows 11 Pro on sale for $11.23 with code AUG25.

If Mac users want to run Windows apps, it’s easier to just set up a Windows operating system with something like Parallels Pro, but that does mean you still have to pay for the OS you’re licensing. Instead of dropping the full $199 on Windows 11 Pro, you can get it right here for only $11.23, but this sale ends today.

Pro adds a range of useful upgrades over older versions of Windows. BitLocker encrypts the drive on your virtual machine, so anything sensitive stays locked down. Hyper-V and Windows Sandbox let you spin up more virtual machines and test risky apps in isolation, away from your main setup. Azure AD connects you to a company network when work calls for it.

You also get the full Windows 11 experience running next to macOS. Snap layouts arrange your windows, DirectX 12 Ultimate handles the games that skip the Mac, biometric login is backed by TPM 2.0, and Copilot sits in the taskbar for quick answers and page summaries. One license installs on a single machine and stays yours for good.

You don’t have to pay full price for Windows anymore.

Use code AUG25 to get Windows 11 Pro for $11.23.

Sale ends August 9 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true? 8 August 2026 at 13:00

Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

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By: Antonio G. Di Benedetto

8 August 2026 at 13:00

A Chuwi UniBook laptop, facing away from the camera to show its lid. It’s sitting on a glss table admist a plush meeting space filled with colorful couches and chairs. — Cute name, especially if it were a wookiee. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even though it's gone up to $699, it's still the laptop to beat.

So when little-known Chinese brand Chuwi announced a $450 Windows laptop with an aluminum build and a brand-new Intel Wildcat Lake processor, it sounded too good to be true.

It is.