The long-awaited Best Buy Black Friday ad[1] has dropped, and with it come some of the first deals we've seen this season on Apple Mac systems and Microsoft's Surface devices. There are also bargains for those with smaller budgets in the market for a new computer.
For example, Best Buy is matching Walmart's deal[2] for a $99 11.6-inch Samsung Chromebook with Intel Celeron processor, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage. It's a doorbuster when Best Buy opens on Thanksgiving at 5 p.m., as is another configuration with twice the RAM and storage for $129. For $10 less is a doorbuster for an Asus Windows laptop with Celeron CPU, 2 gigs of RAM, 32GB of storage, and 11.6-inch display.
Still under $200 is a Friday 8 a.m. doorbuster of a 15.6-inch Lenovo 130-15AST laptop with an AMD A6 processor, 4 gigs of RAM, and 500GB hard drive for $199.99. A final option is another Chromebook, also a Lenovo (the 2-in-1 MT8173c with white chassis), with MediaTek processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and 11.6-inch touchscreen for $179.99.
What many consider the ultimate Chromebook -- Google's own Pixelbook -- gets a rare discount from Best Buy on Black Friday. It's slashing the price $300 on the Core i5 model (8GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, 12.3-inch touchscreen) to $699 -- even more savings than the deal offered over the summer[3].
Deals on Apple's Macs are few and far between on Black Friday, but Best Buy is reliably one of the rare outlets that offer them. A pair of them are doorbusters: a 21.5-inch iMac with Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a terabyte hard drive for $899