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If you're looking to treat yourself or a loved one to a new laptop without breaking the bank, there are plenty of early Black Friday deals worth considering. Even better, there's a discount on what we reckon is the best laptop for most people and the best laptop for college students. Apple's M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM has dropped to its lowest price to date. The laptop is available for $899, which is $200 off the list price.
This is a 13-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of storage. Other configurations with more storage space are on sale too. One with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD is available for
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Nintendo just dropped details on its various Black Friday promotions, all of which go live on November 24 and end on November 30. These include fairly steep discounts on first-party Switch titles, which rarely happens. The deals will be available at retailers like Best Buy, GameSpot, Target and Walmart, though it doesn't look like the Nintendo eShop will host these sales.
Perhaps the jewel in Black Friday's crown is a $20 discount on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The game is normally $70, so this drops the price down to $50. The game is an absolute blast and builds on all of the good stuff originally introduced in Breath of the Wild. This time, however, new abilities allow for even more unique solutions to puzzles.
The sale also applies to the long-gestating Pikmin 4 and the sublimely creative Super Mario Maker 2. Both will be available for $40. Animal Crossing: New Horizons,
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Black Friday might still be two weeks away, but retailers like Walmart are already rolling out hot deals just like this.
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November is in full swing, which means Black Friday is right around the corner. But the days in which you had to wait for Black Friday proper to get good deals have long been behind us. The holiday shopping season is effectively the entire month of November now, with early Black Friday deals already popping up across the web (and in some stores). We're starting to see deep discounts on a bunch of your favorite tech we've tested this year, which means you can start crossing things off your to-buy list right now.
If you're holding out for the best of the best deals, we recommend holding tight until the week before Thanksgiving to see the offerings then, but make no mistake, the sales already available are some of the best of the year. These are the best early Black Friday deals we could find; we'll be updating this post regularly throughout November, so check back for the latest discounts.
Engadget's top picks
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Apple tech can be hard to find on sale, so don't miss some of the year's best offers on MacBooks, iPads, AirPods and more.
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We're already seeing some great discounts on power banks from the likes of Mophie and Anker, two highly respected names in the portable charging game. We'll continue to track down and highlight the best power bank deals leading up to and during Black Friday.
Best early Black Friday power banks deals
Anker 633 MagGo Battery, 10,000mAh/1x USB-A/1x USB-C/MagSafe charging, $39.99 (27% off on Amazon)
Mregb Solar Charger, 42,800mAh/2x USB-A/1x USB-C/Flashlight/Solar charging panel, $29.97 (67% off on Amazon)
INIU Slim Portable Charger, 10,000mAh/USB-C in and out, $17.99 (40% off on Amazon)
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This Asus laptop features an Intel Core i7-13620H processor and 16GB of DDR5 RAM, so you're going to be able to run pretty much any app or game and multitask like a pro. If you feel the 16GB isn't enough, you can swap out the two RAM sticks and upgrade to 32GB later.
But the best part is that this laptop features a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, which is fantastic at this price. It's rare for an RTX 4070 laptop to drop below a grand, so consider this akin to a miracle. With it, you can push graphics settings to the max without batting an eyelash, and those games will look great on the 1080p IPS display with 144Hz of refresh.
There's a 1TB SSD on board this laptop, too, so that's plenty of room for any kind of content you intend to keep on there. From games to photos to documents to videos, you're good to go.
If you've been waiting to snag a top-tier gaming laptop for the price of a mid-range option, your day has come. Grab this Asus TUF 15 right now at Best Buy (was $1,400, now $1,000) while you can!
Save $400 on this top-tier RTX 4070 gaming laptop
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Anker makes a lot of our favorite charging gear, not only because their products tend to perform quite well, but also because there are options for all kinds of budgets. Black Friday tech deals can present good opportunities to get some of Anker's more expensive gear for less, and we're already starting to see solid Black Friday Anker deals. For example, the 200W Prime Power Bank is 41 percent off right now and down to $110 — and this includes the power brick and its dedicated charging base.
Anker's 200W portable charger is our choice for best premium power bank thanks to features like charging an iPhone in an average of one hour and 48 minutes. One of the best parts of the power bank is its sleek screen, which shows the power coming in or out and how much battery the accessory is holding. This feature is much more exact than the four dots on my cheaper (but still loved)
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It's worth noting that Black Friday 2024 may be the last chance to buy a discounted dock for a while. In 2025, America's new president has promised tariffs that could reach 60 percent on Chinese goods, and a number of smaller dock manufacturers are headquartered in China. (Larger ones, however, have moved outside the country.)
I'm compiling the best early Black Friday deals on Thunderbolt docks at major retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and elsewhere. I've listed each Thunderbolt dock deal below, followed by an explanation of why I picked them. (For more details, scroll down to the FAQ at the end that explains what to look for in a Thunderbolt dock and how much you should pay.)
Best early Black Friday Thunderbolt dock deals
HP Thunderbolt Dock G2, Thunderbolt 3, 100W charging, now $70.52 (26% off at Amazon)
Targus USB-C Docking Station, DisplayLink, 65W charging, now $103.99 (58% off at Amazon)
OWC Thunderbolt Go Dock, Thunderbolt 4, 90W charging, now $249.99 (17% off at Amazon with Prime)
Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Dock Plus, Thunderbolt 3, 60W charging, now $109.97 (63% off at Amazon)
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If you live in a large home or are simply done dealing with shoddy Wi-Fi, a mesh router might be the solution. Black Friday tech deals have come in handy in this space already, with one of our top picks falling to a record-low price. Google's Nest Wi-Fi Pro 6E in a three-pack is down to $279 right now, a steep sale from its original $400 price tag.
This is our pick for the best mesh Wi-Fi system for folks who are using the tech for the first time. There isn't a great deal of customization here and there are more powerful options out there. But the Nest mesh system is easy to set up and then just let it do its thing.
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Black Friday is set to soak the world in glorious deals, but why wait until later in the month? Some of these deals are already live. For instance, the M2 MacBook Air is available via Amazon for just $749. The regular price is $1,000, so this is a discount of 25 percent. It even boasts 16GB of RAM.
This model easily made our list of the best MacBooks, even with the presence of the newer M3 MacBook Air. Here are the takeaways. This laptop, obviously, includes Apple's proprietary M2 8-core CPU, which is more than fast enough for basic tasks and fine for even many advanced tasks, like music-making. We called it "Apple's near-perfect Mac" in our official review.
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