Live Black Friday deals: Real-time tech picks by the PC experts
Black Friday may be here, but the very best tech deals won’t hang around for long, and new sales will pop up throughout the day. PCWorld editors are keeping tabs on the best PC and tech deals across the web, making sure you don’t miss the top Amazon Lightning deals or inadvertently purchase a dud.
Brad Chacos and Alaina Yee — two veteran bargain hunters from our Full Nerd podcast — will be blogging about the juiciest Black Friday tech deals right here from 6 a.m. until 3 p.m. Eastern, drawing on literal decades of deep PC hardware and software experience to highlight the deals that are actually worth your hard-earned cash. Maybe we’ll add some board games or other geeky doo-dads into the mix too. We’re hungover on turkey, let’s have fun!
Stay tuned to our live blog for real-time updates on the Black Friday deals you need to know about on laptops, computing accessories and peripherals, desktops, Thunderbolt docks, smart home deals and plenty more. If you’re looking for category-specific recommendations, be sure to check out PCWorld’s Black Friday landing page, where you’ll find all our roundups and standalone deals.
One note: We’re seeing many of Amazon’s best Black Friday locked behind Prime-exclusive sales. You’ll need to be Prime member to take advantage of those deals, but you can sign up to a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime. Most of the deals below won’t require that, however, so check first.
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Top Black Friday tech deals we’re tracking
- Lenovo IdeaPad 3i Chromebook for $149 — 8GB of RAM and a 1080p display for $149? Easily the best budget laptop of Black Friday if you don’t need Windows.
- Disney+ and Hulu (with ads) — $4.99/mo for 12 months (62% off)
- Bosgame P3 mini PC for $440 — With an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and potent Radeon 780M graphics, this is a powerhouse that can fit in your palm. You get a lot more firepower with this than comparably priced laptops.
- Acer Predator X27U OLED monitor for $400 — A new OLED monitor under $400 is a rare find, but Acer has one right now, and at a blistering 280Hz, it’s faster than a lot of the competition. I (Brad) am strongly trying to resist the urge to splurge on this one today.
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The best Black Friday Chromebook deal? Pick your poison
Dueling Chromebooks, heck yeah! I had Amazon and its impeccable $149 deal on the Lenovo 3i Chromebook all lined up to be the steal of Black Friday, with 8GB of RAM and and a nice big 15.6-inch 1080p display. But then Best Buy swoops in and takes $40 off that price…with half the memory. I’d still go with Amazon’s 8GB deal, but you can’t go wrong with either — and I gotta love the cutthroat competition. That’s what we live for here.
Black Friday’s best Thunderbolt 5 dock deal
I went into Black Friday thinking that this would still be the year for Thunderbolt 4 hardware, given that AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all have indicated that they’d be passing Thunderbolt 5 by with their own laptop platforms. But Kensington’s determined to prove me wrong with a massive 50 percent discount ($200 off!) on its Kensington SD5000T5 dock, $195.90 at Amazon.
Black Friday could be your last chance for cheap PC deals
Before we start smacking our lips around some delicious deals, a word of warning: If you plan on buying a computer or computer parts any time in the next year, strongly consider diving into Black Friday sales. Prices for PC components (especially memory, but also including storage) have skyrocketed recently due to AI demands, graphics card pricing remains inflated, and tariff impacts are expected to slam into effect after the holidays.
Don’t take my word for it! My colleague Mark Hachman interviewed numerous PC industry insiders and analysts about what to expect. Their verdict? Black Friday 2025 could be your last chance for cheap PC deals.
Hello world
Goooooood morning USA! It’s bright – well, still dark – and early here on the east coast. But it’s never too early to save some serious cash on rad tech. Let’s find some cool Black Friday deals, y’all!
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