Black Friday has always been the best time to buy a laptop, and we expect that to hold true in 2026. While the holiday season's top discounts on MacBooks and Windows PCs may not look as great as usual due to industry-wide price hikes — thanks, RAMageddon — they should still be retailers' most competitive offers of the year.
Black Friday laptop deals aren't plentiful just yet, but some of the initial markdowns I've spotted are worth adding to your cart. Amazon is already offering its usual Black Friday discount on certain variants of the MacBook Air, for instance. And Lenovo has several on-sale laptops marked with a "Black Friday Price Guarantee" badge. (That means they for sure won't get any cheaper through Saturday, Nov. 28, the day after Black Friday.)
Meanwhile, HP has fully kicked off its Black Friday Sale already, and it features discounts of up to $550 on one of the best MacBook alternatives I've tested, the OmniBook Ultra 14. Our sister site, CNET, named it their favorite laptop overall.
Check out my running list of the best early Black Friday laptop deals below.
The Mashable Choice Award-winning M5 MacBook Air boasts "a premium design, great speakers, a bright and sharp display," and incredibly impressive performance, said Mashable Tech Editor Timothy Beck Werth. He called it "a damn near-perfect machine" — so suffice it to say, it's our top MacBook for most people . 99.
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