Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M5, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD)
(save $249.01)
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 (Intel Core Ultra 7 356H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)
(save $500)
Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16 (Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD)
(save $1,017)
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.
Best MacBook deal
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. As of mid-November, Amazon has 1TB variants of both sizes on sale for $250 off, starting from $1,349.99.
Black Friday MacBook Air discounts have historically peaked around $250, so I don’t expect these deals to improve down the road.
Read Mashable’s full review of the MacBook Air.
Best Windows laptop deal
at HP
$1,819.99
Save $500
at HP
$2,399.99
Save $550.00
HP’s latest OmniBook Ultra 14 is a thin, light Windows laptop with a cool modern look, a haptic touchpad, and an amaaazing OLED touchscreen that’s super sharp and smooth. HP has Intel and Qualcomm configurations discounted by up to $550 during its Black Friday sale; the former come in black and “silk sand” (beige), while the Snapdragon models are available in a chic “stone blue.” (Note that both models are way cheaper than the new MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen.)
More Windows laptop deals
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Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 15 (Snapdragon X, 8GB RAM, 256GB UFS) — $449.99
$799.99(save $350) -
Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 16 (Intel Core Ultra 5 226V, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $799.99
$1,349.99(save $550) -
Lenovo Yoga 7 2-in-1 16 (AMD Ryzen AI 5 340, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $849.99
$1,399.99(save $550) -
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 (Intel Core Ultra 7 356H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,319.99
$1,819.99(save $500) -
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 (Snapdragon X2 Elite, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,849.99
$2,399.99(save $550)
Best gaming laptop deal
at Lenovo
$2,666.99
Save $1,017.00
The Legion Pro 5i is an upper-end gaming laptop with a crisp 240Hz display and an Intel processor. Aside from an RGB keyboard, it’s quite subdued for a gaming PC. This model with a powerful Core Ultra 7 251HX chip and RTX 5060 graphics is a whopping 38% off ahead of Black Friday, and Lenovo guarantees that its price won’t get any lower through Black Friday.
When is Black Friday 2026? Dates to keep in mind:
Black Friday falls on Friday, Nov. 27 this year, but most retailers are starting their holiday sales well before then.
Best Buy will begin its extended Black Friday Doorbusters + Deals event on Thursday, Nov. 19, and it will probably bring us the season’s best selection of Windows laptop deals. I also expect Best Buy to start matching Amazon’s MacBook Air deals at that point.
Amazon’s Black Friday Week sale kicks off the very same day. According to a company blog post, it will feature savings of up to 30% on certain Alienware, Acer, Asus, HP, and Lenovo laptops and gaming PCs.
Walmart is hosting two Black Friday Deals events from Nov. 12 to 15 and Nov. 23 to 29. While I don’t think they’ll be packed with on-sale laptops, Walmart is usually good at scrounging up some decent gaming laptop deals.
Acer, Asus, and Dell have yet to announce their Black Friday plans, but I’ll update this story as soon as they’re made public.
