Get ready for some big MacBook Black Friday deals this year

Black Friday itself falls on 29 November and most deals usually last until the Monday afterwards (Cyber Monday), which this year falls on 2 December. Many deals actually start in advance of Black Friday, in some cases several weeks in advance. There’s always a chance that some of them may continue after Cyber Monday, but I wouldn’t bank on it. If there’s a deal you like the look of, it’s a good idea to buy before the end of Black Friday weekend.

Apple usually doesn’t have direct Black Friday Macbook deals, but it is offering free Apple Black Friday gift cards with qualifying MacBook Air purchases. The gift cards are worth up to $200 in the US and £160 in the UK, but these are savings against future purchases at Apple. Considering that most MacBooks have at least $200 / £150 off at third-party retailers, it’s not such a great deal.

If you want cash discounts, you’ll need to look to third-party retailers like Amazon, B&H Photo, Best Buy and Walmart. We will be covering all those deals on this page, no matter who the retailer is.

Most of the major electronics and tech retailers offer Black Friday and Cyber Monday MacBook deals. Good bets in the US include Amazon, Adorama and B&H Photo. Walmart and Best Buy also often have a couple of big headline deals. Over in the UK, Amazon, Currys, John Lewis, Laptops Direct, Very and AO.com are all contenders.

One place where you won’t find a MacBook Black Friday deal is directly from Apple. Instead of discounting stock, Apple offers gift cards for savings on future purchases. That’s great if you know you’ll want to buy something from Apple in the future, which to be honest, you probably will, but it’s not the same as a cash discount.

Fortunately, our price tracking technology makes it easy for you to find the best MacBook Black Friday deals without having to do the legwork and search a load of retailers yourself. We’ll be linking directly to the best prices here on this page, which we’ll be updating throughout the sale – you can even look below right now to find the best current MacBook Pro and Air prices.

Absolutely; Black Friday is one of the best times to buy a MacBook. We tend to see the lowest prices on MacBooks during the sales event, and this year we’re seeing decent discounts even on the newest MacBooks, the M3 MacBook Pro and M2 MacBook Air 15.

There are of course limits. We don’t normally see more than $200 to $250 off MacBooks that have been out for less than a year. Older models do come in for bigger savings at times, but usually only on high-spec configurations – for example, we sometimes see up to $400 of the MacBook Pro 16 with a large SSD. Savings on M1 Max and M2 Max Pros can be even higher, but that amount of power is beyond most people’s needs.

There are so many MacBook Black Friday deals around, it’s easy to wonder whether what you’re seeing is really a good deal or not. Some retailers do have a habit of inflating the ‘before’ price a couple of days before the deals, in order to make a deal seem much better than it actually is. There are also a lot of renewed MacBook deals that sometimes aren’t much cheaper than a brand new device.

On this page, we’re tracking MacBook deals as they come and go in both the US and UK, and we’ll be comparing the sale price against the real genuine retail price from Apple. We’ll also be checking the prices against other retailers to ensure that we’re definitely linking to the very best MacBook Black Friday deal available.