Best Black Friday deals LIVE: 4K TVs, laptops, headphones, and more

Gaming laptops are usually a pretty pricey investment, but thanks to Black Friday deals you can get a machine sporting solid specs for less than you might expect. Case in point, this Gigabyte G5 gaming laptop is on sale for $549 at Best Buy (opens in new tab) — that’s a saving of $350 compared to its regular retail price of $999. 

At this price, don’t expect a cutting-edge laptop, but it does packs a 15.6-inch Full HD  screen, an Intel Core i5-11400H CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU, 8GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. The laptop also sports a 144Hz refresh rate, which is a really nice bonus, and makes it a great pick for playing fast-paced shooters or action games. The G5’s specs are from 2021 but they still hold up extremely well. 

Granted, the 512GB of storage is a little on the small size (but one of the best external hard drives will fix that) but otherwise this is reasonably powerful gaming laptop at an entry-level price.  

The Black Friday sales period is often noted as the ideal time to score a TV upgrade, and if you’ve been considering one of the best OLEDs then you’ll want to pay attention to this Amazon deal. 

Right now you can get the 55” LG A2 OLED 4K TV for $896 at Amazon (opens in new tab). That’s $403 off the usual price, and one of the best early Black Friday deals out there at the moment. Don’t let the fact Amazon hasn’t marked it as a deal fool you, this is definitely a killer discount. 

There’s plenty to love about the LG A2. For starters, its’ an OLED TV that offers better picture quality that an LCD TV. Plus, this set comes with a 55-inch 4K display, complete with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG support. It also packs Google Assistant and Alexa support, and LG’s webOS software is often considered one of the best smart TV platforms.

One of our favorite early Black Friday deals is easily this MacBook discount courtesy of Best Buy. It’s been running for a few days now but remains extremely compelling. Right now the MacBook Pro 14-inch (M1 Pro/512GB) is just $1,599 at Best Buy (opens in new tab). That’s $400 off and ties the lowest price we’ve ever seen for this powerful laptop.

In our Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021) review, we were seriously impressed by what this device had to offer. It has pretty much everything you could want in a laptop; including incredible performance, a beautiful 14-inch display and battery life that lasted over 14 hours in our tests.

If all that wasn’t enough it also packs an excellent 1080p webcam, a Magic Keyboard that is a dream to type on, and a fairly generous selection of ports, which is far from guaranteed when it comes to Apple laptops. Still no USB-A port though, but this can be fixed with use of a dongle or dock.