The biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday is here bringing a range of deals and deep discounts on must-have consumer tech products. Apple’s MacBooks are no exception.
Nearly every retailer including Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, and Target have slashed across all the Apple categories such as MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, iPad Pros, and Apple Watches. The latest 16-inch MacBook Pro is down by $200 as well on most of these platforms.
If you’re planning on snapping up a new MacBook for yourself or a loved one this holiday season, here’s everything you need to know about this year’s MacBook Black Friday deals. We’ve even found quite a few laptop deals that aren’t from Apple as well. We’ll be updating this page daily with new discounts throughout the weekend and Cyber Monday.
The best Black Friday MacBook deals happening now
Black Friday 2019 is here yet and you can snag most MacBooks at their lowest prices ever. The current deals on MacBooks include ones for MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros.
- 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (Best Buy) — $1,100 ($200 off)
- 13.3-inch Mid-2019 MacBook Air with Retina Display (B&H Photo Video) — $1,300 ($200 off)
- 15.4-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar 2018 Model (renewed) — $1,592
- 15.4-inch MacBook Pro (Best Buy) — $2,400 ($400 off)
- 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro (B&H) — $2,200 ($200 off)
What Black Friday MacBook deals to expect in 2019
Generally speaking, Black Friday already comes with substantial price cuts for your favorite Apple devices. But this year, we have seen a particular uptick in deep discounts for earlier models of Apple products due to the recent introduction of newer models (like the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, the iPhone 11, and new iPads).
The 16-inch MacBook Pro was officially announced on November 13, and it has already caused quite a stir. It features a newly redesigned keyboard, a 16-inch Retina display, and a choice between a six-core Intel Core i7 processor or an eight-core Intel Core i9 processor. The 16-inch MacBook Pro may be the newest MacBook Pro, but Apple also released newish versions of its other MacBooks this year. In fact, Apple has released (slightly) updated, refreshed versions of its MacBook Air and Pros just this summer.
It’s possible that between this summer’s refreshed MacBook line and this month’s newly launched 16-inch MacBook Pro, we just may see prices for earlier versions of MacBooks slashed even lower during this year’s Black Friday. Keep your eyes peeled for discounts on 2017, 2018, or this year’s refreshed MacBooks.
But just because the 16-inch MacBook Pro is bigger and newer, that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily the best deal for you. Before you snag a deal on the latest MacBook Pro, you may want to check out our MacBook Pro comparison guide. This guide compares the differences between the MacBook Pro 16 and the MacBook Pro 13.
If you’re new to the Apple product ecosystem (or are just unsure of the difference between a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro), be sure to check out our Air versus Pro comparison guide as well. If you plan to get the latest MacBook Pro (the newly released 16-inch), be sure to check out our latest review on it, so you’ll know exactly what to expect with your forthcoming purchase.
What MacBook deals did we see last Black Friday?
One of the biggest MacBook deals we saw during Black Friday 2018, was a $500 discount on a 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro from B&H. The discount knocked this high-end MacBook from a price of $4,700 to down just $4,200. Back then, this discounted price bought you a 2018 MacBook with an eighth-generation Intel Core i9 processor with six cores and 2TB of storage.
We also saw a wide variety of deals on offer for MacBooks during last year’s Cyber Monday sales. These deals included deep discounts from retailers such as Best Buy, Adorama, and B&H and included the following MacBook laptop models: MacBook Pros (2018 and 2017), a mid-2017 12-inch MacBook, and MacBook Airs (2017 and 2018).
With these deals, we saw discounts that ranged from some as low as just $50 off to some as high as $650 off. And for those who needed a MacBook priced lower than $1,000, the only options available during Cyber Monday 2018 were deals for 2017 MacBook Airs — and even then we didn’t recommend purchasing them.
But Prime Day 2019’s MacBook deals may be the best (read: most recent) indicator of how good the MacBook deals of Black Friday 2019 will turn out to be. Amazon offers a number of its own competitive deals on MacBooks but the best ones were at least $200 off.
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