Our guide to this year’s Apple Black Friday deals will tell you everything you need to know about bagging a cheap device.
Apple Black Friday deals are rare if you’re only shopping at the Apple Store, so we’ve scoured every other US store to find major discounts on AirPods, the Apple Watch, MacBooks and iPads. There are even some new iPhone 12 deals you’d never expect. You shouldn’t pay full price for something from Apple during Black Friday. But you do have to pounce on these deals rather quickly as shipping times can extend past the Cyber Monday date and into 2021 if you aren’t fast enough at checkout. The fact that Apple launched not one but two MacBook refreshes in 2020 means that you can get a serious discount on the March 2020 laptop. What’s amazing is that we’ve already seen a few MacBook M1 price drops by small margins (around $50), even though Apple just announced it this month. Amazon and Walmart usually lead the charge on Apple deals, but they do sell out, so sometimes we turn to Macy’s, which often has surprise Apple Watch wins this time of year, and B&H Photo, which we describe as the wild card of retailers. Sometimes they come up with big savings. We’ll continue updating this Apple Black Friday deals page when prices change – whether they continue to drop (unlikely) or go up – but our advice is to buy now because these deals are more likely to go out of stock at these reduced prices. We’re expecting big things with this year’s Black Friday Apple iPad deals, not least because we’ve recently had two brand new entries drop — the new iPad Air 4, and the new standard 2020 10.2-inch iPad. These two brand new Apple tablets are fresh off the presses but we’ve already seen a few excellent price cuts already — roughly in the ballpark of $30 — $40 off. So far, these have been sneak peeks, but we’d bet money we’ll be seeing similar deals over Black Friday itself. New models mean we should also be seeing some great discounts on the older models too, hopefully on the 2020 iPad Pro models, which haven’t seen many great deals so far. Last year we saw plenty of price cuts on the 2018 models, including an $80 discount at Walmart on the standard model. Again, there was a similar $150 discount on the 2017 iPad Pro at Walmart too, and we suspect we might see some similar discounts on the older stock come November too. MacBooks are another top contender for Apple deals over Black Friday, not least because there are plenty of retailers eager to compete for the best prices. Amazon and B&H Photo tend to be forerunners, although last year we also saw Adorama offering some awesome deals on older models. Price cuts ranged from around $100 on the cheaper models to over $400 on the more premium options and we expect you’ll be looking at similar savings come November. So far this year we’ve seen the new 2020 MacBook Air go for as little as $849 over Amazon Prime Day, so we’re expecting to see a return to this price on Black Friday, and potentially even lower. The newer MacBook Pro models might hopefully be seeing savings of up to $200 off if this year’s earlier deals are anything to go by, although we do warn you in advance — these are always super popular deals so you’ll want to act quickly to snag one before they sell out.
