Best Black Friday Laptop Deals 2026: Prices to Beat
A guide for Black Friday 2026 shoppers warns that rising memory chip costs have driven up laptop prices, making current 'deals' less valuable than in previous years. It provides price benchmarks for popular models to help consumers identify genuine discounts.
Why it matters
It provides consumer advice in an inflationary tech market, highlighting how supply chain shifts toward AI data centers impact retail pricing.
Black Friday falls on November 27 this year, with Cyber Monday on November 30, and anyone planning to buy a laptop in that window should start from an uncomfortable fact: most laptops cost more today than they did at last year’s sales. Memory chips have become so expensive that Apple raised the MacBook Air by $200 in June, Dell warned of increases of at least 15% to 20% at the end of 2025, and Gartner expects PC prices to rise 17% across 2026, which means a “20% off” label this November may do little more than bring a laptop back to what it cost a year ago.
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