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Best Buy Offering Black Friday Deals on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watch and More

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Best Buy has shared its Black Friday ad for 2015, revealing several deals on Apple products and accessories. The discounts and promotions include up to $125 off select iPad Air 2 models, up to $200 off select Macs, up to $100 off select Apple Watch models, up to $50 off all iPods and more.

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Best Buy stores in the U.S. will open at 5:00 PM on Thursday, November 26, close at 1:00 AM on Friday, November 27, then reopen at 8:00 AM on Friday, November 27 and remain open until 10:00 PM on Friday, November 27. All times are local and may vary at select locations. Most deals are also available online between November 26-28.

Doorbusters

Best Buy will be offering limited doorbuster deals on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday in stores and online. Thanksgiving Day doorbusters will be available at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 26. Black Friday doorbusters will be available at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, November 27. All times are local and may vary.

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Tickets are required for in-store Black Friday doorbuster shopping, which grants the customer the ability to buy a discounted item for a limited time. Best Buy stores will determine when to distribute tickets in the two hours prior to opening for select store-opening doorbusters on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday.

- $100 off iPad Air 2 (16GB/Wi-Fi)
- $100 off iPad Air 2 (64GB/Wi-Fi)
- $125 off iPad Air 2 (128GB/Wi-Fi)
- $200 off MacBook Pro (13-inch/Mid-2012)
- $200 off iMac (21.5-inch/1.6 GHz/Late-2015)
- $120 off MacBook Air (11-inch/Early-2015)
- Up to $50 off all iPods

Black Friday Deals
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- $100 off iPad mini 4 (64GB or 128GB/Wi-Fi)
- $150 off MacBook Pro (13-inch/Early-2015)
- $150 off iMac (27-inch/Retina 5K/Late-2015)
- Up to $100 off select Apple Watch models
- Up to 50% off select Apple Watch accessories
- Up to $60 off ZAGGfolio keyboards for iPads
- Buy one, get one 40% off on iTunes gift cards
- $200 Best Buy gift card with purchase or lease and activation of any new iPhone plus trade-in of iPhone 5 or newer

Follow our Black Friday roundup to keep track of all the best Apple deals at Walmart, Sam's Club, Staples, Target and other retailers as announced. See Best Buy's Black Friday FAQ for more details about the above deals.

Article Link: Best Buy Offering Black Friday Deals on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watch and More
 
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Disappointing... iPad Air 2 16GB was $150 off at one point in July. I figured they'd at least match that for Black Friday, but it looks like it's only $100.
 
$100 off for an iPad seems like the standard, every so often discount. Hardly worth running out in the mess that's black friday for that.
 
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If you're unfortunate enough to be traveling over the Holidays, do check out those Best Buy airport kiosks. Last year, Santa bought several iPad Mini 2's for about $220 each. Not a bad deal at the time, but I'd hope they get under two bills this year. Point is, the kiosks had Black Friday pricing.
 
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BeSweeet said:
"Save up to $100 on Apple Watch"

The discounts don't seem to be detailed anywhere, unfortunately.
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Target has the better deal if you would normally use the Target Gift Card (and if you have a Red Card). I believe they are offering a $100 gift card with every watch, including the $350 Sport.

Although, if you have a Discover card you could use Apple Pay at BestBuy and get 10% (or more if you have the extra promo) cash back.
 
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I went to Target to check out one of these deals a couple of years ago. The line filled the store, and presumably there'd be none left when you got to the end of it. A pretty miserable proposition all in all. Best to buy online from somewhere that doesn't charge sales tax. It will cost a bit more, but will be much better for your mental health.
 
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itsOver9000 said:
replaceable parts
built in cd/dvd drive
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RAM/HDD are the only replaceable parts, and were you to upgrade it to an SSD, you get an SSD 3 times quicker with the rMBP anyway due to PCI-e & quicker Flash. More RAM as standard and quicker RAM in the rMBP. USB ODD costs pennies.

I witnessed somebody do a BTO on the 13" MBP to a 256GB SSD, just cause they wanted an internal ODD. Wouldn't take no for an answer. And they didn't want to upgrade to SSD themselves because they weren't comfortable doing it, plus they wanted all parts warranted by Apple. For just £10 more they could've got the 256GB rMBP, which has quicker Flash, better display, thinner, 3 hours better battery life, double the RAM, quicker RAM, better CPU and better GPU. That hurt to witness. Physically hurt.
 
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mbh1976 said:
Why on earth would anyone buy a (non-retina) Macbook Pro???
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I bought one last year because of hard drive space. I got a 500GB MacBookPro for $1000. The similar Flash drive space for a Retina model has a price of $1800.

That's huge. Honestly is Apple doesn't provide a more reasonable pricesd laptop with good HDD space, I will be switching back to Windows when I buy a new computer in a year or two.
 
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neuropsychguy said:
Target has the better deal if you would normally use the Target Gift Card (and if you have a Red Card). I believe they are offering a $100 gift card with every watch, including the $350 Sport.

Although, if you have a Discover card you could use Apple Pay at BestBuy and get 10% (or more if you have the extra promo) cash back.
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Good luck with that...

I tried to use my Discover like that at the Best Buy in State College, PA and Altoona, PA... rejected both times.. card has a limit well above the price of the MBP I was trying to buy and $0 balance, so it's not my credit card that caused it to be rejected.
 
keysofanxiety said:
RAM/HDD are the only replaceable parts, and were you to upgrade it to an SSD, you get an SSD 3 times quicker with the rMBP anyway due to PCI-e & quicker Flash. More RAM as standard and quicker RAM in the rMBP. USB ODD costs pennies.

I witnessed somebody do a BTO on the 13" MBP to a 256GB SSD, just cause they wanted an internal ODD. Wouldn't take no for an answer. And they didn't want to upgrade to SSD themselves because they weren't comfortable doing it, plus they wanted all parts warranted by Apple. For just £10 more they could've got the 256GB rMBP, which has quicker Flash, better display, thinner, 3 hours better battery life, double the RAM, quicker RAM, better CPU and better GPU. That hurt to witness. Physically hurt.
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I will probably be upgrading my 500HDD to 1 TB model in the next few weeks. To get the same HDD space in a rMBP it is $2300 (1TB).
The rMPB is a great machine but I would like to see them continue to update the standard model for people that want a good computer but lots of storage. How else am I supposed to store all those Live Photos?
 
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iPhone deal is pretty disappointing considering it requires a trade-in. Now if you order it online and save the madness then maybe.
 
solarguy17 said:
I will probably be upgrading my 500HDD to 1 TB model in the next few weeks. To get the same HDD space in a rMBP it is $2300 (1TB).
The rMPB is a great machine but I would like to see them continue to update the standard model for people that want a good computer but lots of storage. How else am I supposed to store all those Live Photos?
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Not really comparable, you're talking about HDD space rather than performance. A 1TB SSD in the Retina MacBook Pro has read/write speeds of nearly 2GB/s. A 1TB USB HDD is something like £30. If you buy a MacBook Pro, I'd argue that performance is the main concern rather than storage. :)
 
keysofanxiety said:
Or the 21.5" dual-i5 iMac for that matter.
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To put in an institutional setting (e.g., school library, hotel or gym lounge). I see relatively recent iMacs all over the place, but in places where the use case is supposed to be fairly temporary and short term.
 
The iPad Air 2 should be $399 since it's a year old.

Honestly, these are not worth camping out for at all.
 
FasterQuieter said:
I went to Target to check out one of these deals a couple of years ago. The line filled the store, and presumably there'd be none left when you got to the end of it. A pretty miserable proposition all in all. Best to buy online from somewhere that doesn't charge sales tax. It will cost a bit more, but will be much better for your mental health.
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So the funny thing about target is they had a ton of these ipads on black friday. Last year I remember it was a giant cage full, we went like 2 hours after they opened and they still had some.

However, I agree, tax free and not waiting you may end up with a better "deal". Depends how much you value time and mental health :).
 
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