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

John.B said:
I'm embarrassed for all the Apple Store retail employees who have to tell their customers that Apple was too cheap to have a Black Friday sale this year.

Shaking. My. Head.

I'm pretty much stuck in the Apple ecosystem for my own purposes, but I'm at that point now where I'll actively discourage anyone I know from buying into Apple hardware if they aren't already hopelessly bought into iOS and OS X. I really wish Microsoft hadn't designed Windows 10 to leak data like a sieve for a certain three letter agency, because it makes the platform far less secure in general and that makes recommending alternatives a lot harder.
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Why should they? I can walk into my local Apple store at 10AM on some random weekday and it looks like many stores on Black Friday. It's enough of a zoo on a regular basis that they don't need to do it to generate traffic/buzz.

I'll be grabbing a new Mac via the Apple store and will price match a Black Friday deal with the credit card later.
 
stulaw11 said:
Biggest problem with these "deals" are these retailers dont keep enough in stock to even last 2 hours on Thanksgiving morning, let alone Black Friday.

Target, Sams, and Staples, the ones with $150 off the iPad, had no iPad Air 2s as of about 10-11am today in any size, Thanksgiving day. That's insane to even advertise a deal you dont have enough for even 2 hours to sell.
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Well speak for yourself. I just checked local Targets for iPad Air 2, and 17 of the 20 closest stores (Seattle area) still have several models of iPad Air 2, and it's afternoon of Black Friday. Target.com shows local store inventory.
 
Killer deal on the 2014 maxed 15" rMBP

Yesterday I was watching this and it was $1850, special one day deal today for $1599, no sales tax too from B & H. I was a fence sitter but this deal got me to jump off. these are still $2079 in the refurb at apple right now.

2014

B&H photo new 15" rMBP 16gb ram/512gb drive/dgpu

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/dealZone.jsp

hope you get to get in on it!
 
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macnewby456 said:
Killer deal on the 2014 maxed 15" rMBP

Yesterday I was watching this and it was $1850, special one day deal today for $1599, no sales tax too from B & H. I was a fence sitter but this deal got me to jump off. these are still $2079 in the refurb at apple right now.

2014

B&H photo new 15" rMBP 16gb ram/512gb drive/dgpu

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/dealZone.jsp

hope you get to get in on it!
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That is actually a killer deal.

What is the difference between the 2014 vs 2015?
 
Mr D said:
That is actually a killer deal.

What is the difference between the 2014 vs 2015?
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^^^ This
I jumped on that B&H deal with two feet on the ground. LOL!
Amazing deal as my wife's laptop. The differences are simply minimal, and she would not care, anyway (everymac.com lists them under order id = MGXC2LL/A):

1. Force Touch vs. None
2. Slightly larger battery adding one extra hour of capacity
3. Slightly faster discrete graphics (over OpenGL, etc)
4. Faster PCIe storage (4PCIe lanes vs. 2PCIe lanes to SSD)

From everymac.com:
"The most notable differences between the "Mid-2015" models and their predecessors are that the "Mid-2015" MacBook Pro models have a more advanced trackpad, faster flash storage, and a higher capacity battery. The higher-end "Mid-2015" models have modestly faster graphics than the predecessors, as well. However, because the models are so similar, identifiers are particularly important for differentiation and the similarities are well worth evaluating in-depth, too."

Got this baby, new not recycled, for $900 off original list, and $500 off current market price. Tax and shipping free.

What is not to like? Love B&H.
 
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ActionableMango said:
Well speak for yourself. I just checked local Targets for iPad Air 2, and 17 of the 20 closest stores (Seattle area) still have several models of iPad Air 2, and it's afternoon of Black Friday. Target.com shows local store inventory.
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Target was out of stock yesterday even for online shipping yesterday about noon and they must've held back some for today. And you COULDN'T check stock to pickup up since the stores were closed until 6pm.

Yes with a $150 gift card but you pay full price and full tax. Not really that great a "deal" other than to get you back into Target to spend $.

$100-150 off the retail price out the door is a much better deal unless you shop at Target regularly for some reason. I would rather take $100 off out the door than get a $150 target gift card personally, so Target's deal is of no help.
 
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The wallet is hurting.

This Black Friday weekend the sales have been amazing.

I had to apply flow-control to avoid going gonzo.

Not only bought the full-house mid-2014 MBP 15-inch (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD), with discrete graphics from B&H, but also an iPad mini 4, 64GB, WiFi-only from BestBuy ($100 off, $399+tax), all for my lovely.

Amazing weekend. With all web purchases = no need to queue at the door+counter+cashier.
 
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How did you actually pay for it. B&H has checkout disabled for a day and the deal is only good for a day. What the heck?

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OnlyShadowKnows said:
The wallet is hurting.

This Black Friday weekend the sales have been amazing.

I had to apply flow-control to avoid going gonzo.

Not only bought the full-house mid-2014 MBP 15-inch (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD), with discrete graphics from B&H, but also an iPad mini 4, 64GB, WiFi-only from BestBuy ($100 off, $399+tax), all for my lovely.

Amazing weekend. With all web purchases = no need to queue at the door+counter+cashier.
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Best Buy can go f*** themselves. I ordered an iPad Air 2 this morning and it said it was in stock and ready for pickup today. I went there and they didn't have any. When I asked why my order says I could pick it up today, they said the system is slow and it might be tomorrow. I told them that's bait and grab. I cancelled my order.
 
SirYossi said:
the Target AppleTV is for the AppleTV 3 as target will not carry the AppleTV 4 till after blackfriday is over. The appleTV 4 being sold out on thurday night is a lie cause they said that they will not carry it in store till after the blackfriday sales basically they are cleaning out the overstock of the AppleTV 3s they have that they can not seem to sell. The local stores here in upstate NY said they were not even gonna carry the 32 or 64 gig models till monday the first of Dec.
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Then they lied to you because the Target I went to last night did have a number of ATV4s in stock and on sale for 25% off -- they had one 64GB that was sold immediately, but still had several 32GB in stock. The Target website also had that sale on there, too.
 
I managed to walk into a Target this morning around 6:45 AM (woke up early anyway, forgot to turn off my alarm) and was able to snag a 32 gig and a 64 gig both in stock. Pretty happy about it.
 
geez... does MR get a kickback for basically becoming an online flyer for Apple black friday deals?
 
Target had some but paying full price and tax on full price to get a $150 gift card to buy more crap at Target where I never shop wasn't appealing/convincing.

Staples was the best deal- $150 off the out the door price.
 
macnewby456 said:
Killer deal on the 2014 maxed 15" rMBP

Yesterday I was watching this and it was $1850, special one day deal today for $1599, no sales tax too from B & H. I was a fence sitter but this deal got me to jump off. these are still $2079 in the refurb at apple right now.

2014

B&H photo new 15" rMBP 16gb ram/512gb drive/dgpu

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/dealZone.jsp

hope you get to get in on it!
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Yup got one too, loving it so far! Almost bought it yesterday, really happy I waited.
 
So is Apple going to do Cyber Monday? I've been waiting for their Black Friday sale to get an iphone. Don't know if there is any point waiting until Monday.
 
HotPopsicle said:
How did you actually pay for it. B&H has checkout disabled for a day and the deal is only good for a day. What the heck?

--skell
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^^^^This
[I am not affiliated with B&H in any way, other than being a customer.]

B&H closes always Friday at sundown and opens to business on Saturday at sundown, all EST. You missed the original window of this one-day deal at sundown.

However, I checked the status of the one-day deal as I write this, just for kicks, not knowing if you care anymore: Apparently, B&H extended the one-day $1,599 deal to web-purchases between Saturday 17:00 and 23:59 EST.
 
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The Game 161 said:
nothing in UK

was hoping for money off mini 4 smart cover
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Yeah I know there was nothing. It was funny I went to the Apple Store in the morning and as I expected there was nothing. In the afternoon I went by an official Apple reseller (stormfront) and they had a sign on the window saying 'the Friday you've been waiting for' but there were no sales!
 
Shanghaichica said:
Yeah I know there was nothing. It was funny I went to the Apple Store in the morning and as I expected there was nothing. In the afternoon I went by an official Apple reseller (stormfront) and they had a sign on the window saying 'the Friday you've been waiting for' but there were no sales!
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Very disappointing nothing like the US sadly
 
The Game 161 said:
Very disappointing nothing like the US sadly
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Argos seem to be doing better than most this year.

They have the 16GB iPad Air 1 for £269
iPad mini 2 16GB £199
iPhone 4S sim free for £99
They also have discounts on the iPod touch 6th gen models

I am not interested in any of these devices though
 
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