Black Friday 2022 laptop deals: Dell, Asus, Acer, Microsoft and more | Media Pyro

Like the changing of the tides and the phases of the moon, Black Friday has struck again. The shopping event of the year officially kicks off on November 25, and deals are expected across everything from TVs, gaming and tech gadgets to mattresses, fashion, toys and more.

Like every year, our team of tech experts at IndyBest will be on hand to guide you through the discount storm, using the trash to bring you Black Friday laptop deals that are worth your time and money.

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Laptops are always a hot ticket item during Black Friday sales. This year most of the big brands are refreshing their range with the latest generation of chips, so we expect to see some decent savings on some of the best laptops from Dell, Microsoft, Huawei and Lenovo .

We’re not targeting laptops this Black Friday either. Our coverage of the annual sales event will include the best deals on gaming, technology, mattresses, home and kitchen appliances, beauty products, fashion and more.

Read on to find out everything you need to know about the Black Friday laptop deals we’re hoping to see this year, as well as where to find any early discounts ahead of the sales event.

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The best early Black Friday laptop deals 2022

Retailers including Very and Currys have jumped the gun this year and are running their Black Friday sales throughout November. Here’s a selection of some of the best laptop deals we’ve found so far.

Currys has £200 off this excellent gaming laptop this Black Friday. In general, you don’t often see laptops running an RTX 3060 graphics card for less than around £900, so the Gigabyte G5 KD was already great value – and that’s before it was discounted to £699. The specs about a year old, but this will happily run every new release at smooth frames, and crack through processor-intensive jobs like video rendering at a reasonable speed.

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Asus is known for its excellent mid-range laptops and this bestselling Asus vivobook 15in is no exception. It’s a smart-looking machine with an HD screen that’s perfect for everyday professional tasks as well as entertainment. It would make the ideal companion device for students, remote workers or anyone who needs a no-frills laptop for bashing through emails on the train.

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This is a great deal on a blisteringly fast gaming laptop, able to handle all the latest releases at high frame rates and with the quality settings cranked all the way up. The MSI katana runs on an RTX 3070, one of the best graphics cards you’ll find inside any machine, along with an 11th generation Intel Core i7 processor. At less than £1,000, this is a bargain gaming laptop.

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The Lenovo ideapad gaming 3 is an excellent gaming laptop. It comes in two main configurations, one powered by the premium RTX 3050 (£799, Box.co.uk) and this one, powered by the GTX 1650 which is not as high as it is, a more budget-friendly Nvidia graphics card that still offers excellent performance. across most of the new games. When paired with the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H processor and 8GB of RAM, it delivers a next-generation console experience.

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When is Black Friday 2022 in the UK?

Black Friday falls on November 25 in 2022. It is named after the day after Thanksgiving in the US, which always falls on the fourth Thursday of November.

Black Friday gained its fame sometime in the 1970s, when stores began to notice a sharp increase in customers immediately after the Thanksgiving holiday celebration. Originally a one-day sale, Black Friday has since expanded to take over the entire weekend, ending with Cyber​​​​Monday. Some retailers, such as An, offer Black Friday deals during the month of November.

When is Cyber ​​Monday 2022?

Cyber ​​Monday falls on November 28 in 2022. The goofy name made a lot more sense back when most shopping wasn’t done online. Whereas Black Friday was all about looking for deals in physical stores (and was notorious at one point for unchecked high street carnage), Cyber ​​Monday was all about logging in on the information superhighway, pulling up Ask Jeeves and surfing the web for the best. discounts.

Today, Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday are two ends of the same weekend sale. Some retailers may change the name of their Monday sales, and some may have a few unique deals.

When will the Black Friday deals be available?

A number of keen retailers have already kicked off their Black Friday laptop deals, including Very and Currys. Some sites, such as Argos and Amazon, will start dropping their laptop deals in the week leading up to Black Friday, with discounts running from November 18th to November 28th. We’ll be tracking the best offers between now and the end of the sale, to bring you the best deals, no matter when they drop.

What were the best Black Friday laptop deals from last year?

Last year’s Black Friday included a series of excellent deals on top devices, such as the Dell G15 gaming laptop (£899, Dell.com), which was £300 off during the sale. The Microsoft Surface 4 laptop (£829, Johnlewis.com) has dropped to £699 at John Lewis, which is cheaper than you can get this powerful Windows laptop today.

There were also bargains at the more affordable end of the spectrum, such as the smart-looking Asus Chromebook CX1100 (£149.99, Argos.co.uk), which was almost 50 per cent off.

What deals can we expect on laptops in this year’s sale?

Since last year’s Black Friday sale, Intel and AMD have launched their latest generation of CPUs. That means most of the major laptop brands have refreshed their ranges with the new chips for 2022, so we should see some decent discounts on the outgoing chip models older (but still fast). Microsoft offered discounts of up to £200 on the Surface 4 laptop, and with the Surface 5 laptop now hitting shelves, we wouldn’t be surprised to see even bigger savings on the previous model this year.

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