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.
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.
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 - $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.
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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.
* Non-Retina Display * Slow HDD Standard, and SATA 3 Instead of PCIe * Outdated CPU & GPU * Thicker, Heavier * Worse Battery Life
Which still makes me wonder why anyone would buy one.
An external superdrive. Not that most people would want to burn CDs on the go in 2015... o_O
In 2012, I could certainly see the appeal of the cMBP. There was a significant price premium for the 13" rMBP at the time, the CPU/GPU were the same, and an SSD would perform similarly between both while the cMBP was upgradeable.
3 years later, the age has caught up with it. A 13" rMBP is not much more expensive, especially with buying from resellers, the GPU/CPU are noticeable faster, and the new PCIe SSDs will smoke anything you could put in the cMBP. You also get the benefits of the form factor, weight and retina display. I love upgradability, but it's simply not enough of an advantage now, IMO.
