This live blog is your go-to source for the latest and best deals uncovered by CNET’s shopping experts. We’ve curated real bargains on TVs, laptops, gaming gear, and headphones, from steep discounts on our favorite TV for 2024 to smart home gadgets, the latest Airpods, and more.
After thousands of hours of research and preparation, we’re ready to guide you through the shopping season—but act fast, as these deals won’t last long. We’re constantly updating deals from top retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and others to bring you the best finds. Explore the list now and check back often for fresh updates!
Best Black Friday deals
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Best Black Friday TV deals
We’re very serious about TVs here at CNET, and the proud owners of a light-controlled TV Test Lab at our New York City office. As our shopping editors evaluate the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on TVs, we cross-reference the discounts with the results of our rigorous hands-on testing — and consult our dedicated TV editors and writers, too. These are our favorites right now.
The TCL QM8 offers superior brightness levels and top-notch picture quality thanks to its use of cutting edge mini-LED technology. No wonder it was our top pick for the best TV set of 2024.
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Best Black Friday smart home deals
Black Friday is the perfect opportunity to upgrade your smart home setup, whether you’re eyeing a security camera or multicolored light bulbs. CNET’s experts have compiled the best deals you can find on gear that will help with everything from maintaining the ideal temperature to purifying the air you breathe. These high-tech essentials can often be pricey—but not when these rare deals come around.
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Best Black Friday headphone deals
A good pair of headphones, Airpods or wireless earbuds make relaxing with music easy. Top headphones and earbuds from top brands like Apple, Sony, Bose and more are on sale for Black Friday. We’ve gathered the best audio deals for you below across multiple big retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart.
These super-popular ANC earbuds are $95 off right now. AirPods Pro 2 feature top-notch noise-cancelation, impressive sound quality and voice calling performance. They boast an IP54 weather-resistance rating and have a battery life of up to 30 hours with the charging case.
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These emergency earbuds are ready to party like it’s 1995 for $19.99. Sometimes, you lose an earbud. Sometimes, you just forget the whole set at home. The JLab Go Air Pop are the perfect backup buds: lightweight, compact and long-lasting. They even come with a charging cable built-in, and among the many color variations are a technicolor Fruity Pebbles set and the best colorway of all: translucent like a Game Boy.
The Beats Solo 4 are some of our favorite over-ear headphones. While they are not a noise-canceling model, they do support lossless audio. They also offer solid voice-call performance and have a substantial 50-hour battery life.
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Best Black Friday laptop and tablet deals
There are tons of amazing Black Friday deals going on. Now is a great time to get a new laptop or Chromebook to replace your aging machine. There are plenty of laptop deals, whether you want a shiny gaming laptop, a reliable MacBook or a budget Chromebook for your kid. If you don’t see something you like below, check our complete list of the best Black Friday laptop deals. And for those looking for something more portable, we’ve gathered great tablet deals that range from low-cost Fire tablets to price cuts on popular iPad models.
Upgrading your laptop? This HP Pavilion Plus earned the overall top spot on our list of the best Windows laptops of 2024. It features a 14-inch, 2,560×1,600-pixel display, 512GB of storage and an Intel Core i5 processor. It’s also equipped with multiple USB-C and USB-A ports, an HDMI port and a headphone jack for serious versatility.
This Apple iPad alternative is a great value, and it’s currently just $4 more than its lowest price ever.
The newest Duet meets its lowest price yet for Black Friday. Just released last month, this MediaTek-powered Chrome OS tablet gets the long update life of a Chromebook — system and security updates until June 2034 — the flexibility of using both Android apps, Linux apps, and desktop-grade Chrome, and a 2K touchscreen that’s perfect for reading 200 chapters of manga in a single setting. 12-hour battery life also means that you won’t be reaching for a charger nearly as often as an Android tablet would be, either.
This 2024 laptop has a touchscreen display, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. It also has the Snapdragon X Elite processor, AI capabilities through Copilot+ and gets up to 20 hours of battery life.
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When is Cyber Monday?
Cyber Monday is scheduled to take place on Dec. 2 this year. The major sale event always takes place the first Monday after Thanksgiving is observed in the US, which is on the fourth Thursday of November each year. Between Black Friday — which is the day after Thanksgiving — and Cyber Monday, we see an uptick in sales, though in recent years, the shopping event has become a monthlong bonanza
When is Black Friday?
Black Friday happened on Nov. 29 this year. It always lands the day after Thanksgiving in the US, which falls on the fourth Thursday of November. There are hundreds of price cuts and sizable sales from the biggest online retailers you can still snag right now.
When did Black Friday sales end?
Black Friday sales tend to last a few days after the major sales event itself, which was Nov. 29. this year. With this in mind, it’s fair to assume offers will run throughout the weekend into early December. It will then be taken over by Cyber Monday on Dec. 2. Just note that the best deals are expected on the main Black Friday date.
Are Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals only available online?
Generally speaking, yes. The number of deals launching exclusively in stores has been dwindling in recent years, and this was certainly accelerated during COVID-19 when crowds were discouraged, and most shopping moved online. We’ve seen retailers like Walmart and Target previously offering online-only deals, whereas others like Best Buy extend their Black Friday savings to in-store locations as well. As for Cyber Monday, it has historically been a predominately online shopping event which is continuing on this year.
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday retailers
- Amazon: One of the biggest online retailers, Amazon has massive discounts with significant savings on tech, home appliances, and smart home equipment.
- Walmart: Save big on appliances like televisions, refrigerators, laptops, and more at Walmart’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday event.
- Best Buy: Black Friday and Cyber Monday are historically a great time to buy TVs and Best Buy has you covered for that and more.
- The Home Depot: Eyeing home improvement tools? Home Depot has the best discounts on tools, appliances, and even grills.
- Target: Target may not be as big on Black Friday and Cyber Monday as other retailers but it does offer some great deals on toys, gifts and board games.
Why are they called Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
The term “black” has historically been used to denote distressing or calamitous events. The earliest known use of Black Friday for the Friday after Thanksgiving was to refer to the practice of workers calling in sick the day after Thanksgiving in the early 1950s. Around that same time, US police adopted the term to describe the traffic conditions during the first major holiday shopping date.
After attempts to move to the term “Big Friday” failed, merchants attempted to ameliorate the term Black Friday in subsequent years, suggesting that its origin was not due to the terrible traffic the shopping spree created, but because the profit it generated put stores “back in the black” in financial terms.
Then, in 2005, the National Retail Federation coined the term “Cyber Monday” because it had noticed a spike in online traffic the Monday following Thanksgiving. At the time, it was believed it was because people were making online purchases while they were at work following the holiday, so their kids couldn’t see any gift purchases and because work computers typically had faster internet connections. There was some chatter about calling the date Black Monday or Blue Monday — because hyperlinks are blue — but eventually, everyone settled on the more futuristic-sounding Cyber Monday. In 2014, Cyber Monday became the biggest online shopping day in the country.
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