Hi! I currently have a PC my husband built that is about 5 years old. I am in desperate need of an upgrade. I am a photographer so I need to be able to use my software and have a USB port for my SD card dongle. My husband is an intense gamer, but I’m a lot more casual. I like to play Fortnite, Planet Zoo, Planet Coaster, etc. When playing Fortnite with my current PC, my CPU usage is 70% or so and it freezes and rubberbands often. I know I am not going to have a super powered gaming laptop for $500, but I don’t need that. I don’t need a 4K touch screen. My PC is 16gb ram, i5, and has 2TB storage. Being a photographer, storage is extremely important. But if I need to get an external hard drive, I can do that for the right laptop. I know there are quite a lot of Black Friday deals going on with laptops less than $500. If I have to spend more, I can, I’d just prefer not to. And yes, I need a laptop. A PC just isn’t the most practical for me.

I am planning to buy a new laptop this Black Friday deals as I think this is the best time to buy a laptop before the prices stay insanely high due to tariffs or what ever. Anyways, my old Dell XPS is on its last leg so wanted to get it updated as I use it a lot for work. I have a budget of $1000-$1500 and looking for a laptop that can last at least 5 years. I am not really looking for a Macbook as I use a lot of certain business software that does well on Windows. And also I am used to my hot keys and setup of my windows laptop.

Now I need the laptop to be able to multi-task as I usually dock it with an another monitor and do a dual screen setup. So I probably need good multi-tasking and ram. I also don’t need to game, and don’t do much graphic intensive work besides a little photo shopping and web development. So definitely don’t need a dedicated graphics card. I also need the battery life to be at least all day, around 6 hours would be nice. Because sometimes I like to work outside the office and I don’t want to always worry about if I need to charge the laptop.

I also like to keep the laptop at around 14-15” as I said I like to travel often and don’t want to carry around anything larger than that. I don’t mind if it has touch and if its a 2-in-1 or not, either is find with me.

So with that in mind, what are the best Black Friday laptop deals this year that are good? Where should I shop at? Best Buy, Micro center, Amazon, Walmart?

Thanks for the help!

UPDATE: here are the best deals I've found, I'll be keeping this list updated over black friday:

Best gaming laptop Black Friday deals:

• 60% off Lenovo, Acer, more gaming laptops (Walmart.com)

• 33% off HP gaming laptops (HP.com)

• $850 off Dell gaming laptops including Alienware (Dell.com)

• $450 off Samsung Book5 & Book4 gaming laptops (Samsung.com)

• $480 off ASUS ROG laptops (Walmart.com)

• $700 off MSI gaming laptops (Walmart.com)

• Lenovo gaming laptops on sale (Lenovo.com)

• $550 off Lenovo Legion 5 (Walmart.com)

Best laptop Black Friday deals:

• $600 off Apple, ASUS, more laptops (Walmart.com)

• $450 off Samsung Galaxy Books (Samsung.com)

• $700 off HP laptops (HP.com)

• $855 off Dell laptops (Dell.com)

• 33% off Acer laptops (Walmart.com)

what’s the best black friday deals for entry level vs high end gaming laptops?

HELLO, i’m trying to figure out if the black friday and cyber monday laptop deals this year are actually good or just the usual fake discounts. for anyone who follows this stuff, what would you call a solid price for an entry level gaming laptop right now compared to a legit high end one?

i’m mostly looking at mid tier gpus like the 4060 or 4070 for entry level and then anything 4080 or 4090 tier for high end. if you’ve been tracking prices, what ranges are you seeing that make you say yeah that’s worth it?

drop any deals you’ve spotted too. trying to upgrade but i don’t want to get baited by inflated msrp.