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!