Best Buy Posts Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2012 Sales for iPads, Macs and iPods

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BestBuy launched its Thanksgiving Weekend, Black Friday and one-day-only "Doorbuster" sales today. Most of their sales run from Thursday to Saturday. These include discounts on many Mac products that are better than the ones from MacMall posted yesterdaty. We've highlighted the deeper savings here on several Apple notebook models:

- 13" 1.8GHz MacBook Air - Retail $1199. $175 Off

- 13" 2.5GHz MacBook Pro - Retail $1199. $165 Off.
- 13" 2.9GHz MacBook Pro - Retail $1499. $150 Off

- 15" 2.3GHz MacBook Pro - Retail $1799. $120 Off
- 13" 2.5GHz Retina MacBook Pro - Retail $1999. $120 Off.

iPod Touch and iTunes Gift Cards:

- 32GB 5th Generation iPod Touch - $294. Free $50 Gift Card.
- $100 iTunes Gift Card for $80 - $80

These $60 iPad discounts are today (Thursday) only:

- 4th Generation iPad - $60 Off.
- iPad 2 - $60 Off

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Top Rated Comments

Macdick Avatar
171 months ago
Best Black Friday Deal

I will get the best black friday deal ! Stay home with my family and keep the money in my pocket :D and enjoy the life with my children because life is short and these are all unnecessary things.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
chris200x9 Avatar
171 months ago
lol look at the 13'' "retina" macbook pro, only apple fans would fall all over themselves for a 6% "doorbuster"
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
goldenaustin Avatar
171 months ago
I will get the best black friday deal ! Stay home with my family and keep the money in my pocket :D and enjoy the life with my children because life is short and these are all unnecessary things.

Cool story bro! So...guess life isn't too short when you have time to troll a black friday thread?!?:rolleyes:
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
OrangeSVTguy Avatar
171 months ago
Don't know who wants to even shop today.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
yanksrock100 Avatar
171 months ago
Amazon has a better price on the Macbook Air - free delivery and no sale tax.

:)

From California, I have to pay sales tax. Same price, so I might as well get it myself from Best Buy. I am the type that likes physically purchasing their product...(especially a Macbook Air) :cool:
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WLS Avatar
171 months ago
60 bucks off on an iPad4! The smart move would have been to sell your iPad3 on the announcement of the 4 and pick up an iPad4 today. If we stay on the Fall roll out of iPads then this could be a winning strategy for hard core upgraders.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)