Black Friday laptop deals worth buying now: a $449 Chromebook and a $729.99 HP OmniBook
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Black Friday laptop deals are already live at Best Buy, more than two weeks before Black Friday on Nov. 27. We checked the laptop deals on Best Buy’s site on Monday, Nov. 9, and two passed our test: enough memory to stay fast for years, real storage instead of the slow kind, and a price that makes sense when you split it over the years you will own it.
The short version
Two laptops on sale at Best Buy are worth a look right now: a $449 Chromebook and a $729.99 Windows laptop. Prices were checked on Nov. 9 and can change any day.
- The HP 14-inch Chromebook Plus was $449 when we checked, $150 below its listed $599 comparison price, and it suits school work and web browsing.
- The HP OmniBook 3 16-inch with 16GB of memory was $729.99, which works out to about $146 a year if you keep it for five years.
- Best Buy’s main Black Friday sale starts Nov. 19, and most purchases made from Oct. 30 to Dec. 31 can be returned through Jan. 15, 2027.
How we picked these Black Friday laptop deals
We did not test these laptops in person. Each pick is based on the maker’s own spec sheet and the price and stock shown on Best Buy’s product page on Nov. 9. We skipped any Windows laptop with only 8GB of memory, because it slows down fast with a browser and a few apps open, and any laptop that uses eMMC storage, which is cheaper and slower than a real SSD.
We also skipped a deal that looked great this morning and then changed. A Dell XPS 13 showed $999.99 early on Nov. 9 and was back at $1,499.99 when we checked again. A HyperX OMEN 16 OLED gaming laptop we planned to include went from $1,524.99 to $2,149.99 the same day, so it is not on this list. That is how fast these prices move, so check the price on the page before you pay.
If you want a quick primer first, our guide on how to choose a laptop that will last five years explains memory, storage and screens in plain terms.
Best cheap laptop deal for school: HP 14-inch Chromebook Plus, $449
Best for: Students, and anyone who mostly uses a browser, Google Docs and video calls.
This is the 14-inch Chromebook Plus with an Intel Core 3 N355 chip, 8GB of memory, 128GB of UFS storage, a faster type of flash than eMMC, and a 14-inch touch screen. Best Buy listed it at $449 on Nov. 9, $150 below its $599 comparison price. Chromebooks run Google’s ChromeOS, which needs less memory than Windows, so 8GB is fine here. HP lists the 14-inch Chromebook Plus at 3.05 pounds.
Split over four years of school, $449 is about $112 a year.
The downside: 128GB fills up if you download a lot of video, and the battery is rated at up to 12 hours on Best Buy’s listing, a maker figure we have not tested. Skip if: you need Windows-only software, such as some exam or design apps your school requires.
HP 14-inch Chromebook Plus · paid link
Best everyday Windows laptop deal: HP OmniBook 3 16-inch, $729.99
Best for: Home, family and office work on a big screen.
This OmniBook 3 has an Intel Core 7 350 chip, 16GB of memory, a 512GB SSD and a 16-inch 2K touch screen. Best Buy listed it at $729.99 on Nov. 9 and shows a $1,199.99 comparison value. Judge it on the $729.99, not on the size of the “save” number. Kept for five years, it costs about $146 a year.
The downside: The screen is a regular LCD, not OLED, and the Core 7 350 is a mainstream chip rather than one of Intel’s top Ultra chips. Skip if: you carry a laptop every day, since a 16-inch machine is big in a bag.
HP OmniBook 3 16-inch · paid link
If you want a Mac
The best Mac laptop deal we found is already on our live list of Black Friday tech deals: the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip, 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage. The 15-inch model with the same memory and storage was $1,349 at Best Buy on Nov. 9, which is not a big enough cut to recommend.
When Best Buy’s Black Friday laptop deals end
The upshot: You do not have to wait for Nov. 27. Best Buy says its early Black Friday deals started Nov. 6 with new ones every Friday, and its Black Friday Doorbusters and Deals run for 10 days from Nov. 19, according to Best Buy’s holiday calendar. Most purchases made from Oct. 30 through Dec. 31 can be returned through Jan. 15, 2027, or Jan. 31, 2027 for My Best Buy Plus and Total members.
That return window is your safety net. If a laptop you bought this week drops in price on Nov. 19, ask Best Buy about a price match before you think about returning it. Our guide on how to tell if a Black Friday deal is really a deal shows how to check a product’s price history before you buy.
