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Best Black Friday deals for 2008

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Computing, Gaming, Home A/V, Imaging, Mobile | by Randall Bennett | 4 comments

Retailers are doing their best to ignore the non-commercializable Thanksgiving holiday sandwiched between two of the most commercial holidays. And while we're all about Turkey Day, let's be real: We're looking for the best tech deals on Friday just as much as everyone. With that said, let's not wait any longer to reveal some of the best Black Friday deals around. 

Special shout out to DealNews.com, where they hooked us up with some of their picks. Also, BlackFriday.Info has many of the circulars as well that we used to research the deals.

Xbox360 deals

$200 - Dell.com - Xbox360 Arcade + Rock Band 2 and six random Xbox Live Arcade games.

$299 - Target - Xbox 360 Pro system purchase includes $60 Target gift card.

GPS devices

$97 - Wal-Mart - Garmin nuvi 200

$190 - Best Buy - Garmin nuvi 260w

$100 - Target - Magellan Roadmate 1200 

Laptops

$600 - Dell.com - Dell Inspiron 1525 with Core2 Duo (One of our laptop gift guide picks, for $200 off!)

$380 - Best Buy - Toshiba L305D-S5892 15.4 inch laptop

$299 - Dell.com - Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook

$150 - TigerDirect.com - Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook

$999 - TigerDirect.com - Sony Vaio TT

$500 off - SonyStyle.com - Sony Vaio TZ series 11-inch laptops (code:DEALNEWS500TZ)

Apple

We don't have specific details regarding Apple's plans, though we're hearing that they'll be matching big box retailer's prices among other bargains. Check this Obsessable news post for more info. 

Stragglers

Free - Sam's Club - BlackBerry Curve on AT&T

$50 - TigerDirect.com - 4GB Pink Microsoft Zune

$128 - Wal-Mart - Magnavox Blu-ray player, doesn't support profile 2.0 features

$598 - Wal-Mart - 42" Poloroid HDTV

$348 - 6th ave Electronics - Panasonic 5.1 1000 watt HTiB

$150 - TigerDirect - 64GB SSD

Many of these retailers also have printable coupons, and DealNews has rounded up their list of potential printable coupons. If you've got a deal we missed, please post it in the comments ASAP as we're trying to come up with the best Black Friday list possible. Also, if you're looking for more resources, check out BlackFriday.Info and DealNews, which both have the full circulars for each company listed, plus others we didn't mention here. Happy deal hunting!

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News by company:
Apple, Dell
News by glossary term:
SSD, Xbox LIVE Arcade
Profile pages:
Microsoft Xbox 360 Pro, Dell Inspiron Mini 9, Microsoft Xbox 360 Arcade, Apple iPod touch, Apple iPod classic, Apple iPod nano, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite, BlackBerry Curve 8900, Lenovo IdeaPad S10, Sony Vaio TT, Garmin Nuvi 200, Dell Inspiron 1525, Garmin Nuvi 260w, Magellan Roadmate 1200, Magnavox NB500MS9 Blu-ray player, Sony Vaio TZ, Toshiba L305D-S5892

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Jake Tripp external link (5:38 PM on Wed Nov 26, 2008)

Hmm...now I'm thinking it might be worth getting up early to score me a 360 with a $60 gift card.

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Jenn Deering Davis external link (8:50 PM on Wed Nov 26, 2008)

You should also check out CheapTweet at http://cheaptweet.com and see what other deals people have found. It tracks all the deals, discounts, sales and specials being talked about on Twitter and also users to rate those deals. There is lots of great Black Friday stuff there!

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Brad (7:30 PM on Thu Nov 27, 2008)

Beware of Offie Dpepot's ads-- there is an Acer computetr for $229.99 and the instanst savings is ZERO, the customer must purchase the computer and wait for that mail-in-rebate to come in before any sort of discount. Who has 8-12 weeks to see their money come back. This type of sell is supposed to be about deals for the consumers and with the current economic situation one would think that retaiolers would go the extra mile to increase sales for fourth quarter. I am dissappointted with this ad and will not be shopping here or much elsewhere becasue unless you are lined up at major retailers early Thanksgiving morning the likelyness that you would recieve one of these deals is not likely at all. Chalk one up to the major retailers for finding out a way to increase revenues without keeping the customer in mind.

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John external link (11:28 PM on Tue Nov 17, 2009)

this year bfd is a hope for our economy

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