11 Best Apple Black Friday Deals (2024): MacBooks, iPads, AirPods

if you've been eyeing a pricey MacBook recently, present is the clip to deed that bargain button. Apple Black Friday deals are already present and respective WIRED-approved gadgets are connected sale—from iPads and MacBooks to Apple Watches and AirPods. All of these deals are from third-party retailers similar Amazon and Best Buy; Apple doesn't person income of its own, but the lone promotion you'll find connected its website is the quality to get up to a $200 acquisition card if you bargain an eligible product.

WIRED Featured Deals

• The champion MacBook for astir people: MacBook Air (M3, 2024) for $844 ($206 off)
• The tiniest tablet: iPad Mini (A17 Pro, 2024) for $400 ($99 off))—Clip the Coupon
• An all-in-one desktop: iMac (M4, 2024) for $1,149 ($148 off)—Clip the Coupon
• Excellent earbuds: AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) With USB-C for $154 ($45 off)
• AirPods Alternatives: Beats Studio Buds+ for $130 ($40 off)

MacBook Deals

This is our favorite MacBook for astir radical (7/10, WIRED Recommends). It has a coagulated 13.6-inch LCD screen, a 1080p webcam, and an M3 spot that delivers a noticeable boost successful show compared to the older M1 chip. It handles mundane tasks with easiness but it tin besides clasp its ain with immoderate photograph and video editing.

If you privation a MacBook much almighty than the M3 successful the MacBook Air, this is the adjacent measurement up. Unlike its predecessor, it has 3 USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 successful summation to an HDMI port, SD paper slot, headphone jack, and MagSafe charging port. Apple besides accrued representation connected the basal exemplary to 16 gigabytes (up from 8 GB). This merchantability applies to the exemplary with the basal M4 chip, which is simply a decent upgrade implicit the MacBook Air above. But you tin besides configure it with an M4 Pro oregon M4 Max for much power—both are connected sale.

For eventual power, there's the 16-inch MacBook Pro (7/10, WIRED Review). Along with a Mini-LED screen, 120-Hz refresh rate, 1080p webcam, and six-speaker dependable system, it besides comes with caller USB ports that enactment Thunderbolt 5 (120 Gbps/sec) for speedier information transfers. You'll person the prime betwixt an M4 Pro oregon M4 Max chip. We tested the M4 Pro which was lone somewhat faster than past year's M3 Max chip. But it's a large prime if you privation a MacBook Pro that tin grip thing and everything you propulsion astatine it.

The brand-new iMac with M4 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) isn't each that antithetic than the M3-powered version, but it does travel with a fewer upgrades. There's a 12-megapixel webcam with enactment for Center Stage, a nano-texture show that makes for a amended viewing experience, and each peripherals present person USB-C ports (finally). Thanks to the caller M4 chip, it besides delivers large performance. It's the apical prime successful our Best All-in-One Computers guide.

iPad Deals

If you've been waiting for Apple's caller iPad Mini (8/10, WIRED Recommends) to spell connected sale, hold nary longer. On Amazon, if you clip the coupon, you tin prevention a full $100! The changes to the latest exemplary are mostly internal. It comes equipped with an A17 Pro spot (the aforesaid wrong the iPhone 15 Pro), which tin grip some graphically demanding games and enactment for Apple Intelligence (the company's suite of artificial quality features with iOS 18.1). It's besides compatible with the Apple Pencil Pro, truthful you don't person to get an iPad Pro to bask the improved stylus. Its tiny stature besides makes it large to question with, whether you're utilizing it for reading ebooks oregon gaming.

The iPad (10th-gen) (7/10, WIRED Review) is our favourite iPad to urge to astir people. It has an A14 Bionic spot (which you'll besides find successful the iPhone 12) that ne'er felt sluggish portion investigating it. It besides has a modern design, with slim bezels astir a ample 10.9-inch Liquid Retina show (IPS LCD), Touch ID integrated into the powerfulness button, a USB-C larboard for charging, and a 12-megapixel front-facing camera that's located successful the halfway of the iPad.

AirPods Deals

These are our favourite AirPods (8/10, WIRED Recommends). They travel with a clump of large features including Adaptive Transparency mode (which combines sound cancellation and transparency to set audio), enactment for Find My successful lawsuit you suffer them, Conversation Awareness (which lowers the euphony and inheritance sound erstwhile having a conversation), and an IP54 sweat- and dust-resistance rating. Sound quality, meanwhile, is above-average with crisp highs, authoritative bass, and fantabulous sound cancellation. You'll besides summation entree to Apple's caller proceeding assistance features, designed for radical with debased to mean proceeding loss.

This past September, Apple yet updated the AirPods Max (8/10, WIRED Recommends) to see USB-C. Aside from the caller port, the remainder of the features stay the aforesaid arsenic connected the Lightning mentation (those are on merchantability arsenic well). You do, however, person the prime betwixt a fewer caller colors including orange, purple, blue, starlight, and midnight. These over-the-ear headphones travel equipped with a monolithic soundstage, affluent bass, and large sound cancellation. It besides has large physique quality, with a mesh headband and cloth (replaceable) earcups.

Not into AirPods? The Beats Studio Buds+ are our favourite alternate for Apple users. They travel with each the indispensable features including progressive sound cancellation, transparency mode, and spatial audio. They're comfy to deterioration and casual to use, implicit with carnal buttons connected the extracurricular of each bud. They diagnostic large artillery life—36 hours erstwhile combined with the charging case. You tin besides prime from assorted colors including silver, ivory, black, and transparent.

Apple Watch Deals

The Series 10 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is the newest Apple Watch to articulation the lineup. It has a bigger surface than immoderate different Apple Watch that came before, yet it's besides thinner, lighter, and supports accelerated charging. The smartwatch runs the latest WatchOS 11 operating system, truthful you'll person features similar Training Load, which displays however your workouts interaction your fittingness implicit time, and Vitals, to cheque your baseline each morning. It's important to note, however, that it doesn't travel with a humor oxygen sensor.

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is our go-to smartwatch recommendation for anyone who chiefly participates successful outdoor sports. It delivers accelerated show acknowledgment to the S9 spot and an ultra-wideband spot for enhanced precision finding. It besides comes equipped with dual-frequence GPS, a Backtrack functionality for creating virtual breadcrumb trails connected the Compass app (via the Action button), and entree to offline maps (that you'll person to download to your iPhone). Oh, and you won't person to complaint it each day.