Black Friday may still be a couple weeks away, but that hasn’t stopped big names like Apple, Asus, and Dell from rolling out some fantastic laptop deals. It’s clear Black Friday isn’t just a single day anymore — retailers now use November as a testing ground for dropping prices.

If you're hoping to pick up a new laptop during the holiday sales, you're in luck, because Black Friday (and pre-Black Friday) is always a great time to snag some fantastic offers. MacBooks normally show up to the Black Friday party in a big way, and the discounts are already brewing (even the latest M4 MacBook Pro is on sale).

Saving money is our whole job here in the PCMag Deals Department, and one of the best ways to do that in the portable computing world is by looking beyond Apple and Windows laptops to the Chromebook market.