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Enlarge Ars Technica At the moment’s tech deal roundup brings a variety of leftover gross sales from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Lenovo, for one, continues to be working a few offers on excellent ThinkPad laptops: a configuration of its newest ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an Eighth-gen Core i5, 8GB …

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Enlarge / The Sega Genesis Mini. Greetings, Arsians! At present is Cyber Monday, and whereas the Dealmaster has an enormous roundup of each worthwhile tech deal he can discover, we perceive that not everyone seems to be searching for a big-ticket merchandise. For many who solely want to purchase a …

Enlarge Valentina Palladino Electronics gross sales are plentiful throughout Black Friday and Cyber Monday, so this is among the finest occasions of the 12 months to purchase a brand new laptop computer. That will help you make an knowledgeable resolution whereas eradicating the necessity to wade via the ocean of …

Enlarge Ars Technica Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is again with a jumbo-sized roundup of hand-picked Cyber Monday tech offers. To be candid, lots of the reductions we’re seeing on Black Friday’s sister vacation are much like what we noticed final week. We do have some new gives value noting, together …

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Enlarge / The Nintendo Swap. Picture Illustration by Guillaume Payen/SOPA Photos/LightRocket through Getty Photos In the present day is Black Friday, and meaning loads of online game offers. Whereas the annual purchasing occasion continues to be crammed with affords that push mediocre merchandise or costs that are not significantly low, …

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Enlarge Ars Technica Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is again with one other spherical of reductions to share—and, nicely, it is the large one. Whereas the vacation gross sales have been steadily trickling out over the previous few weeks, it is now Black Friday, which implies the floodgates are formally open …

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Enlarge / Apple’s AirPods. Replace, 10:24PM ET: The 2 Apple offers highlighted beneath seem like out of inventory now at Walmart, however you may nonetheless get AirPods for $134 at Amazon and different retailers. There are additionally a bunch of different good Black Friday offers that simply went dwell—verify them …