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Score Chromebooks for as low as $129 on Black Friday

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UPDATE: Nov. 20, 2023, 3:00 p.m. EST This story has been updated with more early Black Friday Chromebook deals.

A quick look at the greatest early Black Friday Chromebook deals:

Acer Chromebook Plus 515
the Acer Chromebook Spin 311
the Acer Chromebook 516 GE

If you need a dirt-cheap laptop for basic browsing, schoolwork, or light gaming (and aren’t married to MacOS or Windows), a Chromebook can be a smart buy: They scrap fancy specs in favor of built-in security features, rugged builds, decent battery lives, and affordable price points, and they all come with 100GB of cloud storage for one year via Google One. It’s tough to find a better value pick.

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The greatest early Black Friday 2023 laptop deals

Black Friday is a great time to purchase a Chromebook — or any kind of laptop, really — as they tend to drop to outrageous year-round lows ahead of the holidays; last year’s record was a mere $79. We’ve only found one Chromebook that cheap ahead of Black Friday 2023 (and it’s an in-store doorbuster at Target), but if you broaden your search to $200 or below, you’ve still got tons of options — including one model from Google’s brand-new Chromebooks Plus line.

Keep reading for a running list of the greatest early Black Friday Chromebook deals thus far. (Spoiler: As of Nov. 20, our favorites are all Acer models from Greatest Buy.) Be sure to check back often, as we’ll continue to update it in the lead-up to the holiday.

Note: All newly added deals are marked with a ✨. Deals with a strikeout were either sold out or expired at the time of writing.

Chromebook deals

Why we like it

Google recently unveiled the Chromebooks Plus, a new series of premium Chromebooks with built-in Google apps, Full HD IPS displays, and 1080p+ cameras with AI features. This 15.6-inch Acer model comes with a 12th-generation Intel Core i3 processor, 8GB of RAM for multitasking, and 128GB of storage. Greatest Buy has it marked down to just $269, which is 33% off its sticker price of $399 — a hefty discount for a laptop that only just debuted in October.

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2-in-1 Chromebook deals

Why we like it

In the cheapest overall laptop deal of Black Friday 2023 so far (that’s not an in-store exclusive), you can get this 11.6-inch convertible Chromebook from Greatest Buy for just $129. It’s not an impressive PC by any means: It has an old MediaTek processor, a measly 4GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage, and a 1360 x 768 touchscreen display with chunky bezels. But for this price, it’s a solid buy for casual tasks like web browsing, taking notes, and watching YouTube videos. (Note that it usually sells for $169.99 on Acer’s website — the retailer’s price is slightly inflated.)

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Gaming Chromebook deals

Why we like it

The Chromebook 516 GE is a 16-inch laptop from 2022 that’s designed specifically for cloud-based gaming (the GE stands for “Gaming Edition”), packing a 120Hz display and a backlit keyboard; this model has a 12th-gen Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of SSD storage. It doesn’t have a fancy GPU, but that didn’t matter to the experts at our sister site PCMag, who took it for a test run: “[It’s] still one of the greatest Chromebooks we’ve ever seen, and one uniquely suited to let you get into high-end PC gaming with a fraction of the hardware usually required,” they wrote. It typically sells for $649.99, but you can snag it on sale for just $449 at Greatest Buy — a 31% discount we’ve only spotted once before.

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