Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

131–140 of 200 posts

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#131

Post by hedora »

itronitron wrote: post #95
RyanShook wrote: post #44

This ASUS Chromebook for $80 on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AK6oDD

can Ubuntu be installed on a (former) chromebook?

I've had good luck with Acer Aspire windows laptops. They're basically Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and are in the $100-$500 range.

Keyboards and trackpads are generally tolerable (so, 75th percentile or so).

I wish they'd make windows ARM laptops with less locked down (than Chromebook) BIOSes (that would also run Linux), but windows on arm is perpetually non-viable.

The pine book pro is also a decent choice for a cheap Linux laptop.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#132

Post by gavinray »

notacoward wrote: post #94

I put off buying a new gaming laptop for my daughter until I could find one with decent specs for under US$1000. I'd check every week or so. Finally, thanks to Black Friday, I found two yesterday that had just crept under. Asus TUF F15 at B&H: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1702433-REG/asus_fx50... Acer Predator Helios at Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-predator-helios-300-15-6-f... They're really…

I owned the previous generation of the Asus TUF, the A15, along with my wife, and can recommend it.

My experience with these low-end gaming laptops is that the screens are low quality. You might buy her an external monitor and a wireless keyboard + mouse so she can use it in clamshell mode.

But those are fantastic deals -- kind of jealous actually. Last year I paid ~$1,400 on Black Friday for an MSI GE76 Raider 11UE that has these specs:

  > 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 17.3" FHD 144 Hz, i7-11800H (11th Gen), RTX 3060
Computing advances at insane paces.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#133

Post by geodel »

healsdata wrote: post #104
thinkloop wrote: post #59

How Black Friday works: Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on…

Certainly true for larger retailers, but there's plenty of small and independent businesses that offer true discounts today. For example, many artists that sell enamel pins keep them at the same price forever. So a discount today is a true discount. Beyond that, you can also look for any retailer selling gift cards at a discount. Given that gift cards spend at their face value, you know for certain the discount is a…

Gift card is one of most profitable category of items. Every year so many go unused, lost, thrown away. So it is pure profit for retailers.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#134

Post by austinpena »

dceddia wrote: post #91

I'm doing a 50% off sale for my app Recut, https://getrecut.com It's a simplified video editor that removes pauses and dead air, and creates a cut list you can then import into a "real" editor. Saves a bunch of time if you're doing talking-head videos, vlogging, podcasts, screencasts... the sorts of content where the first step of editing is to chop out the long pauses and mistakes. I originally built it because I wa…

Do you find that people use the “remind me on my computer” feature? I like it

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#138

Post by JadeNB »

TexanFeller wrote: post #18

MBP 14" are $500 off sticker again like they were recently. It's still expensive, but the M1 Pro based laptops really are that good and I'm happy as a pig in poop. M1 Airs are 800 and great for your lower tech relatives.

> MBP 14" are $500 off sticker again like they were recently. It's still expensive, but the M1 Pro based laptops really are that good and I'm happy as a pig in poop.

Where are you finding them? Apple themselves do not seem to have any such discount.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#139

Post by dceddia »

austinpena wrote: post #134
dceddia wrote: post #91

I'm doing a 50% off sale for my app Recut, https://getrecut.com It's a simplified video editor that removes pauses and dead air, and creates a cut list you can then import into a "real" editor. Saves a bunch of time if you're doing talking-head videos, vlogging, podcasts, screencasts... the sorts of content where the first step of editing is to chop out the long pauses and mistakes. I originally built it because I wa…

Do you find that people use the “remind me on my computer” feature? I like it

It brings in a handful of signups, not as many as I thought it would. Plus the occasional comment about how people like it :)

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#140

Post by thinkloop »

seabass wrote: post #115
thinkloop wrote: post #59

How Black Friday works: Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on…

Not always. In order to attract business amid all of the other sales, plenty of companies do offer genuine black friday discounts. Particularly when you’re not selling a physical product (think gym memberships or spa days, for example) these sorts of things don’t decline in value each day.

Agree, op is the fundamental impetus, but various supporting mechanisms are also at play.
Post reply on HN