Black Friday is the absolute best time for finding good deals on laptops. (I would know: I've tracked them for Mashable since 2019.) And with retailers taking full advantage of the holiday's abnormally late timing this year, running sales that span most of November, steep discounts are expected to be plentiful all month long.

The Samsung Tab A9+ is a great lower-to-mid-range option with an 11-inch screen and a 1920 x 1200, making it a great streaming device for just $220, instead of the usual $270. It also comes with the very reasonable Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 CPU, a 128GB of storage, and 8GB of RAM.

Amazon is holding out on us — kind of. The retail giant isn't offering a ton of great deals on Windows laptops, gaming laptops, or Chromebooks ahead of its Black Friday Week sale, which is set to run for nine days from Thursday,