When Apple teased us with a four - day shopping event for Black Friday this year , we were intrigued . Not only does Apple historically treat Black Friday as a individual - solar day affair , ignore the relaxation of the weekend and Cyber Monday , it also does n’t offer much in the way of any real savings on its new product . So we were bright that things might be unlike this twelvemonth .
But unless Apple plan on surprising us with new sales event each day — and we have no rationality to consider it will — the current offerings are just as unimpressive as they were last year . Instead of actual savings , your “ discount ” comes in the form of an Apple Store gift card ( so you have to buy more stuff ) , and Apple has once again excluded any of the new intersection the great unwashed require . ( At first glimpse it looks like the novel iPads are part of the sale , since Apple has adorned the older models with the young Pro wallpaper , but woefully that ’s not the case.)Here ’s everything Apple is includingRemove non - product linkas part of the sale :
$25 gift card
Apple TV Apple TV 4 K
$50 gift card
iPhone 7/7 Plus iPhone 8/8 Plus 9.7 - in iPad iPad mini 4 HomePod Apple Watch Series 3 GPS / GPS+Cellular Beats Studio3 Beats Solo3 Powerbeats3
$100 gift card
10.5 - column inch iPad Pro
$200 gift card
MacBook MacBook Pro ( all models ) MacBook Air ( 2017 model ) iMac ( all models ) Mac Pro
The good deal here is probably the13 - in MacBook Pro with Touch BarRemove non - product link , which bring the effective price down to $ 1,599 . We wrotean extensive comparison of Apple ’s little notebooks , but that configuration is well deserving that discount rate , with 256 GB of entrepot , an eighth - gen central processor , True Tone show , and four USB - C port . But otherwise , you’ll notice salutary passel on these productselsewhere .
