Early Black Friday Discounts: The Desktop Deals You Can Get Now

Black Friday is arguably the best time to save big on technology. If you’ve held off from not one, but two Prime Days worth of computer sales, plus some seasonal and semi-annual discounts from Dell, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still to come. We know it’s a little early, but there are already deals surfacing.

While not as portable as a laptop, desktops are typically more powerful and they are much easier to upgrade, if you’re the hands-on sort. You can customize your rig to suit your needs more easily, too, whether you want more processing power to multitask, a better GPU to run games or video- and photo-editing software, or more storage in order to keep more files.

Alienware Aurora R14 Ryzen 5 RX 6500 XT

This Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R14 desktop is Black Friday pricing guaranteed. For just about $1,000 after tax, you get an AMD Ryzen 5 5600x processor, AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card, a 512GB SSD, and 16GB RAM. Alienware towers are built with upgrades in mind, so this configuration can change as your needs do. Plus, you get all of the usual Alienware RGB customizability so your setup can look as good as it plays.

Lenovo IdeaCentre 5i Intel i7 RTX 3060

With a 12th Generation Intel Core i7 processor, RTX 3060 graphics card, 512GB SSD, and 16GB RAM, this Lenovo IdeaCentre Gaming 5i desktop is the perfect entry-level gaming configuration that won’t break the bank. While the current price isn’t technically a sale, it’s still a great value for what you’re getting. Plus, Best Buy price matches, so if it does go down in price for the holidays you’re good to go.

Dell Inspiron 3910 Intel i7 512GB SSD

This Inspiron 3910 series desktop features a 12th Generation Intel Core i7 12-core processor, 512GB SSD, and 16GB RAM. This is a decent entry-level desktop for those who don’t need too much processing power for media editing or gaming and just want something to multitask between word processing, surfing the web, and streaming music and video. For the price, you can’t go wrong with this configuration as a daily-use desktop.