The 5 Best Tech Deals for the May 4th Weekend: May the Savings Be With You

May 4 is Star Wars Day once again, and we’ll be celebrating the sci-fi fan holiday by rewatching the good movies and series (you can decide which ones those are) and shopping for deals. While we still don’t have howling speeder bikes or fastidious C-3PO-level droids, technology is catching up, and the five products in this roundup all would have blown the minds of George Lucas and crew back in 1977 when A New Hope debuted. The discounts will blow your Death Star right now, as we’ve got price drops as low as 57% off for AirPods, smartwatches, CPUs, and more.

There are lots of different smartwatches on the market, but Samsung’s constant iteration has kept their Galaxy Watch ahead of the pack. In our review of the Galaxy Watch 7, we praised its impressive array of biometric sensors and the software that shapes your data into actionable health insights. With some of the best sleep monitoring of any consumer wearable, a precise heart rate monitor and AI-powered insights, it’s a tremendous watch for anybody interested in more information about their body. Needless to say, it does all the other standard smartwatch stuff, letting you read and respond to messages, play music and more. Amazon has a 30% discount right now.

We gave an Editors’ Choice award to the best AirPods yet in our review, lauding their exceptional active noise cancellation that is so advanced in its sound processing that it can convert the earbuds to FDA-approved hearing aids. Walmart has them on sale for 30% off this weekend, so definitely take advantage of that. With the rich, well-balanced audio we’ve come to expect from AirPods, they’re comfortable enough to use for long periods, have multiple listening modes, and the charging case works both wirelessly and with USB-C inputs. They’re spectacular headphones and this is a great price for them.

Amazon’s smart speakers have become virtually ubiquitous, and they’ve steadily reduced both their footprint and their price. The Echo Pop is the most affordable way to add Alexa voice controls to your smart home, with surprisingly robust sound and tons of useful features. In our review, we gave it an “Excellent” rating for its competent, balanced sound, simple setup, and nice extra features like the ability to act as an Eero mesh Wi-Fi node. While it’s not the most assertive Bluetooth speaker you can get, it’s a great pick for kids’ rooms, kitchens, and other areas where you might need a little Alexa help.

Nintendo has one of the deepest backlogs of classic games of any company, and modern hardware gives them the opportunity to present them to fresh audiences with new features. When Super Mario RPG was originally released for the SNES in 1996, it was a dazzling collaboration between legendary developers Square and Nintendo’s iconic characters, and the timing-based battles and tons of personality made it a huge hit. The 2023 Switch remake gives you gorgeous updated graphics and some quality-of-life improvements, and we gave it an Editors’ Choice award in our review. Right now Woot has it on sale for 50% off.

The ongoing chaos in the import market is making PC builders a little nervous, so now’s the time to snap up components before prices get ridiculous. We had good things to say about AMD’s Ryzen 7 5700X CPU in our 2023 review, noting that it delivered the best performance to price value in the Ryzen 7 5000 series, with the Zen 3 microarchitecture ensuring speedy and stable performance. It benchmarked well, and compatibility with AM4 motherboards makes it a flexible solution for all kinds of builds. This 57% discount at Amazon won’t last long.

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