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Black Friday Bargain Guide
Black Friday Bargain Guide
Get the jump on all those other shoppers.
by Craveonline
Nov 26, 2008
Once your post-turkey tryptophan coma wears off, you may be among the legions braving the mall mobs to take advantage of the traditional Black Friday retail extravaganza. If so, you better get up well before dawn and have a game plan, because these people don't mess around. They come loaded with lists, sleeping bags, energy bars and switchblades to make sure they're the ones getting the deals, not you. Why the switchblade, you ask? Well, if you've got that last $70 GPS system from Pep Boys in your greedy little hands and you feel a hot stabbing sensation in your lower back while you're in line, it might be good to have 911 on speed dial.
We've scoured the ads leaked to Black Friday Web sites to put together a guide to some of the best deals out there on the day-after-Thanksgiving. If you're a geek, a gamer or a couch potato, this guide is for you.
 
Top Black Friday Deals:
 

Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Bundle for Wii, $69.99 - Target

 

One of the hottest games of the season, hot price. You won’t see the same game for less anywhere else this holiday season, or likely for a long time to come. If you’ve been a Guitar Hero holdout until now, here’s your chance to get on the train for far less than everybody else paid.


Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, $24.99 - Best Buy


 

Play 25 tracks from Aerosmith’s nearly four-decade career, as well as other songs from artists such as Run DMC, Lenny Kravitz and more. If you need to pick up some guitar controllers as well, Target has a bundle with dueling guitars for $100.


Insignia 7.0 Megapixel Digital Camera, $59.99 - Best Buy


 

It's not exactly gonna make you the next Ansel Adams, but Best Buy's Insignia 7.0 Digital comes at a dirt-cheap price, with high ISO sensitivity and face detection technology. Coupled with digital image stabilization, these features ensure vivid, detailed photos without blurring. Which is total bullshit, all cameras in this quality bracket blur your shots like they're all of Bigfoot, but for a teen's first camera you can't go wrong with this one.


HP AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core System, $599.96 - Best Buy


 

There's never been a better time to show everyone how you won't be fooled by those crazy Mac sycophants. This powerful and well-accessorized desktop PC comes loaded with an AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core processor clocked at 2.2GHz, 6GB of DDR2 memory and a 640GB hard drive. Add a 21.6-inch monitor display and Canon inkjet printer, and you've got about $1100 worth of PC equipment for nearly half the price.


GPS - Tom Tom One Third Edition Nav System, $69.99 - Pep Boys


 

Pep Boys is the place if you're looking for the most dirt-cheap GPS system out there on Black Friday. Tom Tom's established itself as a respectable name brand, and while their One v.3 GPS may be a no-frills system, it’s compact, it’s in color, and it does all the things you need it to. No sense spending $700 on another GPS, bloated with worthless features that you'll never use.


HP Pavilion G50-112NR Notebook, $349.99 - Office Depot


 

While the price isn't all that incredibly impressive, the hardware you get for your cash has taken a huge leap forward. For the first time ever, $350 will get you a notebook that not only has a dual-core Intel processor, but 3GB of RAM as well. And though it’s an obscure sale model, it carries the HP name as well, so you know you're dealing with at least a fundamental level of quality. Great as a first notebook.


{PB }Panasonic 42-inch 1080p VIERA Plasma HDTV, $899.99 - Circuit City


 

At $400 off MSRP, you’re getting a huge discount, but with a much better quality TV than most of the other deals you'll find on Black Friday. Panasonic’s plasma TVs are famous for their black levels, and this particular set has gotten some great reviews.


Samsung 50-inch Plasma TV, $798 - WalMart


 

WalMart's gonna have people kicking the doors down Thursday night for this Samsung plasma with two HDMI inputs. To stand any chance of nabbing one of these babies, you’d better be early. Like, skip the turkey early.


Western Digital 750GB External Hard Drive, $88.88 - Target


 

Need someplace to store your porn while the family's in town and poking through all your stuff this holiday season? The WD Elements Desktop unit features 750GB of external storage that comes pre-formatted and easily hooks to any PC or Mac via a USB port. The store usually lists the unit at $149.99, which is still a good deal for 3/4 of a terabyte. We couldn’t find one elsewhere for cheaper than $275—and that includes Target’s website.

For even more information on the best Black Friday deals, including a complete list of stores holding promotions, head to blackfriday.info.

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