AM EST This story has been updated with new laptop deals ahead of Black Friday. Black Friday is the absolute best time for finding good deals on laptops. (I would know: I've tracked them for Mashable since 2019.

So what are the best Black Friday MacBook deals so far? For me it's the MacBook Air M2 for $749 on Amazon, which is $250 off. And the brand-new MacBook Pro 14-inch with the M4 chip is over $100 off.

The M4 MacBook Pro is pretty stellar. Apple made it far better than the previous generation — without increasing the cost. That includes bumping up the memory of the base configuration to 16GB, improving the webcam,