If you’re looking for savings on a desktop or laptop, there’s no need to wait until Black Friday or Cyber Monday — HP is already getting a head start on the holidays with its Early Black Friday Flash Sale, which offers discounts on desktops, laptops, all-in-one PCs, PC accessories and more. While there aren’t any hugely slashed prices at present — most desktops and laptops are marked down by $50 to $200 — these laptop and desktop deals are nothing to sneeze at.
Take a look below for the best deals that are currently on offer. If you’re not seeing anything in these live deals that strikes your fancy, keep checking back for the latest deals. I’ll keep this story updated as HP adds new products to its holiday sale and adjusts pricing.
HP Spectre x360 13t: $950
Save $200
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The 13-inch Spectre x360 is one of CNET’s favorite two-in-one convertibles for its premium styling, light weight and long battery life. The entry-level configuration of this customizable laptop features a 10th-gen Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, Intel Iris Plus graphics and a 256GB solid-state drive. With a full HD (1,920×1,080-pixel) resolution, the 14-inch touchscreen can rotate 360 degrees into tablet mode. The $200 discount also applies if you add upgrades, and I’d suggest spending $70 to upgrade to a 512GB SSD with 32GB of fast Optane memory, which brings the total to $1,020.
HP Envy 17t: $950
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I wouldn’t usually recommend a humongous, 17-inch laptop unless it’s a gaming laptop, but these are not usual times. If you’re currently working from home and plan to continue doing so well into 2021, it might make sense to get a bigger laptop that you might lug from your kitchen to your living room to your bedroom instead of commuting with it to and from the office every day. The baseline configuration of the Envy 17t-cg000 gives you a 10th-gen Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce MX330 graphics and a 512GB SSD with 32GB of fast Intel Optane memory. The roomy 17.3-inch display has a 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution and you can add touch support for no additional charge. The Envy 17t should not be confused with a gaming laptop, but the GeForce MX330 GPU should let you play less demanding games at full resolution with some quality settings enabled. Two upgrades of this customizable model are attractive: doubling the RAM for only $50 and getting a touch display for $40.
HP Envy 13: $1,100
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HP’s premium thin-and-light is heavy on style and light on weight. It boasts an all-metal design and razor-thin bezels for a compact chassis that weighs less than three pounds. You can save $100 on this model (13-ba0085nr) that features a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce MX350 graphics and a 512GB SSD. That’s enough muscle for media editing in addition to the usual office chores. The 13.3-inch touchscreen has a 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution and is rated for 400 nits of brightness.
HP Omen 15t: $993
Save $107
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Now, this is a gaming laptop. HP’s Home 15t features an aggressive look and a wide range of configuration options. The baseline configuration of this model (15t-dh100) features a 10th-gen Core i7 CPU and GeForce GTX 1650 graphics, but you can upgrade to GeForce RTX 2060 graphics for $190 and still get the $107 discount. The 2060 is the budget card in Nvidia’s RTX lineup but still offers ray tracing, which reproduces how light behaves in the real world to give games a more photorealistic look. I’d also consider doubling the RAM from 8GB to 16GB for $90 and spending $100 to upgrade the display to a refresh rate of 144Hz. Those three upgrades will greatly aid performance and the system’s gaming capabilities and bring the total to a still reasonable $1,380.
HP All-in-One 27: $900
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HP’s 27-inch all-in-one boasts a crisp, 2K (2,256×1,504-pixel) display resolution and a modern design with razor-thin screen bezels. The baseline model features a 10th-gen Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. The one upgrade I recommend for this customizable system is choosing a 128GB SSD as the primary drive, which doesn’t add to the cost, and then selecting a 1TB hard drive as the secondary storage drive for an additional $49. With this pair, you get the speed of an SSD along with the high capacity of the 1TB hard drive for a still reasonable price of $949.
HP All-in-One 24: $650 (Update: Out of stock)
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HP’s 24-inch all-in-one PC gives you a choice of AMD or Intel processors and a black or white chassis. The white model offers an AMD Ryzen 5 chip, 16GB memory, a 256GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive, but it’s currently out of stock. The black model is in stock and features an Intel Core i5 chip but only 8GB of RAM. Both models have a 23.8-inch full HD display, but only the AMD-based model offers touch support.