Black Friday is one of the best times of the year to save big on big-ticket items like desktop PCs. Any reduction is worth a look when prices typically climb into the thousands, especially with cutting-edge AI processors, spacious storage, and top-flight connectivity. With tons of different models on the market, we’ve picked out the best options on sale, so you’ll find more than a few Editors’ Choice winners on sale.
Desktop PCs are the mark of the true tech-head: devoting desk space in your home to a permanent computer means you’re serious about things, and you can use them for gaming, productivity, content creation, and much more. While the desktop market has been shrinking over the last few decades as laptops and tablets become more popular, there are still very worthwhile models on the market. Here are the best discounts on popular desktops from HP, Apple, Dell, and other top brands.
HP Desktop Computer Deal
We’re still waiting on a full review of HP’s new OmniDesk line of towers, but we did get some quality time with them at CES this year, and walked away very impressed. The stylish desktop has a woodgrain-look front panel that makes it stand out, and technological improvements include compact, efficient construction with good airflow, along with a ton of accessible front-facing ports. This is a totally capable home productivity desktop that’ll serve the whole family, and a Black Friday price drop of 43% is massive.
Dell Desktop Computer Deals
For unexplained reasons, Dell has done a company-wide renaming of many of their products in the last few months. This “Dell Tower Plus” is the same machine as the Dell XPS desktop we reviewed here. This price gets you a solid midrange tower with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, integrated Intel graphics, 32GB of RAM for multitasking seamlessly, and a 1TB drive. Dell has discounts on a bunch of different configurations all the way up to a Core Ultra 9 285K with a whopping 64GB of RAM, 4TB of storage, and a new 50-series Nvidia GPU, so there’s a lot of flexibility to be found in this deal.
Dell also makes a wide range of gaming hardware, with their Alienware line of the world’s best-known PC brands. The Area 51 is their high-end designation, and in our review of the 2025 Alienware Area-51, we loved its awesome redesign with a metal front panel and easy-access tempered glass side panel letting you fiddle with your components to your heart’s content. You get a solid Blackwell-series Nvidia 5070 Ti graphics card, plenty of RAM and storage, and a fast Core Ultra 7 processor to round it out. Throw in a clever and efficient positive-pressure cooling system and you’ve got a great desktop at a great price.
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Apple Desktop Computer Deal
Apple’s Mac Mini is, by far, the best small-form-factor desktop on the market, earning an Editors’ Choice award from us in our review. The pint-sized PC is barely the size of a CD case and runs on the seriously optimized M4 processor for ultra-smooth performance on creative and productivity apps. The storage loadout is a bit low, but plenty of well-placed ports means hooking up an external drive is a breeze. This is the most affordable base model, with just 16GB of RAM, but a $120 price drop on Amazon makes it an absolute steal.
Geekom Desktop Computer Deal
Want a compact desktop of the Windows (or Linux) variety? In our listing of the best mini PCs, we said that the Geekom A6 was the best one you could get on a budget, praising the excellent productivity performance and wide array of ports they managed to fit in a tiny footprint. We loved its light weight, simple setup, and good heat management, but noted that the internal fan can get loud if you really push it. You can read our full review for a nuts-and-bolts teardown of this Editors’ Choice-winning machine.
Lenovo Desktop Computer Deals
We don’t have a review of the sixth-generation ThinkCentre M90a all-in-one, but we did put the fifth-generation one through its paces, and in our extensive review we gave it an Editors’ Choice award and praised its impressive performance, bright and crisp screen, lots of different stand options and settings, and the ability to use it as an independent monitor for another desktop. Lenovo consistently impresses us with its top-tier build quality, and being able to snag a 24% price drop on this capable unit on Black Friday is a great deal.
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Lenovo does compact desktops as well, and we were quite impressed by the performance of the ThinkCentre Neo Ultra in our review. After putting it through extensive benchmarking, reviewer Charles Jefferies declared that it “excels in GPU performance and multi-display support for power users,” letting you hook up a whopping seven individual screens to the unit. It’s ultra-compact, sporting an internal power supply for a streamlined form factor, and sports a dedicated GPU, which is rare. A massive discount makes it a hot pick.
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K. Thor Jensen
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K. Thor Jensen is a writer and cartoonist living in the Pacific Northwest. He has contributed to dozens of prestigious outlets, including PCMag, Tested, Clickhole, and Newsweek. His second graphic novel, Cloud Stories, was released in 2017.