The best deals we found in Best Buys Treat Yourself sale
Best Buy’s latest sale tries to inject some variety into the many early Black Friday deals we’ve been seeing since the end of last month. The company appears to be celebrating Single’s Day with its one-day-only “treat yourself” sale, which discounts a number of video games, smart home devices, wearables and more. Whether you decide to pick something up for yourself or someone on your list, there a
re a handful of decent tech deals in this sale — and Amazon’s matching a couple of them. We gathered them all here so you don’t have to search for them.Sonos Five - $399 Sonos The Sonos Five, which was previously called the Sonos Play:5, is $100 off at Best Buy, bringing it down to $399. When Sonos changed the speaker’s name, it also upgraded the internals a bit so it could receive more software updates in the future. Sonos will likely have its own Black Friday sale in the coming weeks, but this is a great sale price to grab now if this speaker’s on your list. Buy Sonos Five at Best Buy - $399 Buy Sonos Five at Amazon - $399Animal Crossing: New Horizons - $50 Devindra Hardawar / Engadget Best Buy’s now matching the $50 sale price we’ve seen elsewhere on Animal Crossing: New Horizons. If you haven’t already picked up this Switch game, now’s a great time to do so if you’re in need of some escapism.Buy Animal Crossing at Best Buy - $50 Buy Animal Crossing at Amazon - $50Philips Hue White + Color LED starter pack - $130 Philips Smart lights are some of the easiest IoT devices to get started with and Philips’ excellent Hue starter kit is $60 off right now. Not only does this bundle include the bridge that’s necessary to link all of the smart light bulbs, but it also includes three white and color bulbs and a dimmer switch.Buy Hue starter kit at Best Buy - $130iRobot Roomba 960 - $300 iRobot The high-end Roomba 960 normally costs $500 but you can get it for only $300 during this sale. It has all of the features you’d expect out of a robot vacuum including WiFi connectivity, a companion app and the ability to find its way back to its home base after a cleaning. This model also has dual rubber brushes, which will make it even better for homes with pets.Buy Roomba 960 at Best Buy - $300Fitbit Inspire 2 - $70 Fitbit Fitbit’s new Inspire 2 fitness tracker is down to $70 in this sale, which is $30 off its normal price. This is best for anyone who wants to track daily activity and sleep but doesn’t want a fancy (or complicated) wearable. Fitbit fine-tuned the design of the original Inspire with this second iteration and upped the battery life to 10 days.Buy Inspire 2 at Best Buy - $70 Buy Inspire 2 at Amazon - $70AeroGarden Harvest Elite Slim - $100 AeroGarden AeroGarden devices are great if you’ve wanted to try your hand at gardening but don’t have the outdoor space to make it happen. The Slim is one of our favorites not only because it’s compact enough to fit on a countertop (and not totally overwhelm it) but it also lets you grow up to six plants indoors. The Slim dropped to $100 in Best Buy’s first early Black Friday sale a couple weeks ago, and now it’s back to that same great price.Buy Harvest Elite Slim at Best Buy - $100MSI GF65 gaming laptop - $900 MSI MSI machines are quite expensive, but you can snag this GF65 gaming laptop for for $300 less. This particular model runs on a 9th-gen Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, 512GB SSD and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 graphics. It also has a 15.6-inch FHD display and dedicated heat management hardware for both the CPU and GPU.Buy GF65 laptop at Best Buy - $900Follow @EngadgetDeals on Twitter for the latest tech deals and buying advice.
Author: Valentina Palladino
Date: 2020-11-11
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