Let’s hop into the Wayback Machine and travel to August of 1966, when Richard M. Schulze opened his first hi-fi stereo store, Sound of Music, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Capitalizing on the pop craze, the store made a million dollars in revenue its first year and grew explosively, expanding its product offerings and eventually renaming itself to…Best Buy. Sixty years later, the chain is going strong with 1,117 locations in the United States and Canada, making it the largest specialty electronics retailer in the business. How to celebrate? With a sale, of course.
Saturday is the official big day, and your local Best Buy will have exclusive in-store price drops. But online discounts are live now on some of our favorite products, and here are four of the most enticing.
Apple AirPods Pro 3 Deal
Getting Apple products at real deep discounts isn’t something that happens often, so a 24% price cut on the exceptional AirPods Pro 3 is worth throwing a party over. Best Buy has a bunch of Apple stuff on sale, but this offer is by far the most eye-catching. We gave these comfortable and powerful earbuds an ultra-rare “Exemplary” rating as well as an Editors’ Choice award in our review, with audio expert Eric Zeman raving that they “pack recalculated AI-based smarts and support features like hearing protection, live language translation, heart rate monitoring, and fitness tracking,” in addition to category-leading audio quality and active noise cancellation.
Although visually the AirPods Pro 3 look seemingly identical to the last generation, inside the shell big changes have happened. Custom high-excursion drivers with custom high dynamic range amplifiers deliver rich, well-rounded sound, and Apple’s custom H2 chip provides seamless connection to paired devices. Better battery life and longer Find My range are just the icing on the cake. If you use other Apple products, these are the best earbuds on the market, full stop.
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Samsung 990 Pro 2TB Internal SSD Deal
Storage Wars isn’t just a TV show, but a description of how SSD prices have been exploding over the last year or so. Building a new battle station can really put a hurting on your wallet, so we’re happy to say that Best Buy is delivering some pretty impressive component price drops as part of their 60th anniversary sale. The Samsung 990 Pro is one of the better PCIe drives on the market, putting out solid benchmarking results in our review and earning an “Excellent” rating in the process. With great raw speed, efficient cooling, and hardware-based encryption, it checks all the boxes at a very competitive price.
Samsung keeping manufacturing control over its V-NAND flash memory and controller lets the company innovate faster than brands that rely on resellers, and the custom nickel-coated controller is the first one on the market to use 8-nanometer architecture, improving power efficiency by 50% from the last model. Durability is also a strong point, with the drive warrantied for five years or 1200 terabytes, whichever you hit first.
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Dyson V15 Detect Vacuum Deal
Best Buy also does heavy trade in home appliances, and right now you can snag a huge discount on a powerful Dyson vacuum that’ll keep your floors clean all year round. We gave a glowing review to the V15 Detect, praising its numerous attachments and reliably strong suction, but noting that the $850 sticker price was a lot to swallow, even for a cleaning machine this good. Best Buy obviously heard our laments and decided to make things right, slicing a whopping $350 off and putting it in competition with other vacuums that it easily outclasses.
With a Dyson Hyperdymium motor that pumps out up to 230 air watts of suction, the V15 Detect has the muscle to pick up all kinds of dirt and debris, and the patented five-stage filtration system grabs 99.99% of the dust in the process. The robust attachments make for optimal cleaning on different surfaces and situations, including tight corners, hard floors, and delicate fabrics. The green laser diode on the vacuum’s tip lets you play CSI as you hunt down stray dirt you can’t see with the naked eye.
Recommended by Our Editors
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HP OmniBook X Flip 2-in-1 Laptop Deal
HP’s OmniBook X Flip is a capable midrange laptop with some nice features, but at full retail price there are options we’d typically prefer. When Best Buy gets out the katana of savings and amputates $450 off the cost, though, it becomes one of the best convertibles in its price bracket. In our review of the 14-inch model, we noted that the OmniBook X Flip’s screen was bright and responsive, build quality felt stable and solid in the hand, and overall productivity performance was good. Connectivity is also solid, with Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and plenty of ports.
The biggest downside to this portable is that it weighs a bit too much to use comfortably in tablet mode for long periods of time, but if you don’t mind a wrist work-out that shouldn’t deter you. At $750, it clears almost every laptop in this price range, especially convertibles. HP’s new AI Companion app jumps on board the trend with live translation and captioning, image and text generation, and more.
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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.
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