But it's Prime Day, and that's a time for exceptions to this pattern. I've been checking prices on all my favorite laptops, and there's one clear winner for Prime Day this year: the Surface Laptop. Despite suffering official price hikes earlier this year,

Below, I've detailed the 14 top Black Friday laptop deals I've scouted so far. I've only picked the models that I'd happily add to my own cart if I was in the market for a new PC — they've all been tested and vetted by the Mashable team.

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Apple lifted the price of Macs and iPads in the face of increased memory and storage prices. We’ve heard for weeks that Apple would soon be raising prices. Even before that, it seemed inevitable that the company would have to account for higher memory and storage prices,