Dealmaster: The Black Friday tech deals that might actually be worth buying [Updated]

Enlarge / Get ready for lots of ads like this. (credit: Best Buy)

Update (9/19/2017 11:20 AM ET): Updated to mark various deals that have gone live since this article's publication.

Original post: Brace yourself for Walmart fights and snarky tweets about capitalism, because Black Friday is nearly here. Once again, the day after Thanksgiving-and in many cases the days before that-will see retailers across the country pushing an avalanche of sales to the gift-needy public.

And once again, many of those "discounts" won't be discounts at all. Year after year, the corporate holiday isn't quite the deals bonanza it proclaims to be. Many of the devices on sale either won't be priced significantly lower than they are at other points in the year or just won't be worth buying to begin with.

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