LIVE: Amazon Black Friday – I pick the 28 best early deals for creatives

Apple Watch SE 2 comes with a fitness and sleep tracker, a heart rate monitor, emergency SOS, Apple Pay, and is water-resistant to 50 meters. You can sync it with any iPhone from iPhone XS and up running iOS 17 or later for and use it to control music, calls, messages and more.

AirTags can be attached to stuff you don't want to lose, and tracked via Bluetooth. This is a pack of four, so you can put one in your luggage, one on your keys, wallet and even attach one to your child when you're visiting busy places. They connect to the Find My app with one tap.

The brand-new M4 chip brings Apple Intelligence and impressive performance to the MacBook Air, which has a 13-inch screen, is ultra-portable and still has zippy speeds. It's more than good enough for most creative workflows, but not for power users.

This new iPad is perfect for most people – especially creatives with a light-ish workflow, who want a beautiful screen and Apple Pencil pro support. The M3 chip offers enough power for digital artists and photo editors, and if you're working in short-form video you'll be able to whip up content for social media.

This may be meant as a gaming laptop, but its combination of some of the best components currently out there means it’s a creator’s dream too. It's going to be useful for a lot of things, from 3D rendering and effects-heavy video-editing all day to a spot of Doom: The Dark Ages when the doors have closed. And at this price, it's almost available to normal mortal humans too.

Satechi make some of the finest docks and USB hubs around, and this 11-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 piece will be a godsend to port-deprived MacBook users in particular. With four Thunderbolt 4 ports and 3 USB-A ports, on top of a Gigabit Ethernet port and an SD card reader, it's perfect for creators who need to plug a lot of things in at once. And it's a third off now.

The Snapdragon-powered Surface Pro bridges the divide between laptop and tablet more effectively than almost any other 2-in-1 on the market. It's a competent photo-editing machine and easily converts to a tablet for late-night streaming or on-the-go artworking.

The lowest price yet for this, the successor to Dell's budget-friendly Inspiron range. We tested the 2-in-1 version and liked it rather a lot. This one isn't quite as flexible, but otherwise has pretty much the same internals.

Second on our list of the best monitors for graphic artists, we love this monitor for its affordability. But even at this price point, it professional-grade performance. This shows in our tests, which highlight the crisp 4K resolution to the 99% sRGB coverage.

This is our favourite ultrawide monitor for creatives, and it's on a limited time deal in the early Black Friday deals fest. It has brilliant colour accuracy, high resolution and everything you'd expect from a premium OLED screen. It's a beast but if you've got space, we recommend taking the plunge.

Overview: If you're looking for a new 3D printer, this model from Anycubic has a great discount over at Amazon, and is almost pretty much a Temu clone of the popular Bambu Lab X1C (which is more premium-priced).

3D scanners certainly aren't cheap (especially for the Pro-tier models), but Creality has a Black Friday sale live right now that is literally slashing thousands of dollars off its premium scanners.

The Cricut Joy Xtra can be had for $149 on its own over at Amazon, or you can opt for the digital version bundle (above) for the exact same price, which includes a digital library of 30 images.

This 2-in-1 laser engraving machine from xTool is the world's first 2W infrared + 10W diode laser cutter and engraver. It can cut as deep as 10mm wood, 8mm basswood, and 6mm acrylic, and comes pre-assembled with a fully enclosed cover and high-speed preview function, enabling accurate positioning in just 5 seconds. 

This heat press machine from Cricut used to be primarily aimed at businesses, but with 75% off, it's now affordable for home crafters and hobbyists as well.

Looking to buy a 3D printer? If you can wait just a little bit longer, then this preorder deal on the Snapmaker U1 will be 100% worth it.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 is an Android powerhouse that’s a dead-ringer for the iPad Pro when it comes to digital art. With its super-smooth 120Hz AMOLED display, ultra-low latency S Pen, and desktop-style DeX mode, it offers creatives pro-level precision without locking you into Apple’s ecosystem. It’s the Android alternative every artist’s been waiting for, at a price that suddenly feels right. Read more in my best tablets with a stylus round-up.

The Huion Kamvas Pro 24 4K is a pro-grade 23.8-inch pen display with ultra-sharp 4K resolution, full-laminated anti-glare glass, and an 8,192-level tilt-sensitive pen. Covering 140% sRGB, it delivers Wacom-level colour fidelity without the Pro-series price. Why is it reduced? Huion just released a Gen 3 upgrade, but this 2024 model remains a well-specced pen display. Read our Huion Kamvas Pro 24 4K review.

The new XPPen Artist Ultra 16 4K OLED is a serious rival to Wacom. With a 15.6-inch 4K OLED display, sub-1ms latency, a 99% Adobe RGB colour gamut, dual 16K-pressure pens, and a gesture-aware X-Touch pad, this provides pro artists with silky-smooth, high-fidelity control. I've been testing the Artist Ultra 16 for weeks, and it's a beautiful pen display that crams in some of the best tech right now.

This ergonomic chair offers pretty good adjustable lumbar support, a breathable mesh backrest, and several adjustment points. Its massive bulk deals are perfect for studios and agencies, but there's $200 off for individuals.

I love this chair – it's one of the few that I've given a perfect 5 star review to. It's chic, works incredibly well, and is incredibly durable and comfortable. $50 off may not seem like a lot, but I'd snap it up (if I didn't already own one!)

I'm breaking the rules a bit here – this deal isn't from Amazon, it's directly from Secretlab. But again, this is one of the few chairs I've given 5 stars to, and the only gaming chair to receive a perfect score. I love it. And you probably will too.

I loved this leather chair when I first reviewed it, a couple of years ago. It's very comfy, very leather, and very executive. It's also pretty expensive, so be aware that you are paying for that Italian leather here. Still, $140 off isn't nothing.

We love this coffee maker for its simplicity, and the fact it comes in many fun colours. It offers five sizes of coffee cup, and you can make single or double espressos – plus iced coffee! This deal just got $10 better than earlier in the week.

If you love drip coffee, this is an excellent machine that looks great. The glass carafe seals in the flavour, and it has a 'PureFlavor' system that makes coffee at exactly the right brewing time. This means the flavour is perfect every time. This is an amazing discount even $10 better than earlier in the week.

This is a fun, well-designed little maker than offers a single serve of coffee. It comes in a variety of colours, and brews very decent coffee via a pod. It's perfect for the office, or travel.

The stunningParker Jotter Stainless‑Steel Ballpoint Pen has a solid stainless-steel barrel, high-shine trims, and Parker’s signature arrow clip. It uses a retractable “click” mechanism and comes fitted with a QuinkFlow ballpoint refill (0.7 mm medium or 0.5 mm fine). A 50% discount is marvellous, and the perfect time to buy.

The Ddaowanx Gel Pens (6-pack) feature a 0.5 mm fine point, quick-dry black gel ink, and a retractable design with clip. The barrel combines alloy steel and plastic, includes a soft-grip section, and is sized at approx. 2.36″ × 0.55″ × 5.9″.