Did Best Buy just beat Prime Day with this huge $500 MacBook Pro discount?

Best Buy Black Friday in July pre Prime Day MacBook Pro deal

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Amazon Prime Day starts at midnight, and we were counting down, ready to seek out the best Prime Day MacBook Deals. But Best Buy has just jumped in first with its Black Friday in July sale, and there's a huge $500 off the older M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14, reducing the price to just $1,399.

This is the previous-gen MacBook released in late 2023. It was superseded by the newer M4 model in November, but the jump between generations of Apple chips is fairly iterative, as we found in our own tests, and the M4 doesn't bring anything new to the table in terms of design.

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Deals on previous-gen MacBooks are becoming rarer since there doesn't tend to be so much excess stock these days, so this is a good chance to save a bucket on a Pro series Apple laptop.

We think this remains a solid choice for creatives, including photographers and videographers, and this price matches the lowest we've seen to date on this model.

Features: 11-Core M3 Pro chip: 14-Core GPU + 16-Core Neural Engine, 18GB unified RAM, 512GB SSD, 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR Screen, 1 x HDMI, 3 x Thunderbolt 4

Release date: November 2023

At the other extreme, Amazon has a saving of over $400 on Apple's latest and greatest, the M4 Max-chipped Macbook Pro 16. This is the option to go for if you're doing 3D rendering, complex video editing or running heavy AI models locally.

Features: 11-Core M3 Pro chip: 40-Core GPU + 16-Core Neural Engine, 48GB unified RAM, 1TB SSD, 16.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR Screen, 1 x HDMI, 3 x Thunderbolt 4, SDXC slot

Release date: November 2024

Below, you can find the best deals and lowest prices in your region on the latest range of MacBooks. Is your old machine dead? See our why is my MacBook Pro screen black piece

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Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.

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