30 Best Prime Day Deals From Best Buy’s Black Friday in July Sale

It’s Amazon Prime Day, but Best Buy, Target, and Walmart have their own competing sales right now. Best Buy annoyingly calls it the ‘Black Friday in July’ sales event, and while you don’t need any kind of membership to enjoy these deals, you can get access to exclusive discounts if you subscribe to the retailer’s My Best Buy Plus and My Best Buy Total plans.

Updated July 12: We added many new deals, including the RevAir Reverse-Air Dryer and Microsoft Surface Pro 7. We also updated links and prices throughout.

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The 3rd generation of the iPhone SE (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is already our pick for best iPhone bang for your buck. It has a 4.7-inch LCD screen with a physical home button, Touch ID, and wireless charging. The A15 Bionic processor is the same one that’s in the iPhone 13 so you’re getting a bit of a powerhouse from a budget phone. Unfortunately, this deal is only for the Midnight color variation, but you’ll probably want to put it in a case anyway.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch5 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is our favorite smartwatch for Android phone users. You can use it to reply to your texts and follow turn-by-turn navigation in Google Maps, or track sleep and heart rate. The usual spate of fitness tracking features is present, though some are locked exclusively to Samsung phone owners, like the electrocardiogram.

If you need a portable little laptop, we like the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 (8/10, WIRED Recommends). It feels like a $1,000 laptop, made from aluminum and polycarbonate resin, so it’s not as fragile as typical plastic. But for the price, the 1080p screen isn’t great, and you lose out on a backlit keyboard and battery life—we got about seven hours out of it.

The Surface Pro 9 is our top pick for 2-in-1 laptop from Microsoft. The kickstand keyboard and cover is still an excellent design that lets you treat the tablet like it’s a laptop, but drops the pretense when you just need a convenient slab. This configuration comes with an Intel Evo i5 processor, 8 gigabytes of memory, and a 256 gigabyte SSD. We’ve seen this model a little bit cheaper in the past, so it’s not the best deal ever, but it’s still a solid option on one of our favorite Surfaces.

We normally recommend the more powerful Surface Pro 9, but when the Pro 7 is on this steep of a discount, our ears perk up. This model comes with an Intel Core i3 processor, 8 gigabytes of memory, and a 128 gigabyte SSD. It even comes with a black Type Cover keyboard-slash-case. It’s not as powerful as newer models, but it does get better battery life first, so that’s nice.

Apple’s new Macbooks running on its own silicon have been powerhouses, and this Macbook Pro is no exception. It comes with 16 gigabytes of memory and a 512 gigabyte SSD, but the star is the M2 Pro processor. We used this laptop to edit RED Raw video footage, which is one of the heaviest tasks we could throw at it, with no problems. The 16-inch model is also on sale starting at $2,299 with the same specs.

This is the first of Apple’s Macbooks that run on the company’s new M processors. This Macbook Air (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is a few years old by now, but it’s still WIRED reviewer Eric Ravenscraft’s daily driver. It’s fast, light, and can make quick work of simple office tasks. It can even handle some light video editing if the need arises, but if you need more power, spring for one of the newer, beefier options.

The 13-inch Macbook Pro is an odd duck for an Apple laptop. It’s got the speedy new M2 processor and great battery life, but it also comes with the divisive Touch Bar. We mainly recommend this laptop if the Touch Bar is a benefit to you, but if not, you can save yourself some money with a Macbook Air.

The Nest Video Doorbell is our runner-up pick in our Best Video Doorbells guide because it’s more expensive than our top pick in the base price and monthly cost—if you want 30-day video history and smart alerts, a Nest Aware subscription costs $6 per month. Still, it’s a great doorbell, and a charge lasted more than a month. If you already use a bunch of other Google products, like the Nest Cam and Nest Hub below, it’s nice to have everything in one app.

The Nest Cam looks modern and can easily blend in with your decor. It’s one of our favorite indoor security cameras. It has clear, 1080p video quality, two-way audio, and two-factor authentication. Alerts are accurate, too, detecting people, animals, or vehicles. As with most Nest products, you really need a Nest Aware subscription to get the most out of it. Without that, you…