I Found 5 Incredible Tech Deals for Your Weekend Shopping Spree on Earbuds, Laptops, Tablets, and More

Friday is a great day for a number of reasons, but I wake up excited because I know I can put together my weekend deals roundup, letting me sift through all the incredible offers I’ve seen to bring you the five absolute best. This one’s a scorcher, with one of the biggest deals ever seen on a current-generation iPad, a role-playing game that’ll eat up the rest of your summer, and a juiced-up laptop with 64GB of RAM for cheap. Let’s go!

In our review of the Beats Studio Buds+ headphones, we said they delivered some of the best active noise cancellation on the market for under $200. Rewind that back, because with this massive 41% price drop at Amazon, that becomes “under $100.” That’s a ridiculously good price for these stylish and powerful earbuds, featuring bass-forward sound that satisfies, one-touch pairing and handoff for iOS devices, and intuitive on-ear push-button controls. Battery life is around nine hours per charge without ANC, and the case holds an additional 27 hours of play time.

We haven’t had a chance to sit down with the ThinkPad E16 Gen 2 yet, but we reviewed the first-generation take on this business laptop and loved it, giving it an “Excellent” rating for that Lenovo build quality and keyboard feel we know and love, combined with a solid array of ports and good performance. This build is perfect for music producers, video editors and other creatives, with a massive 64GB of DDR5 RAM letting you handle huge files with relative ease, and 2TB of onboard storage rounding it out. While the Core Ultra 5 processor may not seem as impressive, it tests surprisingly well. A 39% discount is tremendous.

If your TV setup is lacking onboard streaming as well as sound quality, the Fire TV Cube can solve both those problems at once for a 36% discount. In our review of the media streamer, we gave it an Editors’ Choice award, with praise going to its solid sound quality, simple setup and ability to be used as a voice-activated smart speaker without requiring a remote. This latest iteration features some nice improvements, including the addition of a HDMI jack for pass-through video from your game consoles or other devices, and support for Wi-Fi 6E for even faster streaming from all your favorite services.

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We see minor discounts on Apple products all the time, usually hovering around 10%. That’s fine, but not enough to score a spot in this roundup. A full 25% price cut on the incredible iPad Air M3, though? Grab this before it gets away. We gave an Editors’ Choice award to this incredible ultraportable tablet in our review, noting that although the form factor was mostly unchanged over the last generation, the processor upgrade made it even better for creativity, work, gaming and more. This is the model with the lowest internal storage, but it’s still a steal at $450.

One of the absolute best role-playing games of recent years, Metaphor: ReFantazio is the latest game from Atlus, creators of the legendary Persona series, and was helmed by director Katsura Hashino. If you dig those games, you’ll love this one, as it combines brilliant and difficult turn-based battles built around exploiting enemy weaknesses with a deep and psychological story, and social simulation aspects that have you building bonds with party members and NPCs to influence an election. If you still have gaming time left unaccounted for this summer, a 69% discount on Metaphor: ReFantazio will fill it up.

Thirsty for even more savings? Head over to the oasis that is the PCMag Deals Page.

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K. Thor Jensen is a writer and cartoonist living in the Pacific Northwest. He has contributed to dozens of prestigious outlets, including PCMag, Tested, Clickhole, and Newsweek. His second graphic novel, Cloud Stories, was released in 2017.

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