The 5 Best Tech Deals For This 3-Day Weekend That You Won’t Want to Miss

We’re not going to be silly enough to try to tie the world-changing work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to tech shopping. Just take a moment to think about how you can dedicate yourself to justice and equality this long weekend, and then click through for five of the absolute best deals we found all week. We’ve got dramatic price drops on a top-notch Intel Alder Lake CPU, an ultra-budget Amazon tablet, noise-cancelling earbuds and much more.

Boasting a bright and sharp OLED screen, this is a very solid laptop when you factor in the 40% discount courtesy of Best Buy. In our review of the ZenBook 14, we praised its lightweight and compact build, long battery life and responsive performance. Internally, it’s a solid midrange setup with Intel Evo-certified architecture including the AI-focused Core Ultra 5 processor. Although the 8GB of RAM and 512GB SSD are somewhat skimpy, they’re both a breeze to upgrade, and with the $350 you save on this offer you’ll have enough left over to do whatever you want.

We’d expect the streaming universe to get even more complicated in 2025, as services merge, fold and change names. If you want a simple way to keep all your logins consistent across multiple devices, there’s no cheaper way to do it than with the Roku Express, especially if you don’t care about resolutions higher than 1080p. In our review, we called the Express “one of the least expensive big-name media streamers you can buy,” praising its sizable app selection, support for live TV broadcasts, and super-simple installation. Grabbing one for under twenty bucks is a steal.

In our review of the Jabra Elite 10 earbuds, we gave equal praise to their solid sound quality and their durable, waterproof construction, making them a great pick for runners and anybody else interested in wireless audio on the go. With excellent active noise cancellation and support for cool features like spatial head-tracking audio and Dolby Atmos, as well as a robust in-app equalizer, they’re competitive with the high-end earbuds from Apple and Sony. Taking a hundred bucks off the price makes them an extremely attractive alternative.

Amazon’s Fire tablets aren’t designed to push the envelope when it comes to performance. They’re optimized to be low-priced content delivery mechanisms that give you access to the company’s massive digital storefront with as little friction as possible, and they do a great job of it. In our review of the 2022 Fire 7, we lauded key features like improved battery life, expandable storage and support for Alexa voice commands as big improvements over the previous model. This is a lightweight and hassle-free slate for keeping yourself or your kids entertained, and at $45 it’s a steal.

Using the winter months to build a new gaming PC? You can snag a high-end Intel processor for two hundred bucks off retail right now, and that’s a great place to start. The potent i9-14900KF is a refresh of the Raptor Lake architecture designed to squeeze even more juice. In our review, we had good things to say about the 6GHz max clock speed, which is extremely impressive, as well as the field-leading single-core performance. It’s power-hungry and runs hot, so make sure your motherboard and cooling system can handle it, but if you want a processor that won’t stumble on any game you throw at it, this is the deal for you.

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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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