Just have a price in mind and see if whatever parts you want go down on either day. Keep an eye open for good deals next week. “Retailers have focused their marketing efforts on Black Friday and pre-Black Friday sales out of the fear that sitting on the sidelines until Cyber Monday means finding consumers who’ve already spent their Christmas budgets a week earlier,” says Matthew Ong, Senior Analyst for NerdWallet. Ive actually found that some of the better computer deals seem to drop right now, in the lead up to BF, and then sometimes they repeat on BF / CM. That’s a negligible difference, and shows how consumers have turned to online shopping for Black Friday instead of waiting until the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend.īecause everyone now shops all weekend on their fancy high-speed Internet connections, Cyber Monday is too late for retailers. Storage is important, especially if you use a computer for work, school and. Black Friday and Cyber Monday, celebrated respectively on the last Friday of November and the following Monday, are two days with some of the best deals of the year to buy all kinds of goods. “Cyber Monday typically edges out Black Friday by maybe a percent or two,” Carmichael says. Apple MacBook Air M1 2020 (512GB): 1,099. In fact, Philip Carmichael, owner of, said, at this point, the traffic on his site is practically equal on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday, on the other hand, is the awkward solution to a problem that no longer exists. Despite Black Friday’s increasing irrelevancy, the reason for its continued presence makes sense-people still have the day after Thanksgiving off, and many of them choose to go shopping. But Internet speeds have greatly improved since 2005.