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Best Buy Unveils Black Friday 'Doorbuster' and Online Deals

 & Chloe Albanesius Executive Editor, News

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Best Buy has officially announced some of its Black Friday doorbuster deals, as well as several Thanksgiving Day discounts that will be available online.

Make sure you get in a nap after the turkey and stuffing because Best Buy's doorbuster sales begin at midnight local time on Friday, Nov. 25 with deals on TVs, laptops, and Blu-ray players; stores in Massachusetts open at 1am. The circular said buyers will need tickets in order to claim the items, so you'll likely have to get in line well before midnight. Each Best Buy store will have 10 of each item and customers are limited to one each.

What can you expect? A 42-inch Sharp 1080 LCD HDTV will be $199.99. It is currently listed for $499.99.

A 15.6-inch Samsung laptop, meanwhile, will be $299.99, down from $999.99. The device runs an Intel Pentium processor, has 4GB of memory, and a 320GB hard drive.

If you're in the market for a tablet, meanwhile, the 10.1-inch Asus Transformer, which is normally $399.99, will be $249.99. It has 16GB of storage and runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb.

On the Blu-ray front, a Toshiba Smart Blu-ray player will be $39.99, a $40 savings.

Best Buy will also offer a free HTC Thunderbolt from Verizon Wireless with a two-year contract, a $100 savings, though that deal will also be available online on Thanksgiving Day.

In terms of online-only deals on Thursday, Best Buy has promised low prices on several items, including a 32-inch Dynex 720p HDTV, a 15.6-inch Gateway laptop wtih 320GB hard drive, the Dell Streak 7 tablet, a Dell desktop with 18.5-inch widescreen LCD HD monitor, a FujiFilm FinePix 16-megapixel camera, and Nintendo Wii console with the new Super Mario Bros. Wii game. Pricing will be announced shortly.

There are also deals that will be available online on Thanksgiving and in stores on Black Friday. A 55-inch Samsung 1080p HDTV will be $1,000, a $99 discount. A 15.6-inch Lenovo laptop will be $179.99, down from $999.99. A 17.3-inch Toshiba will be $349.99, also down from $999.99. The new Nook Simple Touch will also be $79.99, a $20 discount, among other things.

Some additional Best Buy Black Friday deals leaked last week. For more, check out the Black Friday deals on tap from Gamestop, Kmart, Sears, Target, and Toys'R'Us as well as Amazon, Walmart, OfficeMax, Staples, and Costco, among others. Also check out the 19 Pre-Black Friday Deals You Can't Afford to Miss slideshow below.

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