Enlarge / Microsoft's Surface Pro 8. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Black Friday laptop deals are as American as pumpkin pie. But tracking down worthwhile options can be tricky. Each model has variants, each of those variants have configurations with too many sound-alike model numbers (thank you, Intel), and many of the model names are unmemorable names. We spend a lot of time looking at laptops and writing about them at Ars, so we've gone through the deals and highlighted the most noteworthy options, based on the laptops we've reviewed and know.