If you've been waiting all year to buy a new laptop, your patience has paid off. The holiday shopping season is here, and that means some of the best savings on top-rated models.

What's better than spending time off during the holiday playing new video games? Two things. Not having to wait until and not having to pay top prices for the best hardware out there!

Save up to $400 on 2-in-1 laptops on sale ahead of Black Friday.

The official Dell site has launched a comprehensive early Black Friday sale this week, including massive discounts of up to $900 off on everything from super cheap laptops to high-end gaming PCs. If you're on the hunt for deals well ahead of Black Friday, then Dell's sale offers some of the lowest prices I've seen all year.

One of the most notable deals is the 15.6-inch HP Victus gaming laptop, which part of Best Buy's first round of limited-time doorbuster deals. The laptop is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5-7535HS processor,

Amazon has it on sale for just $749 ahead of Black Friday, or $250 off its $999 MSRP. That's a 25% savings and a new record-low, matching the cheapest price the 8GB version saw. (The same deal was live at Best Buy for the paid tiers of its membership program on Thursday, Nov. 14; it'll be open to everyone there on Friday, Nov. 15.)

I've picked through all the early Amazon Black Friday deals to pick out the biggest savings on laptops for different needs, from general home use to options for power users who ne