Electronic retailers such as Best-Buy and Amazon got an early start this Black Friday, offering better deals than Apple’s Black Friday discounts. Amazon is offering up to $150 off Apple computers such as the 1.60GHz 11″ MacBook Air 64GB, for example, and Best Buy also has their share of Apple products on sale, including the iMac, iPad 2 and Apple TV. You’ve got just a couple hours left before Black Friday 2011 has passed you by, so get those orders in now to get significant savings on Apple products.

We’ve seen a few leaks this week on Apple’s annual one-day-only Black Friday sales event. The savings on Apple products were accurately slight, but as in years past, Apple is offering significant savings on compatible third-party products. Save over $100 on Bowers & Wilkins speaker docks and various laptop bags, and you can get fun accessories like the Parrot AR.Drone for under $250.00.

Are you out battling the mass of humanity? Stuck eating drab Chinese food at a mall food court again? No need for that when there are plenty of iDevice app and accessory deals to be found from the convenience of your own home. We continue to roundup the online sales right here, most of which carry through the weekend. If you missed that big box store special this morning, make up for it online.

Black Friday is upon us. If you’re like me, and I certainly hope you’re not, you’re not out shopping today, you’re at work pretending to get stuff done while following your hockey team’s score. But you still have shopping to do, so why not get it done online? To help, we’ve rounded up the Macintosh software and hardware Black Friday deals right here, and will continue to update them as last-minute specials are announced between now and Cyber Monday.

Black Friday is tomorrow, and Apple will be joining the big retailers for a Black Friday sale extravaganza. According to reports, Apple will be offering great deals and big discounts on products ranging from iMacs, MacBook Air / MacBook Pro, iPod nano / iPod touch to iPads. To give you an idea of what Apple has in store for this year’s Black Friday sales event, we’re looking at $101 off on Macs, iMacs, the MacBook Air, and the MacBook Pros; $41-$61 off on a new iPad 2; $11 off on a 16GB and 32GB iPod nano, and $21-$41 off on an iPod touch.

Black Friday starts now for iPhone and iPad gamers. SEGA has announced an early bird sale that sees 13 of their more popular iPhone, iPad and iPod touch titles reduced to as little as $0.99 each. The sale lasts until Cyber Monday, November 28th, and includes names such as Sonic the Hedgehog (three installments) and Super Monkey Mall, saving gamers up to 80% per title.

Tonight, Apple started placing banners in their online stores around the world depicting an image with the date of Nov 25th. The banners clearly inform us that this “special one-day Apple shopping event” is this upcoming Friday, November 25. Apple has not yet revealed any pricing for this year’s Black Friday sale, but we can expect to see discounts around 20 to 40 percent on all Apple products.

Black Friday is rapidly approaching, but you don’t have to wait for the deals to roll around. You need go no further than the local Target for evidence of that, as company has already started offering incentives to give them your hard-earned cash in exchange for some of the best Apple products. You can get deals on the iPod touch and iPod shuffle, along with some of the cooler iOS device accessories.

Considering the popularity of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, it’s not surprising that the number of app and iDevice accessory Black Friday deals this year is somewhat staggering…especially the free stuff. Companies such as SEGA, Chillingo, Namco, Navigo, GelaSkins, Twelve South, Fusion of Ideas, SkinIt and more are ready with app and accessory specials, some of which are free, but will disappear after Friday, November 26.

Black Friday is upon us, and so are the deals. Mac developers are pulling out all the stops this year, offering software and accessories at savings of up to 90%. Microsoft, GelaSkins, OWC, Steam and many more may not have doors to bust, but do you really want to get up at 3:00 a.m. to shop at WalMart? I didn’t think so. Check out these deals on games, productivity software and more, and get your Black Friday shopping done before noon.