This year's Black Friday Mac software deals include savings of over $300 on Office 2008 for Mac, 78% off student editions of Creative Suite 4.0, $30 off Parallels 5.0 and Fusion 3.0, $40 off Photoshop Elements 4.0, and $50 off QuickBooks 2010.
Adobe Creative Suite 4.0
Amazon.com is offering 78% off CS4 Design Premium Student Edition (), CS4 Design Standard Student Edition (), and CS4 Web Premium Student Edition ().
Adobe Creative Suite 4.0
Adobe has slashed the price of Photoshop Elements 8 by $40, bringing it down to after instant and mail-in rebates. Free shipping included.
Mac Virtualization Software
Parallels has knocked the price of Parallels Desktop 5.0 direct downloads, while VMware is offering direct downloads of Fusion 3.0 with coupon code dsktp20sale.
For physical retail copies of the Mac virtualization software, Amazon has the lowest price on Parallels 5.0 at while MacMall has the lowest price on Fusion 3.0 at .
Mac Virtualization Software
Product | Retail | Direct Download | Amazon | MacMall | Buy.com | MacConnection | Discount |
| Mac Virtualization Software | |||||||
| Parallels Desktop 5.0 | $79.95 | Sold Out | $35.46 | ||||
| VMware Fusion 3.0 | $79.95 | N/A | $29.96 | ||||
Office 2008 for Mac
Price drops on the various versions of Office 2008 for Mac range from $80 to $328.96. B&H has Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition for , Amazon has the standard edition for , Microsoft has the Business Edition for , and Amazon has the Special Media Edition for . Savings can be seen in the price comparison chart, below.
Microsoft Office
Product | Retail | Microsoft | Amazon | MacMall | B&H | MacConnection | Discount |
| Office 2008 for Mac | |||||||
| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | $149.95 | $80.00 | |||||
| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac | $399.95 | N/A | N/A | N/A | $199.97 | ||
| Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Business Edition | $399.95 | $150.00 | |||||
| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition | $499.95 | N/A | $328.96 | ||||
QuickBooks 2010 for Mac
Intuit has cut the price of direct downloads of its new QuickBooks 2010 accounting software for Mac to while Amazon has knocked the cost of the retail version down to . MacMall is a few bucks cheaper at .