MacBook Air M1 is just $949 on Amazon right now

MacBook Air M1 is just $949 on Amazon correct now

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Now that Presidents Solar day sales are starting to ramp upward, we're seeing a host of new deals on our favorite tech. Ane of today'due south all-time deals comes courtesy of Amazon.

Currently, Amazon has the rarely discounted Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) on sale for $949.99. That'due south $49 off and i of the best Apple deals we've seen this yr. Past comparison, this same config hit $899 briefly on Cyber Mon (a price we're non likely to see soon).

The new MacBook Air features a 13-inch ii,560 x 1600-pixel Retina brandish, 8GB of RAM, Apple tree'southward 8-cadre M1 CPU, and a 256GB SSD. Despite being the base of operations configuration, this MacBook packs the same CPU equally the pricier MacBook Pro M1 and offers enough horsepower for just virtually anything yous throw its way.

In our MacBook Air M1 review, nosotros gave this model a near-perfect score for its outstanding performance, comfy keyboard blueprint, high-resolution webcam, and surprisingly strong battery life. The Air scored v,962 on the Geekbench five.1 (Intel) multicore examination, which was practically in a dead-heat with the five,925 from the M1 MacBook Pro. It also soundly beat the five,084 from the ZenBook 13 and the 5,319 from the XPS 13 (both tested with the Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU and 16GB of RAM), on the comparable Geekbench 5.2 test.

MacBook deals this adept are bound to sell out fast, so go this bargain while you can.

As deals editor at Tom's Guide, Louis is constantly looking for ways to avert paying full price for the latest gadgets. With over 10 years of deals-hunting feel, Louis price checks confronting multiple retailers and searches high and depression for the all-time deals to bring readers. A built-in-and-bred New Yorker, Louis is besides an avid swimmer and marathoner. His work has appeared on Gizmodo, CNET, and Time Out New York.