SAVE $200: As of Sept. 22, the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is on sale for $799 at Amazon, down from its list price of $999. That’s a discount of 20% and a new all-time-low price.
We’re constantly on the lookout for the best laptops you can buy, and a good sale can often tip the scales. We recently updated our guide to the best MacBooks, naming the M4 MacBook Air the best for students, but with one major caveat: if it ever dropped to $799, it would also become our top budget pick. Well, today’s that day.
As of Sept. 22, the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is on sale for $799 at Amazon, down from its list price of $999. That’s a discount of 20% and a new all-time-low price.
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This model is built around Apple’s new M4 chip, which makes everything from browsing to video editing feel incredibly fast and fluid. It’s also specifically designed to handle Apple Intelligence and can last up to 18 hours on a single charge.
While this 13-inch version has an 8-core GPU (a slight step down from the 10-core version in the 15-inch model), it’s more than enough power for the browsing, emailing, and word processing that most people do every day. Plus, you still get up to 18 hours of battery life on a single charge.
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To get the price this low, there are a couple of things to keep in mind. The 256GB of storage on this base model is a bit small, so you may need an external hard drive down the line. The sound system also has four speakers instead of the six found in the 15-inch model, but our sister site PCMag confirms it still produces “decent sound.” For a brand-new M4 machine under $800, those are trade-offs we’d happily make.
