Hurry! MacBook Air M1 is $100 off at Amazon now

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The M1 MacBook Air is the least-expensive MacBook you tin buy. If you're on a budget, this is the MacBook we recommend and now thanks to Amazon, information technology'due south one of the best Apple deals around.

For a express fourth dimension, you lot can get the Apple MacBook Air M1 on auction for $899 at Amazon. That's $100 off and the lowest price we've seen for this Editor's Choice laptop this month. If you demand more storage, the 512GB model is on auction for $1,149 at Amazon ($100 off).

The latest MacBook Air features a 13-inch two,560 ten 1600-pixel Retina display, 8GB of RAM, Apple'due south 8-core M1 CPU, and a 256GB SSD — and it's all packed in a slim 2.8-pound chassis that's more than portable than the MacBook Pro.

In our MacBook Air M1 review, we gave this model a virtually-perfect score thanks to its outstanding performance, comfortable keyboard pattern, Hard disk drive webcam, and very strong battery life. We were as well impressed with the True Tone engineering science, which allows the display to automatically accommodate to your environment, thus beingness easy on the eyes.

Although we weren't fans of its relatively thick bezels and lack of additional ports, the MacBook Air 2020 is nonetheless one of the best laptops correct now. In fact, we went equally far as stating that "the MacBook Air M1 has the speed and battery life to beat the best PCs."

The powerful M1 fleck allowed the Air to score 5,962 on the Geekbench 5.1 (Intel) multicore test, which was practically in a dead-heat with the five,925 from the M1 MacBook Pro. Information technology too soundly beat out the 5,084 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.

Overall, considering that Apple'southward laptops rarely get on sale, this deal is an absolute bargain. And in case you wanted to browse through other discounts on Apple laptops, make sure to bank check out our MacBook deals coverage for more sales.

Every bit deals editor at Tom's Guide, Louis is constantly looking for means to avoid paying full price for the latest gadgets. With over 10 years of deals-hunting experience, Louis price checks confronting multiple retailers and searches high and low for the best deals to bring readers. A born-and-bred New Yorker, Louis is also an avid swimmer and marathoner. His piece of work has appeared on Gizmodo, CNET, and Fourth dimension Out New York.