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MacBook air Late 2020 model @ Best Buy $799

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MacBook Air 13.3" Laptop - Apple M1 chip - 8GB Memory - 256GB SSD - Space Gray
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/macb...Id=5721600

Back on sale again, no need to go over all of the basics everyone pretty much knows the details. So let the M1 vs M2 war begin (again).
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Model: Apple Macbook Air 13.3" 3.2Ghz M1 8-Core 8Gb 256Gb Ssd Space Gray

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04/30/24Best Buy$399
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04/29/24Best Buy$399
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04/27/24Amazon$608.29
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03/24/24B&H Photo Video$699
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03/19/24Best Buy$650
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03/18/24Best Buy$649.99
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03/17/24Best Buy$649.99
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03/15/24Best Buy$649.99
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03/15/24Best Buy$650
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03/15/24Best Buy$650 popular
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03/15/24Walmart$699 frontpage
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01/22/24Best Buy$749.99
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01/04/24Best Buy CA$749.99
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11/15/23Amazon$749.99
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10/28/23Best Buy$749.99
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08/10/23Best Buy$749.99
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07/20/23Amazon$750 frontpage
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07/10/23Amazon$750 frontpage
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05/27/23Amazon$799
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05/05/23Amazon$869
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PurpleRose307
02-28-2023 at 03:20 PM.
02-28-2023 at 03:20 PM.
M1 with 256gb 8gb $799
M2 with 256gb 8gb $999
Seems like a no brainer Save $200 bucks - no 8k video editing for me lol
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bieberwhole69
02-28-2023 at 03:46 PM.
02-28-2023 at 03:46 PM.
whenever I look, this model is at this price. seems like this is the actual price now for the past year-ish.. but they raise it (for a short period) so that it seems like a 'sale' lol

def waiting for later this year for the m2 to drop to this price. don't really care about the m2.. but the lack of ports on the m1 is disgusting. i only want the m2 model bc it actually has ports. not a fan of dongles/hubs.
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reaperman
02-28-2023 at 05:51 PM.
02-28-2023 at 05:51 PM.
It does suck that there are only 2 ports on any laptop. I picked one up for my daughter in New Zealand, everything there is crazy expensive. I'll grab a hub to go along with the computer. I have the M1 mini and a 4k monitor for myself, its a great system, very snappy plus its more than enough for me.
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nevergoodenough
02-28-2023 at 06:05 PM.
02-28-2023 at 06:05 PM.
I have the m1 pro and the m1 chip is plenty fast and provides great battery life.

Now let all the haggling poor people of SD shoot down this deal because it isn't m2 while they enjoy their Chromebooks
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slick-dealz
03-02-2023 at 02:11 PM.
03-02-2023 at 02:11 PM.
I bought the M2 for my wife, from Best Buy. The only reason I got the M2 over the M1 is due to the charging port. She misses the MagSafe charger, and the USB C charger is too risky with little kids running around.
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SweatyWeasels
03-04-2023 at 08:32 AM.
03-04-2023 at 08:32 AM.
Quote from nevergoodenough :
I have the m1 pro and the m1 chip is plenty fast and provides great battery life.

Now let all the haggling poor people of SD shoot down this deal because it isn't m2 while they enjoy their Chromebooks
It's funny that a chromebook has just slightly worse hardware than most baseline MacBooks. Apple fan boys are idiots, and need to stop defending apple. I mean seriously... Their m2 with 8gigs of ram and 256 of mem is about the same speed as an m1 with 256gigs because they went cheap on the stick, they should have kept it 2 sticks. The only way to get a little more speed is to at least get 512. Apple is a joke, and the people who defend them are even worse.
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lieutenant_sneer
03-05-2023 at 12:28 AM.

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03-05-2023 at 12:28 AM.
Bought one for the same price a few months ago and it has just been an awesome laptop. The only way I can get it to chug is to open multiple Chrome windows with dozens upon dozens of tabs (maybe 200+ total), but at that point, I'm at 16GB of swap, in addition to the 8GB in use.

In short, as long as you reign in the tab hoarding and reboot if things ever do bog down, this is a phenomenal laptop for the price. Battery, power, screen, materials, and general feel scream quality. Under normal use, it's cool to the touch with no noisy fans, even when sitting directly on a bed/couch for hours. It's scary how much they've leapfrogged x86-64 laptops in this category.

Also, Windows 11 is starting to feel like a "freemium" experience, with ads, popups. and upsales galore. No preinstalled Tiktok here. I use and fix Windows computers all day and this is the one I'm happier to come home to.
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