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Amazon has Apple MacBook Air 13.6" Laptop w/ M4 Chip 16GB, 512GB Solid State Drive (2025, Midnight, MW133LL/A) for $949.99. Shipping is free.
Amazon also has Apple MacBook Air 13.6" Laptop w/ M4 Chip 24GB, 512GB Solid State Drive (2025, Midnight, MC6C4LL/A) for $1149.99. Shipping is free.
Costco Wholesale has for its Members:Apple MacBook Air 13.6" Laptop w/ M4 Chip 16GB, 256GB Solid State Drive (2025) on sale for $749.99. Shipping is free.
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Update: This very popular front page deal is still available.
Amazon has Apple MacBook Air 13.6" Laptop w/ M4 Chip 16GB, 512GB Solid State Drive (2025, Midnight, MW133LL/A) for $949.99. Shipping is free.
Amazon also has Apple MacBook Air 13.6" Laptop w/ M4 Chip 24GB, 512GB Solid State Drive (2025, Midnight, MC6C4LL/A) for $1149.99. Shipping is free.
Costco Wholesale has for its Members:Apple MacBook Air 13.6" Laptop w/ M4 Chip 16GB, 256GB Solid State Drive (2025) on sale for $749.99. Shipping is free.
This is the lowest it's been outside of an absolute steal for $700 w/ no tax from shopmyexchange but that was only available to military/veterans.
i absolutely would not expect it to be any cheaper than $750 on Black Friday. Typical sales price is $850 with a few better sales having been $800. Very good chance this is the only sub $800 you'll see for the rest of the year.
This is the lowest it's been outside of an absolute steal for $700 w/ no tax from shopmyexchange but that was only available to military/veterans.
i absolutely would not expect it to be any cheaper than $750 on Black Friday. Typical sales price is $850 with a few better sales having been $800. Very good chance this is the only sub $800 you'll see for the rest of the year.
Even for basic users you have to really ask yourself if you're ok not keeping your photos/video library on the computer, how much email and local file space you'll need, how many apps you'll install, etc.
256GB can be ok, like if you're going to use it like a chrome book or mostly use web apps. But it's on the edge. The space the OS and apps and ML models/Apple intelligence take up is only getting bigger.
Even for basic users you have to really ask yourself if you're ok not keeping your photos/video library on the computer, how much email and local file space you'll need, how many apps you'll install, etc.
256GB can be ok. But it's on the edge. The space the OS and apps and ML models/Apple intelligence take up is only getting bigger.
Agreed. I wouldn't do any less than 512/24 personally.
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Can it get much cheaper? Like at most at most another $50-100 off and is that enough to care about?
True an extra $50 off is barely enough difference to care about, but this is Slickdeals, where people get excited over 50 cents off a two dollar can of food and put it on the front page
Agreed. I wouldn't do any less than 512/24 personally.
For your average user, I don't see any problem with 16GB.
I have a M1 air with 8gb/500gb and that RAM (somewhat the CPU) has only recently become an issue, and I do some hobby dev stuff on it.I'd like >16gb on my next one --mostly to allow ML/LLM models to be loaded and still have ~16Gb of headroom for everything else-- but I think I could get by.
I agree though on the storage space; 500GB is quite constraining for me. 1tb is likely the better place for me to spend (than RAM) on the next machine I get.
Here's my experience with RAM.
Tried out a MBA 15" M3 24GB and a MBA 13" M4 16GB.
I'm mostly just browsing the web and watching media. I don't do any video editing or audio editing. I have a few of those small utility apps installed (like 3-finger tap, AltTab, etc.) and 16GB is perfectly fine for my use case. I even run the M4 in Low-Power mode for extra battery life and don't regret it enough to return it and get the 24GB RAM one.
I do have a gaming desktop PC if I ever need to do anything intensive (not that I do video/audio editing with that) and I do think 512GB of Storage is something you should think about getting.
Buying now and can see if there are better deals over Black Friday. I purchased open box from Best Buy who is in their holiday return period - Jan 15th
I'm new to Apple Macs. I've had an iPhone forever. Never get AppleCare for my phone. Is it recommended for a computer? Why? I'm not going to drop it, etc. But my last computer, Dell XPS, had given me ALL kinds of problems.
The problem with the storage is that most people don't even need 256GB, considering they're only web browsing, streaming, and maybe Office apps. And then, if 256GB is too little, 512GB is almost certainly going to be too small too. Anyway, just take the $200 Apple wants to upcharge for another 256GB and buy a 4TB SSD or 16TB hard drive
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i absolutely would not expect it to be any cheaper than $750 on Black Friday. Typical sales price is $850 with a few better sales having been $800. Very good chance this is the only sub $800 you'll see for the rest of the year.
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i absolutely would not expect it to be any cheaper than $750 on Black Friday. Typical sales price is $850 with a few better sales having been $800. Very good chance this is the only sub $800 you'll see for the rest of the year.
Even for basic users you have to really ask yourself if you're ok not keeping your photos/video library on the computer, how much email and local file space you'll need, how many apps you'll install, etc.
256GB can be ok, like if you're going to use it like a chrome book or mostly use web apps. But it's on the edge. The space the OS and apps and ML models/Apple intelligence take up is only getting bigger.
Even for basic users you have to really ask yourself if you're ok not keeping your photos/video library on the computer, how much email and local file space you'll need, how many apps you'll install, etc.
256GB can be ok. But it's on the edge. The space the OS and apps and ML models/Apple intelligence take up is only getting bigger.
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I have a M1 air with 8gb/500gb and that RAM (somewhat the CPU) has only recently become an issue, and I do some hobby dev stuff on it.I'd like >16gb on my next one --mostly to allow ML/LLM models to be loaded and still have ~16Gb of headroom for everything else-- but I think I could get by.
I agree though on the storage space; 500GB is quite constraining for me. 1tb is likely the better place for me to spend (than RAM) on the next machine I get.
Tried out a MBA 15" M3 24GB and a MBA 13" M4 16GB.
I'm mostly just browsing the web and watching media. I don't do any video editing or audio editing. I have a few of those small utility apps installed (like 3-finger tap, AltTab, etc.) and 16GB is perfectly fine for my use case. I even run the M4 in Low-Power mode for extra battery life and don't regret it enough to return it and get the 24GB RAM one.
I do have a gaming desktop PC if I ever need to do anything intensive (not that I do video/audio editing with that) and I do think 512GB of Storage is something you should think about getting.
I'm new to Apple Macs. I've had an iPhone forever. Never get AppleCare for my phone. Is it recommended for a computer? Why? I'm not going to drop it, etc. But my last computer, Dell XPS, had given me ALL kinds of problems.
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