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Of course it’s going to be discounting the base model. Not many people buying them from apple either. Just for the sake of opening a few more browser tabs you’d be better off going for 16GB model. Mine Has 15GB used all the time because of tabs.

Let’s see if M2 base model in 2022 would be the same or slightly better.
 
I bought 1 Apple produc from Amazon once, I won’t do that again. The battery life in the item I purchased from Amazon was subpar. I think the reason Apple items go on sale at Amazon is because they’ve been sitting around way too long. So for me at least, it’s not worth the small savings.
 
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