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Deals: Apple's 256GB M1 MacBook Air Drops to $849.99 ($149 Off)

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Amazon has Apple's 256GB M1 MacBook Air for $849.99, down from $999.00. This sale is only available in Gold, and it's sold directly from Amazon with delivery as soon as January 27 for most residences in the United States.

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In order to see the discount, you'll need to add the MacBook Air to your cart on Amazon. Once it's in your cart, you'll see a $49.01 coupon automatically applied to your order, resulting in a total of $149 off the 2020 notebook.


Final price includes $49.01 taken off at checkout.​


Amazon's sale is a solid second-best price for the 256GB M1 MacBook Air, and among the major Apple resellers online only Amazon is offering it at this price. You can find even more discounts on other MacBooks by visiting our Best Deals guide for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. In this guide we track the steepest discounts for the newest MacBook models every week, so be sure to bookmark it and check back often if you're shopping for a new Apple notebook.

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What a deal! My family has this exact model. Even with two diff user accounts (fast user switching is awesome), we've NEVER had a RAM issue.

(You can get this price almost daily in the Apple refurb store, except you can get the two other colors. ;-))
 
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B4U said:
It is a bloody crime that we cannot upgrade the storage or RAM afterwards.
Talking about reduce e-waste, Apple.
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If we jump in a time machine back to 2013 or so , we can just see this ship that sailed so long ago...
 
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Sounds like a good deal, but I really want the upcoming MacBook Air with MagSafe. MagSafe is the best feature of Apple laptops.
 
I'm using the absolute ass end MBA as advertised as my main computer. RAM has not been a problem and 120Gb of storage left still. This was somewhat an experiment on minimalism and also because it was the only model I didn't have to wait forever for when it came out because I'm really impatient.

Keep your crap tidy, prune junk regularly and close your apps and it's fine ?.
 
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Apple, most people don’t need so fast of ssd. Please have a slower speed option with double the capacity for the same price.
 
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The storage is the deal breaker. I have a Early 2015 13 inch and that came with 256 GBs and it ran out of storage in no time. I was constantly deleting stuff from it. Apple is obviously doing this so they can then upsell you iCloud storage.
 
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Great machine. If 256 GB/8GB RAM isn't enough for you, don't buy it. I may not do high end professional work with it but I use this exact machine for Logic and have never had any issues with not having enough RAM. Storage is quick. External storage is quick and light. I also use it for work with various apps open at the same time, Safari, MS Office, Outlook, Messages, Notes, Mail, Chrome, some graphics design apps, and the RAM heavy database app our firm uses - rarely have I felt I NEEDED more RAM.
 
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B4U said:
Nah, Apple included the charger back in 2013 with the iPhone. Unlike now, where they claim it is to reduce e-waste. ?
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I have no doubt that’s a part of it despite cynics like you who are in a “digital” mindset. Either all or nothing. I’m more of an “analog” guy, multiple things can be true at the same time. They can be pro-earth, and also, at the same time, stay with me now, improve their bottom line. I’m not giving them a pass mind you, just laying out a more nuanced discussion.

Tje only beef with no charger I have is not slicing off the price of not including it. I don’t want or need it. I’m covered. But I do what that no charger discount.

Notice how both things are true?
 
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Base model being on deal so often, whereas BTO rarely goes on sale, only means one thing: people either needs more, or prefer more higher end stuff than barebone provides, despite endless YouTube bombardment claiming 256GB is enough and 8GB of Ram is enough, with “data” to back it up. It’s not. Base model should be 512GB nowadays. If streaming is such a massive deal, cut down base to 128GB and jump it to 512GB just like some iPhone and iPad.

I’m not saying M1 is a bad processor. It’s not. But storage space is so limited, I would spend more money to avoid micromanaging it endlessly, than trying to save some bucks while wasting time choosing which to delete.

If the base model goes on sale for $50 more then that’s going to be much more reasonable imo.
 
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Ziperix said:
Becouse its literally on the chip? how would you upgrade that
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RAM yes. But nothing prevents them from putting storage on a NVMe SSD. Except greed of course. And willingness to produce e-waste, so you throw out otherwise functional computer and buy a new one in a couple of years. 256 GB is laughable amount in 2022. You can't even backup your iPhone on that.
 
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magicman32 said:
I have no doubt that’s a part of it despite cynics like you who are in a “digital” mindset. Either all or nothing. I’m more of an “analog” guy, multiple things can be true at the same time. They can be pro-earth, and also, at the same time, stay with me now, improve their bottom line. I’m not giving them a pass mind you, just laying out a more nuanced discussion.

Tje only beef with no charger I have is not slicing off the price of not including it. I don’t want or need it. I’m covered. But I do what that no charger discount.

Notice how both things are true?
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I never doubt it can be both. Here is the thing though, what did Apple say they did that for?
Not telling the complete truth is essentially lying.

Like I have said multiple times everywhere before, Apple can include a voucher for customers who need the charger to use with the included USB C to lightning cable.

Including the USB C to lightning cable in the iPhone 12 and beyond, then claiming everyone has the charging brick is questionable, since they would have the USB A 5W brick that was included all the way to the XS. That was 2018!

Apple only supplied the USB C charging brick for a single year on the iPhone 11 series, and then removed it from the very next year.
 
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