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Deals: Apple's M1 MacBook Air Drops to Best-Ever Price of $799.99

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Apple's 2020 M1 MacBook Air (256GB) has dropped to $799.99 on Amazon today, down from $999.00, which is a record low price. This sale is available in all three colors of the M1 MacBook Air: Gold, Silver, and Space Gray.

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Gold and Space Gray are in stock and ready to ship, with estimated delivery dates between November 16 and 21. Silver is seeing slight delays into late November, with estimated delivery dates between November 23 and 28.



Apple updated the MacBook Air this year with the M2 chip, but kept the M1 notebooks in its lineup as entry-level models. Although they are previous-generation devices with older hardware, the M1 MacBook Air should be perfect for anyone who needs a computer for everyday tasks like internet browsing and checking email, especially at this all-time low price.

We're keeping track of all of the season's best Apple-related deals in our Black Friday roundup, so be sure to check back throughout the month for an updated list of all the most notable discounts you'll find for Black Friday 2022.

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JoEw said:
Is this all time low? I thought people were getting this for $750 at some retail outlets last year.
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Cheapest I recall for a new unit is $779.99 at Micro Center.

I know when Best Buy sold it for $799.99, people bought open boxed units for under $750. Maybe that's what you're remembering?
 
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Not all time low for someone who bought it flawless at 700-something open box from Micro Center! That's as low as I'd go for something with a known screen flaw. 2,583 people have had screens crack, 53 pages of stories and climbing daily. I love the computer but I will continue to avoid closing it or traveling with it as much as possible until a repair program opens up. Bring on the laugh reactions

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swester said:
8GB is honestly fine for 99% of tasks I've thrown at it. I've had Chrome, Slack, Final Cut, Whatsapp, etc all open concurrently and still has room to breathe.

The M1 and current OS versions are masterful at RAM management.
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Agree 8GB is fine for most computer users. Even those who claim it is not generally go by Apple's memory pressure indicator which, frankly, seems designed to upsell RAM. I've seen this go yellow and red without any noticeable performance lag with Office, web, large photo libraries, massive email libraries, browsing with tons of tabs etc.

If you're into serious Photoshop, 8K video editing, coding, 100+ Logic Pro tracks etc. then you need more RAM - but you know that already.

Put it this way. I have both 16GB and 8GB Apple Silicon Macs. They perform about the same for nearly everything that I do with a computer. The only thing I don't do on the 8GB machine is use Windows 11 VMs. It might be fine, but I haven't tried because, well, I have a 16GB machine for that.
 
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CalMin said:
Agree 8GB is fine for most computer users. Even those who claim it is not generally go by Apple's memory pressure indicator which, frankly, seems designed to upsell RAM. I've seen this go yellow and red without any noticeable performance lag with Office, web, large photo libraries, massive email libraries, browsing with tons of tabs etc.

If you're into serious Photoshop, 8K video editing, coding, 100+ Logic Pro tracks etc. then you need more RAM - but you know that already.

Put it this way. I have both 16GB and 8GB Apple Silicon Macs. They perform about the same for nearly everything that I do with a computer. The only thing I don't do on the 8GB machine is use Windows 11 VMs. It might be fine, but I haven't tried because, well, I have a 16GB machine for that.
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Same. I have an M1 iMac with 16 GB RAM and an M1 Air with 8 GB RAM. Been using the Air for over a year, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen any kind of big slowdown -- and that was when running three user accounts simultaneously (don't ask) and loading up a massive Illustrator doc in one of them.

Day to day, the Air slows down for nothing, even when I've got a dozen apps running. Memory management is awesome these days, and the SSDs are so damn fast that even if you do run into VM territory, the swap is almost unnoticable.

But if you spend your days obsessing over "memory pressure" stats and running benchmarks, I guess it matters more?
 
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SolarSailer120 said:
Not all time low for someone who bought it flawless at 700-something open box from Micro Center! That's as low as I'd go for something with a known screen flaw. 2,583 people have had screens crack, 53 pages of stories and climbing daily. I love the computer but I will continue to avoid closing it or traveling with it as much as possible until a repair program opens up. Bring on the laugh reactions

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I don't know, man. I've had one for a year and my wife has had one for two years and nobody's screens are cracking over here. We open and close ours quite freely and put them into our bags. 😱
 
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SolarSailer120 said:
Not all time low for someone who bought it flawless at 700-something open box from Micro Center! That's as low as I'd go for something with a known screen flaw. 2,583 people have had screens crack, 53 pages of stories and climbing daily. I love the computer but I will continue to avoid closing it or traveling with it as much as possible until a repair program opens up. Bring on the laugh reactions

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There is no flaw. One person does not a mass flaw make.
 
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Honestly, for hardware, this smokes almost all $799 Windows laptops.

Really unusual how Apple is the value king with the M1. Previously, I avoided Macs because it felt like all the same issues as high-end Windows laptops and I need to learn another OS.

But with Apple Silicon at $799, it’s a haltingly good deal. Over 4 family members / friends have picked it up at these prices and they blow out the battery life & 1T perf of every Windows laptop.
 
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I don't know, man. I've had one for a year and my wife has had one for two years and nobody's screens are cracking over here. We open and close ours quite freely and put them into our bags. 😱
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We have two of the M1 MBAs here, too. One of them we even bought used. No issues with the screen or anything, and we haven’t been particularly careful with either of them.

The only thing I would advise is to not buy the rose gold - it’s a nice color but scratches and scuffs show on it more than on silver and space gray.
 
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Good option for someone that doesn't need much RAM and doesn't have a lot of iCloud data or photos.... or doesn't mind constantly being up against a full disk.
 
Best EVER? NOPE! Best Buy had this LAST THANKSGIVING timeframe for $750. 1 YEAR LATER, it should be $650.
 
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swester said:
8GB is honestly fine for 99% of tasks I've thrown at it. I've had Chrome, Slack, Final Cut, Whatsapp, etc all open concurrently and still has room to breathe.

The M1 and current OS versions are masterful at RAM management.
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Yeah, but it won't be enough RAM at some point in the future. I'd guess you are feeling pinched by 2024. If you swap your laptop faster than that, you might not care (though it will hurt your resale value). But for folks who expect 6 to 10 years out of a Mac (which is a very common expectation outside of nerds like us commenting on Macrumors), 8gb of RAM is a deal breaker.

I've extended the life of too many Macs over the years by adding RAM not to suggest that everyone get something with just a bit more RAM now that RAM is not user upgradeable. That said, I'm open to the possibility that the combination of OS programing, ultra fast RAM, and very fast SSD for swap, might mean that RAM limitations are being worked around and will continue to be worked around for years to come even for these relatively RAM limited machines.
 
MICHAELSD said:
I would consider trying this, but apparently the display has an extremely high-frequency PWM.
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macduke said:
If it didn't have less RAM than my frickin iPad I might consider it as a travel computer.
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sw1tcher said:
and lack the MagSafe connector. MagSafe has saved my bacon too many times.
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BGPL said:
Good option for someone that doesn't need much RAM and doesn't have a lot of iCloud data or photos.... or doesn't mind constantly being up against a full disk.
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You lot are a bunch of pathetic cry babies.
 
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No it's not, it was $799 in mid October. Best Buy priced match and I picked one up that night for my daughter. Excellent win. No complaints.
 
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