Deals: Get Apple's 512GB M1 MacBook Air for New Low Price of $1,049.99 ($199 Off) [Update: Expired]

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Well, i think this generation is best because next will be colored plastics

They won't be plastic, but yeah, colored. There should still be a silver option. But no Space Grey anymore. There will be many other improvements. And likely the M2 chip.

 

[sw1tcher]

$1059 through Apple's refurb store. Available in Gold, Silver, and Space Gray

Or $849 if you're okay with base 8GB memory / 256GB storage version.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

If an iPhone 13 is $1,099 MSRP then an iPhone X can’t be $999.

However, iPhone 12 can be $999.

And iPhone 11 can be $899.

Based on that logic, an iPhone XS can be $799.

And an iPhone X would be $699.

But Apple is knocking off N dollars, so you wind up with: ???

iPhone 13 $799
iPhone 12 $699
iPhone 11 $499
iPhone XS $449?
iPhone X $399?

And the pricing changes depending on your carrier, the deal you sign, etc.

What?
I don’t think that’s how pricing works.
The value of something goes down when something new comes out. How much it goes down by is determined by what is new in this upgraded model.
Most would say the M1 MacBook Air is vastly, vastly superior to the previous generation Intel model, therefore the Intel model loses a lot of its value.
Meanwhile the difference between the iPhone XR and iPhone 11 is so small that keeping them around at the same price is basically pointless.

 

[JPack]

Guesstimating the price of MacBook Air M1 components

M1 MacBook Pro and Air Teardowns

Past, meet future—it’s a mix of old and new in our dual teardown of the newest M1-powered MacBooks.

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- Aluminum Shell - $80
- Keyboard - $90
- M1 Chip - $250
- 8GB RAM - $80
- Trackpad - $40
- Retina Display - $250
- MoBo - $80
- PSU - $40
- 256GB SSD - $159
- Ribbons - $15
- Battery - $80
- WiFi / Misc - $100

Totals about $1249

Given that MBA sells for $899 every day of the week, no chance of those numbers.

Over the summer, Apple was selling MBA for $740 to all students, staff, parents, homeschool teachers, real teachers, and anyone who crosses their fingers claiming to be one.

 

[JPack]

I've got the base M1 Air with 8GB and it handles every thing I throw at it. Why do you need more? If you do, the Air probably isn't the right computer for you. Get the credit card out and buy a MBP. Lots of credit cards actually.

Plenty of situations call for more than 8GB. Given how frugal Apple is with RAM, they didn’t throw in 16GB in the M1 iPad Pro just for fun.

 

[Kebabselector]

Apple education store has some nice discounts.

Sadly for the UK you have to log on via UNIdays to get education pricing. There used to be a way around it, but that loophole closed. https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/education-pricing

I do get 6% from an employer discount (used to get a 12% staff discount from John Lewis - via family - but the discount doesn't apply on Apple products anymore).

There's complicated way to get discounts again via my employer discount using an instant voucher (Currys 7%, Argos 7%, John lewis 4.5%) - although not sure if these work on sales/black friday so i'm a bit hesitant to use this method.

 

[Kebabselector]

opps double post! (I'm sure there was a delete post button somewhere!!)