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Deals: Get the M1 13-Inch MacBook Pro for $1,199.99 on Amazon ($99 Off)

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Amazon is offering the M1-enabled 13-inch MacBook Pro (256GB) for $1,199.99, down from $1,299.00. You'll see the price reflected at the checkout screen after a $50 coupon is automatically applied.

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This is a match of the previous low price that we've seen on this MacBook Pro, and it's only available in Silver. Due to high demand, the notebook won't be in stock until January 14, but you can order it today to lock in this sale price.



B&H Photo is matching this price in Space Gray, but the retailer also has low stock and no estimate for when they will start shipping. In terms of the 512GB model, you can save $50 on Amazon.

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.

Article Link: Deals: Get the M1 13-Inch MacBook Pro for $1,199.99 on Amazon ($99 Off)
 
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ridgero said:
Many reviews say, that 8 GB in the M1 act like 16 GB with Intel Macs.
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CPU should not affect ram usage an image is still an image etc. Im sure Apple has implemented some ways to cutdown on ram usage in their arm code backend but if your standing up a lot of VMs or other traditionally ram intensive tasks those minor improvements wont help you especially a year or two from now when 64GB is becoming the norm.
 
ridgero said:
Many reviews say, that 8 GB in the M1 act like 16 GB with Intel Macs.
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CPU should not affect ram usage an image is still an image etc. Im sure Apple has implemented some ways to cutdown on ram usage in their arm code backend but if your standing up a lot of VMs or other traditionally ram intensive tasks those minor improvements wont help you especially a year or two from now when 64GB is becoming the norm.
 
They dinged my credit when I tried to buy through their pay boo thing. Went with Amazon and it was smooth. Jeff Bezos is king for a reason. I hope he gets even richer.
 
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At face value 8GB RAM seems crazy in 2020. However, after reading nearly everything about these new machines they are insane. The MacBook Air can compete with a 16" MBP and can comfortably run Xcode and can compile just as quickly, and it doesn't even have a fan!
If you consider iPhones, they also have small amounts of RAM compared to flagship Samsungs and yet iPhones run significantly better and are far more efficient.

Apple have done some crazy stuff with the new silicon and it's probably the most exciting announcements Apple have made in a long while. The future looks very bright.

If there's one thing Apple have never never been interested in, it's showing spec sheets to try and prove they are better just because the numbers are higher because quite frankly specs mean very little and Apple have proved that time and time again with real word examples with software and hardware integration.
 
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I bit on the SimplyMac $1149 promo from a few weeks ago. I've had my M1 for only a couple of days, but so far it's really, really impressive.
 
performa_6400 said:
Have you not read any of the reviews of these things running multiple apps, editing raw 8k video files all while sitting as cool as a cucumber?
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Yes, the performance of the 8GB M1 is impressive, this year. 3-4 years down the line, apps will have gotten more memory intensive (especially things like running VMs, which isn’t really possible yet), and this machine will still only have 8 GB. Personally, I see the 256 GB SSD as a bigger limiting factor. When I buy an M1-based machine, it’s going to have larger amounts of both RAM and SSD, with an eye towards handling anything I can throw at it for years to come.
 
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CarlJ said:
Low-priced deals on unspecified models of Macs are way less interesting in this era where you can’t upgrade the RAM and SSD later. There’s no way I’d buy a Mac that was limited to 256 GB of SSD and 8 GB of RAM.
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Yeah, I mean 8GB is arguable after seeing the review of M1 w 8GB, but how does anyone get by on only 256GB??? 1T is absolute minimum for me, but for some bizarre reason, are ridiculously expensive after many years of barely moving SSD prices, especially with the massive Apple tax applied, but even without.
 
ridgero said:
Many reviews say, that 8 GB in the M1 act like 16 GB with Intel Macs.
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Yes, especially because the SOC is so much faster, the RAM for one is much more responsive. But there's been nothing definitive that 8 is just as good as 16. Workloads will take advantage of the extra memory. And, frankly, depending how and what you do, browser bloat alone is one that push that limit.

Purchasing 16GB is probably not a bad upgrade if you're gambling on future-proofing and resale value in 3 years. For me, the annoying thing is that I am thinking that the M1 Air with 16GB is $1199 as well. IMHO, from all the reviews I've watched, the real deal would be getting a discount on a unit with that upgraded RAM. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen as much.
 
sideshowuniqueuser said:
Yeah, I mean 8GB is arguable after seeing the review of M1 w 8GB, but how does anyone get by on only 256GB??? 1T is absolute minimum for me, but for some bizarre reason, are ridiculously expensive after many years of barely moving SSD prices, especially with the massive Apple tax applied, but even without.
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I really wish Apple would engineer in an extra M2 slot. Because if you're a content creator, you're going to fill up all these drives quickly. And dongles are easily broken.
 
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CarlJ said:
Low-priced deals on unspecified models of Macs are way less interesting in this era where you can’t upgrade the RAM and SSD later. There’s no way I’d buy a Mac that was limited to 256 GB of SSD and 8 GB of RAM.
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Agree.
 
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