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Take $200 Off Every M4 MacBook Air, Available From $799

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Amazon and Best Buy are hosting big discounts across the entire M4 MacBook Air lineup, with deals that represent all-time lows across every model of the computer. In total, you'll find $200 off the M4 MacBook Air notebook right now, with both 13-inch and 15-inch models on sale.

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Prices start at $799.00 for the 13-inch 256GB model at Best Buy, down from $999.00. If you're looking for the larger model, you can get the 15-inch 256GB computer for $999.00 at both retailers, down from $1,199.00.




Of course, you'll also find all of the 512GB models of the 13-inch and 15-inch M4 MacBook Air on sale this week. If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week.



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this I why I don't understand Apple's ridiculous base model specs kind of shoots Apple's branding in the foot - 256GB is going to be a headache limitation to even gray-haired grandmas. Someone thinks they are buying into Apple quality only to run out of space in a couple of months.

yes all my files are on exterior drives - that doesn't mean the people who would buy this deal will understand that.
 
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Yeah, hopefully this can be the new starting price. Double the RAM of previous generation and then taking $200 off? I snatched this up so fast and got the 512 storage version. When m1 Airs went fanless, I was skeptical because of the 2015 MacBook, but this thing powers through tasks and barely gets warm. Even when gaming the heat is very mild, although I will put it on a cooling fan for good measure on long term hardware health. I am more than pleased with this laptop coming from a 2017 i5 iMac, and a 2010 Core 2 Duo MacBook before that.
 
I suddenly lost interest in the up coming low cost MacBook. Word around the campfire is it will be $599. In terms of value, for 2 C-note more you get a lot more computer in the 13" M4.
 
Apple.com's MacBook Airs just got cheaper. I was looking at a 13" 24GB RAM / 512HDD and it went from $1399 last week to $1299 this week. It's cheaper than Best Buy and Amazon for the same machine.

EDIT: Then I clicked a different link and see it cheaper on Amazon at 1199. Shrug. I give up on knowing the cheapest price
 
cSalmon said:
this I why I don't understand Apple's ridiculous base model specs kind of shoots Apple's branding in the foot - 256GB is going to be a headache limitation to even gray-haired grandmas. Someone thinks they are buying into Apple quality only to run out of space in a couple of months.

yes all my files are on exterior drives - that doesn't mean the people who would buy this deal will understand that.
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You think Apple isn't doing this on purpose.

Upgrade = Moar Money
 
cSalmon said:
this I why I don't understand Apple's ridiculous base model specs kind of shoots Apple's branding in the foot - 256GB is going to be a headache limitation to even gray-haired grandmas. Someone thinks they are buying into Apple quality only to run out of space in a couple of months.
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What are those grey-haired grandmas going to be storing that uses up all that space? Movies and music come from streaming services now days, Photos are stored in the cloud.

Creative professionals need more space, sure, but there’s certainly a lot of casual users for whom 256GB is perfectly fine now days. I’d argue that 16GB RAM is the bigger limitation in the longer term.
 
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What are those grey-haired grandmas going to be storing that uses up all that space? Movies and music come from streaming services now days, Photos are stored in the cloud.

Creative professionals need more space, sure, but there’yes certainly a lot of casual users for whom 256GB is perfectly fine now days. I’d argue that 16GB RAM is the bigger limitation in the longer term.
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Totally agree. I have an over 4 year old M1 MBA with a 256GB drive and have 127GB free. I don't really do anything special other than occasionally clean out clutter and move some of the stuff I want to keep to one of the external drives on my mini. I get a laugh at all these experts that seem to think their use case is the only one that exists on the planet. FWIW, my previous MBA had a 128GB drive and while I had to be a lot more cognizant of the free space left, it never really caused a problem either. But 256GB seems absolutely spacious in comparison.
 
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What are those grey-haired grandmas going to be storing that uses up all that space? Movies and music come from streaming services now days, Photos are stored in the cloud.

Creative professionals need more space, sure, but there’s certainly a lot of casual users for whom 256GB is perfectly fine now days. I’d argue that 16GB RAM is the bigger limitation in the longer term.
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I guess it depends upon what you do (or don't do)!
 
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cSalmon said:
this I why I don't understand Apple's ridiculous base model specs kind of shoots Apple's branding in the foot - 256GB is going to be a headache limitation to even gray-haired grandmas. Someone thinks they are buying into Apple quality only to run out of space in a couple of months.

yes all my files are on exterior drives - that doesn't mean the people who would buy this deal will understand that.
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You are making a sweeping generalization. I have been using 256GB on my base M2 MBA for three years without a problem. Barely used half the available storage. We have a family iCloud plan ( 5 members) that provides 2 TB of cloud storage to share, so I have documents, photos, etc.. optimized to the cloud. It works great. Never a problem.
 
Tempted... made the mistake to buy a 256GB and 8GB Ram Air... its not useable anymore.
 
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Yep… you’re storing your photo library and iOS device backups locally, which can easily be on the cloud (or cloud-optimised) instead if you wanted the space back. Same for your messages and documents.
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Not being so constrained, I definitely enjoy both :)
 
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