Hurry! Epic MacBook Air M1 deal just dropped to $799

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If y'all're nonetheless looking for holiday gifts, Best Buy just won the twenty-four hours with one of the best Apple tree deals we've seen all twelvemonth.

For a express fourth dimension, you can get the Apple MacBook Air M1 on auction for $799.99 at Best Buy. That's $200 off and the lowest cost nosotros've seen for this Editor's Selection laptop. If you need more storage, the 512GB model is on auction for $1,049.99 at Amazon ($200 off).

The latest MacBook Air features a xiii-inch 2,560 10 1600-pixel Retina brandish, 8GB of RAM, Apple's viii-core M1 CPU, and a 256GB SSD — and information technology's all packed in a slim 2.8-pound chassis that's more portable than the MacBook Pro.

In our MacBook Air M1 review, nosotros gave this model a nigh-perfect score thank you to its outstanding operation, comfortable keyboard design, Hard disk drive webcam, and very stiff bombardment life. Nosotros were likewise impressed with the Truthful Tone technology, which allows the display to automatically adjust to your environment, thus being piece of cake on the optics.

Although we weren't fans of its relatively thick bezels and lack of boosted ports, the MacBook Air 2020 is withal one of the best laptops correct now. In fact, we went as far as stating that "the MacBook Air M1 has the speed and battery life to beat the best PCs."

The powerful M1 chip allowed the Air to score 5,962 on the Geekbench v.i (Intel) multicore test, which was practically in a dead-estrus with the 5,925 from the M1 MacBook Pro. It besides soundly crush the 5,084 from the ZenBook thirteen and the 5,319 from the XPS 13 (both tested with the Intel Cadre i7-1165G7 CPU and 16GB of RAM), on the comparable Geekbench v.2 exam.

Overall, because that Apple's laptops rarely go on sale, this bargain is an accented deal. And in case yous wanted to browse through other discounts on Apple laptops, make sure to check out our MacBook deals coverage for more than sales.

As deals editor at Tom's Guide, Louis is constantly looking for ways to avert paying full cost for the latest gadgets. With over x years of deals-hunting feel, Louis toll checks against multiple retailers and searches loftier and low for the all-time deals to bring readers. A born-and-bred New Yorker, Louis is also an avid swimmer and marathoner. His work has appeared on Gizmodo, CNET, and Time Out New York.