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It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes a solid price for Apple's M1-based MacBook Air, the entry-level version of which is currently down to $850 at Amazon. You should see a notice of an extra $100 off on Amazon's listing page, with the full discount applied in your cart.
Outside of a couple brief drops to $800 last year, this is the lowest price we've tracked for this notebook version—which includes a basic 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage—from a major retailer. The deal comes out to $149 less than Apple's MSRP and roughly $90 lower than the average street price we've seen online in recent months.
Note that this deal applies to the MacBook Air that launched in 2020 and runs on Apple's M1 chip, not the model that arrived earlier this year with a revamped design and faster M2 SoC. We generally recommend the latter to most people in the market for a new MacBook today, as it offers a moderate performance boost (largely on the graphics side of things), a brighter screen with a bit more real estate (albeit with a "notched" design), a MagSafe connector, and a much nicer camera and audio system for video calls. The entry-level version of that notebook is also on sale today for $1,099, which is $100 off Apple's MSRP.
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