Epic Back to school sale — MacBook Air M1 just crashed to $799

Epic Dorsum to school auction — MacBook Air M1 just crashed to $799

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Back to schoolhouse flavour is one of the all-time times of the year to pick up a new laptop. For instance, right now Best Buy has one of the best back to school sales we've seen all calendar month.

Currently, All-time Buy has the Editor'south Pick Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) on sale for $899.99. Students can save an actress $100 for a final price of $799.99. That's the lowest price we've ever seen for this laptop and one of the best Apple deals we've seen this twelvemonth. You'll need to sign upward for Best Buy's free student newsletter to become a promo code for this deal. (An edu due east-mail is required).

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MacBook Air M1 deal

The new MacBook Air features a 13-inch two,560 x 1600-pixel Retina brandish, 8GB of RAM, Apple'southward eight-core M1 CPU, and a 256GB SSD. Despite being the base configuration, this MacBook packs the same CPU as the pricier MacBook Pro M1 and offers enough horsepower for simply nigh anything you throw its way.

In our MacBook Air M1 review, we gave this model a near-perfect score for its outstanding operation, comfortable keyboard blueprint, high-resolution webcam, and surprisingly strong battery life. The Air scored 5,962 on the Geekbench v.one (Intel) multicore test, which was practically in a dead-heat with the 5,925 from the M1 MacBook Pro. It also soundly trounce the 5,084 from the ZenBook xiii and the 5,319 from the XPS thirteen (both tested with the Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU and 16GB of RAM), on the comparable Geekbench 5.2 examination.

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As deals editor at Tom'due south Guide, Louis is constantly looking for ways to avoid paying total toll for the latest gadgets. With over x years of deals-hunting experience, Louis price checks against multiple retailers and searches high and low for the best deals to bring readers. A born-and-bred New Yorker, Louis is likewise an avid swimmer and marathoner. His piece of work has appeared on Gizmodo, CNET, and Time Out New York.