The best back to school deal of the summer knocks MacBook Air M1 to $749

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Heads upward: This could be one of the best MacBook deals of all time. The Editor'southward Choice MacBook Air but striking its everyman cost ever.

Currently, Best Buy has the Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) on sale for $849.99. Students who sign up for Best Buy'due south free educatee newsletter will save an extra $100 for a final toll of $749.99. That'southward the everyman toll we've ever seen for this laptop and one of the best Apple tree deals of all time. (An edu e-mail service is required for the Best Buy student deals newsletter).

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MacBook Air M1 bargain

The new MacBook Air features a 13-inch two,560 x 1600-pixel Retina display, 8GB of RAM, Apple'south 8-core M1 CPU, and a 256GB SSD. Despite being the base configuration, this MacBook packs the same CPU equally the pricier MacBook Pro M1 and offers enough horsepower for just well-nigh annihilation you lot throw its way.

In our MacBook Air M1 review, we gave this model a about-perfect score for its outstanding functioning, comfortable keyboard pattern, high-resolution webcam, and surprisingly potent battery life. The Air scored 5,962 on the Geekbench 5.1 (Intel) multicore test, which was practically in a dead-rut with the 5,925 from the M1 MacBook Pro. It too soundly shell the 5,084 from the ZenBook 13 and the 5,319 from the XPS xiii (both tested with the Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU and 16GB of RAM), on the comparable Geekbench five.2 test.

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Equally deals editor at Tom's Guide, Louis is constantly looking for ways to avoid paying total cost for the latest gadgets. With over 10 years of deals-hunting experience, Louis price 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.