In a rare deal, you can get the latest MacBook Air on sale for $849.99 (opens in new tab) at Best Buy. Traditionally priced at $1,099.99, that’s $250 in savings and the lowest price we’ve ever seen for this Apple laptop. Even better, Best Buy is bundling this deal with one year of AppleTV+ for free. Not only is this one of the best laptop deals available today, it’s also one of the best MacBook deals we’ve seen all year.
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In our Apple MacBook Air 2019 review, we liked its crisp, high-resolution Retina display and strong audio. While it only has two Thunderbolt 3 ports onboard, we gave it an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars. As its name implies, Apple’s MacBook Air is one of the lightest ultrabooks you can get. At 2.8 pounds, the 13.3-inch Apple MacBook Air is on par with competing travel laptops, like the Dell XPS 13 (2.7 pounds) and the HP Spectre x360 (2.8 pounds). It’s just a little lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Pro (3 pounds). The notebook in this deal features a 13.3-inch (2560 x 1600) Retina Display, a Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD storage. In terms of performance, the Apple MacBook Air’s 8th-gen Intel Y-series chip and 8GB of RAM is suitable for day-to-day school or work computing. In one test, we saw no stutter as we multitasked in Chrome. The Air was able to juggle 12 browser tabs, a 1080p video on YouTube, Giphy, Google Forms, Google Docs, Slack, Things and Bear text editor without so much as a stutter. As for ports, the MacBook Air packs two Thunderbolt 3 ports on its left side, one of which you’ll use to charge the notebook. Also on board is a built-in headphone jack to listen to music or podcasts using a wired pair of headphones or speakers. This rare MacBook Air deal is only good while supplies last, so be sure to grab one now while you still can.
