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Deals: Apple's 256GB M1 MacBook Air Drops to $849.99 ($149 Off)

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Amazon has Apple's 256GB M1 MacBook Air for $849.99, down from $999.00. This sale is only available in Gold, and it's sold directly from Amazon with delivery as soon as January 27 for most residences in the United States.

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In order to see the discount, you'll need to add the MacBook Air to your cart on Amazon. Once it's in your cart, you'll see a $49.01 coupon automatically applied to your order, resulting in a total of $149 off the 2020 notebook.

$149 OFF
M1 MacBook Air (256GB) for $849.99

Final price includes $49.01 taken off at checkout.

Amazon's sale is a solid second-best price for the 256GB M1 MacBook Air, and among the major Apple resellers online only Amazon is offering it at this price. You can find even more discounts on other MacBooks by visiting our Best Deals guide for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. In this guide we track the steepest discounts for the newest MacBook models every week, so be sure to bookmark it and check back often if you're shopping for a new Apple notebook.

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B4U Avatar
B4U
57 months ago
It is a bloody crime that we cannot upgrade the storage or RAM afterwards.
Talking about reduce e-waste, Apple.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CausticSoda Avatar
CausticSoda
57 months ago
That's a damned good price, but for me the deal breaker is being stuck with 256 Gb storage. I'm less worried about the RAM.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
steve217 Avatar
steve217
57 months ago
Yes. It’s 8Gb. It also functions fine for mortal users.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Freeangel1
57 months ago
hard drive way too small and 8gb of ram is not enough either.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Starscape Avatar
Starscape
57 months ago
No way to upgrade the RAM or storage, which is par for the course for Apple and its desire to keep their userbase on a regular new device upgrade cycle.

I don't care of the RAM is baked into the M1, that is still a bad design, especially for a company like Apple, that preaches the less-features-for-customers-because-we-care-about-the-environment story all too often. An SOC with the power that the M1 has should have at the very least, 16GB of RAM to start with.
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This is from Apple's description:

* Powerful Performance – Take on everything from professional-quality editing to action-packed gaming with ease. The Apple M1 chip with an 8-core CPU delivers up to 3.5x faster performance than the previous generation while using way less power.

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As it stands, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage will very quickly become an issue for anything close to "professional-quality editing" and games will devour whatever is left of that tiny storage space.

Looks like it's $899 now on Amazon.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
B4U Avatar
B4U
57 months ago

Becouse its literally on the chip? how would you upgrade that
Yeah, and we can make a chandelier with soldered on bulbs too. 🤔
That is simply a bad design, isn't it? ;)
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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