Back to school season is one of the best 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 month.
Currently, Best Buy has the Editor's Choice Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) on sale for $899.99 (opens in new tab). Students can save an extra $100 for a final price of $799.99 (opens in new tab). That's the lowest price we've ever seen for this laptop and one of the best Apple deals we've seen this year. You'll need to sign up for Best Buy's free student newsletter (opens in new tab) to get a promo code for this deal. (An edu e-mail is required).
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MacBook Air M1 deal
(opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)The new MacBook Air features a 13-inch 2,560 x 1600-pixel Retina display, 8GB of RAM, Apple's 8-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 just about anything you throw its way.
In our MacBook Air M1 review, we gave this model a near-perfect score for its outstanding performance, comfortable keyboard design, high-resolution webcam, and surprisingly strong battery life. The Air scored 5,962 on the Geekbench 5.1 (Intel) multicore test, which was practically in a dead-heat with the 5,925 from the M1 MacBook Pro. It also soundly beat the 5,084 from the ZenBook 13 and the 5,319 from the XPS 13 (both tested with the Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU and 16GB of RAM), on the comparable Geekbench 5.2 test.
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