Apple’s new M1 MacBook Air is a great machine at a great price, but today’s business pretty much makes it an impulse buy. Amazon is selling the 256 GB MacBook Air M1 for $ 929, cutting $ 70 in the MSRP and setting a new low price. The only caveat is that the price is available only in the gold model.
This version of the MacBook Air features a 13.3-inch Retina display, 256 GB of onboard storage and 8 GB of RAM. It also features a FaceTime camera for video calls, two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports and a 3.5 mm headset jack. We reviewed this MacBook Air in November, giving it 4.5 stars and an Editors’ Choice award, calling it “an absolutely impressive debut for Apple’s silicon on a Mac”.
Of course, the star of the show is the M1 chip, which has an 8-core processor with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. A 7-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. We found that this chip performs very well when in emulation mode to run programs designed for Intel Macs, but when you use native software, it just buzzes.
So, if you are looking for an excellent laptop with a lot of speed and a little bit of shine, this is the business you need.
[Today’s deal: 256GB Apple M1 MacBook Air in gold for $929 at Amazon]