The M5 MacBook Air Has Never Been Cheaper

at a time With almost everything getting more expensive, this deal on the M5 MacBook Air gives me hope for what laptop prices will be like for the rest of the year. The M5 MacBook Air is back down to $949, ​​which is $150 less than its retail price. It has only been at this price once since the product launched in early March and has consistently sold for $1,049. As someone who has reviewed every MacBook available and their strongest competitors, I can unequivocally say that this MacBook Air is one of the best laptop deals out there right now.

Take the Surface Laptop 7th Edition, for example, which has been one of my favorite alternatives to the MacBook Air until 2025. It was priced competitively with the M4 MacBook Air, with both laptops sometimes dropping to $799 during sales events like Prime Day throughout the year. But now, the lack of RAM has led to an official price increase for the Surface Laptop and it currently costs $1,200. It’s still a laptop I like quite a bit, but at $350 more than a similarly configured M5 MacBook Air, it’s very hard to recommend.

Or consider the MacBook Neo, Apple’s new budget laptop that launched in March. Even though it’s pretty cheap overall, it’s still on sale for just $10 off its full price. At this low price of $949 for the M5 MacBook Air, there’s only a dangerously small $260 gap left between the Neo and the Air. It’s almost embarrassing how much better the air is by comparison – in every way imaginable. If you want to know how these two laptops stack up to each other, I’ve done a comprehensive comparison between them that’s worth checking out. But simply put, despite all the excitement (and controversy) over the much cheaper MacBook Neo, the MacBook Air still has the most price flexibility when it comes to deals.