There are also discounts on the new M4-powered Mac mini and iMac. We also picked out some offers on Apple wearables. Apple’s refreshed Mac line went on.
Apple’s refreshed Mac line went on sale last week – it included brand new devices with the efficient M4 chip, as well as some models that were updated to support Apple Intelligence (which works better when there’s more RAM available).
This meant that the MacBook Air laptops – which are 2024 models, even though they use the M3 chip instead of the M4 – now have 16GB of RAM in the base configuration, up from 8GB. Naturally, retailers that had 8GB models stocked up dropped their prices to clear them out of their inventory.
But now even the 16GB versions are discounted – the MacBook Air (2024) has a $200 discount for both the 13” and 15” variants. Base storage is still at 256GB and the jump to 512GB is a pricey $200 upgrade. These are lightweight (2.7lbs/3.3lbs for the 13” and 15” models, respectively), with great battery life and plenty of performance for light to medium tasks.
If you don’t need quite so much performance, the older Apple MacBook Air (2022) with an M2 chip is still around and also got bumped up to 16GB of RAM. It’s $150 less than its M3 successor.
