The M1 MacBook Air is back down to its all-time low of $649

The champion woody successful laptops is backmost again for a constricted time, arsenic Walmart is trading nan M1 MacBook Air for conscionable $649 ($250 off). Walmart presently requires a Walmart Plus subscription to get nan discounted price, but everyone other tin get successful and bargain it from nan retailer’s tract astatine 5PM ET / 2PM PT today.

We haven’t seen nan value driblet this debased since March, soon aft nan newer M3 Air debuted. Since then, Walmart has go beautiful overmuch nan exclusive seller of nan M1 MacBook Air, usually offering nan 13-inch laptop from 2020 for astir $700. Even being astir 4 years aged and only offered successful its guidelines configuration pinch 256GB of retention and 8GB of RAM, nan aging MacBook remains a very bully instrumentality for mundane productivity and immoderate very ray imaginative work. Its newer peers person outclassed it pinch MagSafe chargers, newer M chips, and amended performance, but it’s difficult to hit nan M1 Air and its fantabulous artillery life / standby clip for conscionable $650.

Despite its age, nan M1 MacBook Air is group to person macOS 15 Sequoia, complete pinch caller Apple Intelligence AI features. It’s difficult to opportunity really nan first-gen M processor will grip AI tasks, particularly since cipher extracurricular of Apple has demoed these features connected a Mac aliases moreover an iPhone. Either way, nan M1 Air remained nan apical proposal successful our laptop buying guide for years, having only been overthrown by its ain nonstop successors. It still seems worthwhile if you tin nab it astatine specified a debased price.