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 selling the M1 MacBook Air for conscionable $649 ($250 off). Walmart presently requires a Walmart Plus subscription to get the discounted price, but everyone other tin get successful and bargain it from the retailer’s tract astatine 5PM ET / 2PM PT today.

We haven’t seen the terms driblet this debased since March, soon aft the newer M3 Air debuted. Since then, Walmart has go beauteous overmuch the exclusive seller of the M1 MacBook Air, usually offering the 13-inch laptop from 2020 for astir $700. Even being astir 4 years aged and lone offered successful its basal configuration with 256GB of retention and 8GB of RAM, the aging MacBook remains a precise bully instrumentality for mundane productivity and immoderate precise airy originative work. Its newer peers person outclassed it with MagSafe chargers, newer M chips, and amended performance, but it’s hard to bushed the M1 Air and its fantabulous artillery beingness / standby clip for conscionable $650.

Despite its age, the M1 MacBook Air is acceptable to person macOS 15 Sequoia, implicit with caller Apple Intelligence AI features. It’s hard to accidental however the first-gen M processor volition grip AI tasks, particularly since cipher extracurricular of Apple has demoed these features connected a Mac oregon adjacent an iPhone. Either way, the M1 Air remained the apical proposal successful our laptop buying guide for years, having lone been overthrown by its ain nonstop successors. It inactive seems worthwhile if you tin nab it astatine specified a debased price.