{"id":1908560,"date":"2026-04-27T16:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1908560"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:12:30","slug":"the-m5-macbook-air-is-just-99-cents-away-from-its-lowest-ever-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1908560","title":{"rendered":"The M5 MacBook Air is just 99 cents away from its lowest ever price"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The M5 MacBook Air is the best MacBook for most people, and it’s just 99 cents away from its lowest price ever<\/h1>\n
That puts it under $1,000.<\/div>\n
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\n Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls through a lot of dating apps, and rotates through a lot of different headphones. In addition to testing out and rounding up the best products, she also covers deals for Mashable, paying an especially obsessive amount of attention to Apple deals and prices. That knowledge comes in handy when she’s covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday, which she’s now done for three years at Mashable.\n <\/div>\n

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Save $149.01: <\/strong>Amazon has the M5 Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)<\/a> nearly down to its lowest price ever as of April 27. At $949.99, this 14% discount puts it just 99 cents away from the record low of $949, and a good deal cheaper than the $1,099 list price.<\/p>\n

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The MacBook Neo<\/a> is an incredibly affordable MacBook, but its not necessarily the absolute best value for everyone, especially when a good deal strikes elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Mashable’s laptop expert Haley Henschel determined the M5 MacBook Air<\/a> to be a better value, and as of April 27, it’s getting the deal treatment at Amazon. Specifically, you can grab the 13-inch M5 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD<\/a> for $949.99, putting it nearly back down to its record low price of $949 even. All told, that’s $149.01 cheaper than its list price. And <\/em>the deal is available in all four colorways.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:<\/span>We’ve tested over 30 laptops in the past year. Here are the 12 best for 2026.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

So what makes the M5 Air such a great value? For starters, Apple bumped the starting storage to 512GB over the 256GB of the M4 Air. Yes, they also bumped up the price of the M5 Air by $100, but its still $100 cheaper than the M4 model with the same amount of storage, actually making the newer model a better value. While Mashable tested the 15-inch version<\/a>, but Henschel still recommends the 13-inch model as a slightly cheaper, more portable option, with the main trade off being two less speakers and GPU cores.<\/p>\n

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