Apple might be updating several Macs with M4 chips as early as next week, but it’s looking like the MacBook Air lineup might not join the party until early 2025. That said, if you’re on an older MacBook and can’t wait to upgrade, there have been few better times than now. The base 13-inch M2 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage has fallen to an all-time low of $699.9 ($200 off) at Amazon, while the step-up 512GB model is down to $949.99 ($249 off) thanks to an on-page coupon. You can even grab the M3 MacBook Air 13 at Amazon starting at $899 ($200 off), which is $50 shy of its all-time low.
Although the M1 Air was technically discontinued earlier this year, we still considered its $699 price a great value for routine computing. That being said, you should certainly skip that for the M2 upgrade if that’s all you can afford. The M2 Air offers a thinner design and a notched display that’s a touch brighter at 500 nits. It also features an improved 1080p webcam, a better keyboard, and a resurrected MagSafe port for charging, freeing up the second of its two USB-C / Thunderbolt ports. It’s even slated to receive a number of AI-powered features via Apple Intelligence, which will arrive later in October via a software update.
The M3 MacBook Air from earlier this year isn’t a massive upgrade over the M2. It has a slightly faster processor with Wi-Fi 6E radios, faster SSD transfers, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and AV1 video decoding. If those changes don’t benefit your experience in any meaningful way, you’ll likely get by just fine with the M2 model.