As part of its Black Friday deals, Walmart is currently selling the five-year-old MacBook Air with the M1 chip for just $549 in the United States. Walmart began selling the MacBook Air with the M1 chip for $699 in March 2024.

TL;DR: Get a Grade-A refurbished 2020 MacBook Air with the M1 chip for $384.99 (reg. $999) and run your business efficiently without the premium price tag.

Macworld If you’re shopping for a MacBook this holiday season, you’ll find a few deals to save a few bucks, sometimes up to $250. But there’s one laptop for sale by a prominent retailer that looks like a deal that’s too good to be true: A MacBook Air for sale by Walmart for $549.

TL;DR: Get a near-mint MacBook Air with Apple’s powerful M1 chip for $399.99 (MSRP $999)—a smooth, silent, reliable laptop that handles everyday work, streaming, and multitasking like a pro.

With the M4 model that has a better design and faster specs costing just $150 more, most shoppers should go that route.

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The MacBook Air M1 returns as India’s best-value Mac option, now priced around ₹50,000 with bank offers during the year-end sale.

Ah, yes — the age-old question of whether an iPad can replace a laptop. It’s an experiment many people attempted and failed last year with the iPad Pro, so why try again? Especially with the smaller and cheaper iPad Air 5th-gen? Well, it has the M1 in ...