Black Friday is that you? The MacBook Air M2 is at its cheapest price yet

Black Friday arrives early with this hefty discount on our recommended best overall laptop to buy. For a limited time, our beloved MacBook Air M2 is on sale for $899 at Best Buy. Typically $1,099, that’s $200 in savings and the lowest outright discount we’ve seen for this Apple laptop. Earlier this year, it briefly fell to $849, but only for My Best Buy paid membership holders.

This is one of the best early Black Friday MacBook deals we’ve seen so far. 

Today’s best 13-inch MacBook M2 deal

Apple’s 2023 MacBook Air M2 has an upgraded look and enhanced performance over the M1 MacBook Air. If power, portability and endurance are important to you, the MacBook Air M2 ticks all the right boxes. The MacBook in this deal features a 13.6-inch (2560 x 1664) Liquid Retina display, Apple M2 8-core processor, 8-Core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD.

In our MacBook Air M2 review, we gave it a high rating of 4.5 out of 5-stars and backed it with our Editor’s Choice Award. In real-world tests, we were floored by the MacBook Air M2’s elegant redesign, fantastic performance and bright, colorful screen. As for battery-life, it endured 14 hours in our Laptop Mag Battery test which is pretty impressive. 

With a weight of 2.7 pounds and 0.4 inches thin, the MacBook Air M2 slips easily into a laptop backpack, messenger bag or medium sized purse. It’s lighter and thinner than the Dell XPS 13 (2.8 pounds, 0.6 inches) and HP Spectre x360 13 (2.8 pounds, 0.7 inches). It’s slightly heavier yet thinner than the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon (2.4 pounds, 0.6 inches).

Port-wise, the M2 MacBook Air supplies you with a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports, headset jack and a MagSafe charging port. For more connectivity options, consider a USB-C hub like the 5-in-1 Anker 332.

Now $200 off, the MacBook M2 is a solid investment if you want the best everyday laptop for school, work and everything else.