How is the M2 MacBook Air this cheap? Get $150 off one of our favorite laptops right now

The Apple MacBook Air M2 is one of the best laptops you can buy, and you can get $150 off it right now — plunging it deep below that $1,000 threshold.

You may remember we spoke about how happy we were to see this laptop at $979 yesterday. So imagine how surprised we were to see this stellar system drop even lower in price. Down to its lowest, in fact, of just $949 (no that is not a typo).

You can get the Apple 13.6-inch MacBook Air M2 for $949.99 at B&H in its Space Gray color variation, boasting the powerful M2 processor with 8GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD storage, 13.6-inch 2,560 x 1,664-pixel Liquid Retina Display and an 8-core M2 GPU. Not only is this one of the best Prime Day deals you can get, but it’s also one of the best top-rated laptop deals out there right now.

Beyond just how these specs sound on paper, our Editor-in-Chief Sherri L. Smith awarded the MacBook Air M2 with the Laptop Mag Editor’s Choice award, alongside a 4.5/5 score. We believe that the laptop is “nearly perfect,” and although we felt that it was a bit pricey at its initial launch cost, this drop down to $979 makes it more than worth the entry price.

On the Geekbench 5.4 overall performance test, the Air M2’s multi-core score of 8,919 solidified itself far above the 6,054 premium laptop average. Not only is this an amazing score, but it destroyed competition like the Slim 7 Carbon (AMD Ryzen 7 5800 CPU, 6,241).

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