One of the lowest prices of the season is available at Amazon, as the retailer has dropped Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air to $949 for Black Friday.

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TL;DR: Get a Grade A refurbished 2024 MacBook Air with the fast M3 chip, a Liquid Retina display, and 18-hour battery life for $1,009.99 (MSRP $1,299) while stock lasts. Trying to get a hold of premium Apple tech on sale before the holiday rush wipes out inventory? This is your moment.

The lowest-priced MacBook at the Apple Store is the $999 MacBook Air, which you can find at third-party retailers such as Amazon for $749. But at $200 less than even that sale price, that $549 price tag for a brand-new MacBook Air is unprecedented and hard to resist, especially at a time when it feels like prices are going up for everything.

The wait for a pocket-friendly MacBook is apparently not going to be a long one. But the real surprise would to the cuts Apple makes to keep it in the same bracket as the iPad Air’s hunting ground. The Latest Tech News,

While sales trends have been shifting, the best bargains may still be from Black Friday through Cyber Monday. That may be especially true for big ticket items, seasonal merchandise and the latest trendy products.