Well, here’s one we were not expecting on the Monday of Black Friday Week — a massive unannounced deal from Apple, of all companies. The 2025 M4 MacBook Air is the shocking subject of a huge 25% off deal at Amazon, bringing it to an all-time low price of just $749. With Apple’s laptop fleet of brand-new M5 models soaking up most of the attention, they’ve decided to sneak in a killer deal on a killer laptop.
Make no mistake, the M4 chip makes this MacBook Air a beast for productivity, streaming, multitasking, or pretty much anything else you ask of it. The M4 was built specifically to run Apple Intelligence, and the MacBook Air has all of Apple’s industry-best features like the brilliant 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display and 18 hours of battery life. It’s a perfect match for an iPhone, with the real-time mirroring feature that lets you answer calls and texts without having to break stride to reach for your phone, and it’s a seamless pairing with any of the AirPods models.
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Not New, But Definitely Not Old
The M4 chip that drives the impeccable performance of the MacBook Air was Apple’s state-of-the-art processor and possibly the best anywhere in the tech world until the M5 dropped just this past October. So you don’t exactly need a time machine to hearken back to the days when the M4 ruled the roost, and the debut of the M5 does not detract one bit from its performance.
The M4 chip is twice as fast as the M1, and a mind-blowing 23 times faster than the last of Apple’s Intel processors. The Neural Engine that’s built into the M4 not only makes Apple Intelligence possible, it makes it run with blazing speed. There’s sufficient processing power for the Air to power up to two external displays with the same fast, fluid performance even for demanding tasks like video editing.
Multimedia Superstar
The MacBooks have long been among the very best laptops for connecting remotely for work or pleasure, and the M4 MacBook Air is a great example. The 12MP Center Stage camera ensures you’ll show up on the other end of a video call looking your best, and the MacBook Air’s three built-in mics and four speakers with Spatial Audio bolster a pro-level connection. Having Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 connections eliminates any online glitch-outs to keep the conversation rolling without interruption.
The MacBook Air isn’t one of those laptops with a million ports and jacks for external devices, but what it has — two Thunderbolt 4 ports in addition to its MagSafe charging port and a headphone jack — are top-notch for connecting external monitors or external storage or charging devices.
For a Monday deal during Black Friday Week, this one’s a shocker. Apple’s 13-inch M4 MacBook Air shedding $250 from its price at Amazon and landing at a record-low $749 was most definitely not on our Bingo card, but it’s real, and it’s potentially one that could cause a supply-draining stampede. We would not recommend sleeping on this one too long.
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