Wow! MacBook Air M2 just crashed to $999 at Amazon

The first Memorial Day sales of the season are slowly starting to appear. Of all the preview deals I’ve seen today and this past weekend — here’s one I recommend you take advantage of right now, as I predict it’ll sell out/or expire before the day ends.

For a limited time, you can get the MacBook Air (M2/256GB) on sale for just $999 at Amazon (opens in new tab). That’s $200 off and the lowest price we’ve ever seen for the M2 Air. Simply put, it’s one of the best MacBook deals you can get. 

To be fair, I’ve seen the MacBook Air M2 sell for this price before. But it was a very rare and fast-moving deal. Could it get cheaper on Memorial Day proper? I doubt it. Instead, I think it might sell for its normal sale price of $1,049, which makes today’s deal the one to grab. 

The MacBook Air M2 is the best laptop on the market right now. With incredible performance, great battery life and a beautiful display, it has pretty much everything you could want.

Despite being super portable, it measures 0.44 inches thick and weighs 2.7 pounds, the MacBook Air M2 packs some serious power. Using Apple’s M2 chip, we were able to transcode a 4K video in 7 minutes, 52 seconds. This beat the old MacBook Air M1’s time of 9 minutes, 15 seconds.

You’ll also be able to use the MacBook Air M2 for a long time before you have to charge it. We got 14 hours, 6 minutes of battery life out of our unit, which blows competing laptops like the Dell XPS 13 OLED (8 hours) out of the water.

Also worth mentioning are the MacBook Air M2’s two Thunderbolt 4/USB-C ports, MagSafe charging port and excellent 1080p webcam.

That said, the MacBook Air M2 isn’t all perfect. The notch in the display is a little distracting, and there’s only support for one external monitor. But for many people, these issues won’t be deal breakers, especially not at $200 off its regular price.