Apple introduced its newest M3 MacBook Air lineup earlier this year, starting from $1099. Fortunately, you do not have to purchase from the company’s official online store and pay full price, not when Amazon gives you the same hardware for just $989. Yes, the online retailer is offering the lowest price that we have ever seen on the e-commerce website, and best of all, the discount is applied to all four colors; Midnight, Silver, Space Gray, and Starlight. Alongside the M3 chipset that touts an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU, you get 8GB of unified RAM coupled with 256GB of blazing-fast NVMe storage as part of the specifications.
It is pretty unbelievable that Apple’s M3 MacBook Air has such stellar build quality and still manages to be lightweight. You will also appreciate that this portable Mac delivers a noiseless experience, as a passive heatsink cools the Apple Silicon and the rest of the components. Two reasons why you get this model are performance and battery life. On a single charge, Apple claims that the M3 MacBook Air can last up to a whopping 18 hours, beating the competition by a significant margin.
In performance, the M3 delivers better single-core performance than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, with its multi-core capability being just a tad bit slower. However, if you fire up creative applications that professionals use daily, this chipset will tackle them effortlessly. Apple has also focused a little more on gaming this year, giving the M3 support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing while delivering better rasterization performance. In short, you can use this MacBook Air to do a little casual gaming but nothing too intensive.
You can check out the rest of the specifications on Apple’s website. However, if you want something highly portable and impresses greatly in the performance and battery life categories, the 13-inch M3 MacBook Air available for $989 is a steal. Perhaps the only limitation you will encounter is low storage, but we have a solution. Simply keep all necessary programs running on the MacBook Air, with the rest of the files offloaded to an external solid state drive. Thankfully, Amazon has several super-fast SSDs that are discounted right now, so we are confident that you will nab yourself a terrific deal here, too.
Get the 13-inch M3 MacBook Air from Amazon (8GB unified RAM, 256GB storage, four color options)
About the author: Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech's mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.
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