{"id":118059,"date":"2024-10-25T03:48:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118059"},"modified":"2024-10-25T03:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:48:49","slug":"the-13-inch-macbook-air-m2-is-a-great-value-at-its-current-sale-price-of-699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118059","title":{"rendered":"The 13-inch MacBook Air M2 is a great value at its current sale price of $699"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Apple might be updating several Macs with M4 chips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/24\/24266448\/apple-mac-announcements-october-2024\">as early as next week<\/a>, but it\u2019s looking like the MacBook Air lineup might not join the party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/23\/24277876\/apple-m4-macbook-air-update\">until early 2025<\/a>. That said, if you\u2019re on an older MacBook and can\u2019t wait to upgrade, there have been few better times than now. The base <strong>13-inch M2 MacBook Air<\/strong> with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage has fallen to an all-time low of $699.9 ($200 off) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0B3C7MJX3?tag=theverge02-20\">Amazon<\/a>, while the step-up 512GB model is down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0B3C5H787?tag=theverge02-20\">$949.99<\/a> ($249 off) thanks to an on-page coupon. You can even grab the <strong>M3 MacBook Air 13<\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apple-2024-MacBook-13-inch-Laptop\/dp\/B0CX23V2ZK?tag=theverge02-20\">Amazon<\/a> starting at $899 ($200 off), which is $50 shy of its all-time low.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/21569603\/apple-macbook-air-m1-review-price-specs-features-arm-silicon\">M1 Air<\/a> was technically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/3\/4\/24090015\/apple-discontinues-m1-macbook-air-leaving-behind-its-iconic-wedge-design\">discontinued<\/a> earlier this year, we still considered its $699 price a great value for routine computing. That being said, you should certainly skip that for the M2 upgrade if that\u2019s all you can afford. The M2 Air offers a thinner design and a notched display that\u2019s a touch brighter at 500 nits. It also features an improved 1080p webcam, a better keyboard, and a resurrected MagSafe port for charging, freeing up the second of its two USB-C \/ Thunderbolt ports. It\u2019s even slated to receive a number of AI-powered features via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/10\/24175405\/wwdc-apple-ai-news-features-ios-18-macos-15-iphone-ipad-mac\">Apple Intelligence<\/a>, which will arrive later in October via a software update.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24114684\/apple-macbook-air-m3-13-15-inch-2024-review\">M3 MacBook Air<\/a> from earlier this year isn\u2019t a massive upgrade over the M2. It has a slightly faster processor with Wi-Fi 6E radios, faster SSD transfers, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and AV1 video decoding. If those changes don\u2019t benefit your experience in any meaningful way, you\u2019ll likely get by just fine with the M2 model.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/24\/24277746\/apple-macbook-air-m2-m3-google-pixel-tablet-deal-sale\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple might be updating several Macs with M4 chips as early as next week, but it\u2019s looking like the MacBook Air lineup might not join the party until early 2025. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118059\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}