Apple’s excellent 15-inch M3 MacBook Air sold in a unique promotion with discounts on more than one model. Amazon slashed the price of the 512GB version by 17 percent or $250, making it $1,249 for a limited time. With all four colors – midnight, silver, space gray and starlight – included in the sale, along with the 24GB RAM variant, there’s no need to settle for the base model. In fact, if your budget allows it, this is a great opportunity to get the 24GB model for $1,449 or 15 percent off the usual price.

As the proud owner of an M3 MacBook Air, I agree with everything my colleague Devindra Hardawar wrote in his . The latest Air is an incredible laptop, offering plenty of performance for all but the most demanding tasks. It also features a great keyboard and trackpad that make the laptop a pleasure to use. For those reasons and more, this is why Engadget recommends the M3 MacBook Air as the best MacBook for most people. In addition, now 16GB of RAM it is easier to recommend a base model without the usual caveats.

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For most people, the M3 MacBook Air should offer more than enough performance for their current and future needs.

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I wish the MacBook Air had more ports. In my mind, this is one SD card slot away from being a perfect computer. Apple can also offer more reasonable pricing for SSD upgrades. The current Amazon sale doesn’t address the issues, but it does make a great computer more affordable.

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