Back-to-school bargain: the best MacBook students can buy is $200 off at Best Buy

Apple's MacBook Air M4 has been crowned TechRadar's best laptop of the year, and just in time for the new school season, the 13-inch model is on sale for only $799 (originally $999) at Best Buy. That's a $200 discount and the best price you can find for the powerful MacBook. It's also at Amazon for $799 if you'd prefer to shop there.

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Released in March of this year, the MacBook Air M4 features a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display and a super-lightweight design, which is perfect for students on the go. The MacBook packs Apple's powerful M4 chip, which combines a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU, resulting in exceptional speed in everything you do. The latest MacBook Air also features Apple Intelligence, a 12MP Center Stage camera, a seven-speaker sound system, and up to 18 hours of battery life.

The 13-inch MacBook Air M4 is the perfect laptop for students, thanks to its compact size and its ability to handle any task you throw at it. Now back to its lowest-ever price, today's discount from Best Buy is the best deal available and an excellent price for an Apple laptop with an M4 chip.

Today's best back-to-school MacBook deal

Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (M4): was $999 now $799 at Best Buy

Display - 13.6 inches
Processor - Apple M4
RAM - 16GB
Storage - 256GB

<p>The MacBook Air 13-inch (M4) is the newest version of Apple's popular laptop and it's now down to a great price at Best Buy. You get a great-looking 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, while the boost to 16GB of RAM keeps all your programs running smoothly. It's just a shame Apple still insists on only 256GB of storage as standard, which feels a little miserly in 2025. Nevertheless, this is still one of the best laptops you can buy if you need a performance powerhouse for productivity and creative tasks – especially after this $200 discount.<p><strong>Price check: <a href="https://target.georiot.com/Proxy.ashx?tsid=8428&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FApple-2025-MacBook-13-inch-Laptop%2Fdp%2FB0DZD9S5GC%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20">Amazon for $799

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Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (M2, 2022): was $799 now $699 at Best Buy

Display - 13.6 inches
Processor - Apple M2
RAM - 16GB
Storage - 256GB

<p>Newer M3 and M4 models are now available, but this is an unbelievable price for the MacBook Air 13-inch with an M2 chip. Sure, that's an older version, but this is still an incredibly powerful laptop for those needing a premium powerhouse for school and productivity, coding, or creative work. You also get double the amount of RAM at 16GB, although the 256GB of storage feels a little paltry in 2025. Still, we rated it highly in our <a href="https://todaymegadeals.shop/reviews/apple-macbook-air-m2-2022">MacBook Air M2 review, thanks to the stylish design, clear display, impressive performance, and long 18-hour battery life.

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Apple MacBook Air 15-inch (M3, 2024): was $1,099 now $999 at Best Buy

Display - 15 inches
Processor - Apple M3
RAM - 16GB
Storage - 256GB

<p>It may essentially be just a larger version of the MacBook Air 13-inch, but if that's what you want, then that's what you get – and it's now reduced to its lowest-ever price at Best Buy. Our <a href="https://todaymegadeals.shop/computing/macbooks/apple-macbook-air-15-inch-m3">MacBook Air 15-inch review praised the display, performance, design and speaker array, although we did think the jump in size hurt one of the MacBook Air's key selling points – its portability. Nevertheless, this is still an impressive laptop that was awarded a full five stars.

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