M5 MacBook Air drops $200 at Amazon, Best Buy and B&H Photo

Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip is selling for $1,099.99, according to The Verge. That is $200 below its regular price. The base model has 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage. It sold for roughly $950 to $1,000 shortly after its May launch, but discounts have been rare since July, when Apple raised prices on both Air sizes. The Verge says this is the second time it has seen this cut. Amazon, Best Buy and B&H Photo are all offering it across the colour options.

The 15-inch MacBook Air is also $200 off at the same three retailers. The Verge lists its 16GB and 512GB version at $1,299.99. The larger model has a bigger screen, six speakers instead of four, and two extra GPU cores in the M5 chip.

9to5Toys reports larger cuts on higher-storage models. It lists the 13-inch 16GB and 1TB model at $1,349, down $250 from $1,599, and the 15-inch 16GB and 1TB model at $1,549, down $250 from $1,799. Both are sold by Amazon. It describes the 13-inch 16GB and 512GB model at $1,099, from a regular price of $1,299, as the lowest price it has tracked on that version in months. The site presents these offers as part of early Black Friday sales.

Both outlets describe the prices as temporary. Neither says how long they will last, and neither reports stock levels.