{"id":2551,"date":"2025-07-17T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2551\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:41:08","slug":"the-13-inch-m2-macbook-air-is-a-great-back-to-school-deal-at-just-699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2551\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13-inch M2 MacBook Air is a great back-to-school deal at just $699"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s almost back to school season, and we\u2019re starting to see some great laptop deals trickle in as a result. Walmart continues to sell the M1-powered MacBook Air for $599<\/a>, but if you want more power and a sleeker design, the 13-inch M2-powered MacBook Air starts at just $699 ($100 off) from Best Buy<\/a>. That\u2019s its best price to date, and it\u2019s available on the configuration that offers 256GB of storage and 16GB of RAM, double what\u2019s in the base M1 model.<\/p>\n

The M2-powered MacBook Air remains an excellent jack-of-all-trades, with more than enough power for work, casual gaming, and even a bit of light video editing. It also brings a few welcome upgrades over the M1 model<\/a>, including faster performance and a much better 1080p webcam that\u2019s noticeably sharper. Design-wise, it\u2019s thinner and lighter, with slimmer bezels and a brighter, slightly bigger display. It also includes an improved keyboard and a MagSafe port for charging, while retaining features like a long battery life that should last a full work day.<\/p>\n

That said, as an older laptop, you\u2019ll miss out on newer features. Apple\u2019s latest MacBook Air<\/a> runs on a more powerful chip, for one thing, can connect to two external displays as opposed to just one, and offers an even more impressive 12-megapixel Center Stage webcam. But if all you care about is buying a fast, reliable laptop for everyday work and play, the M2-MacBook Air is a great investment to make at this price.<\/p>\n

Three more worthwhile deals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s almost back to school season, and we\u2019re starting to see some great laptop deals trickle in as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,1639,3433,64,61],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deals","tag-roundup","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}