{"id":870713,"date":"2026-10-04T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870713\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:04:08","slug":"the-macbook-air-m5-is-200-off-for-the-first-time-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870713\/","title":{"rendered":"The MacBook Air M5 is $200 off for the first time in months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Amazon\u2019s October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Apple\u2019s June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip and 512GB of storage is on sale for $1,099 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GR1JTFP8??tag=theverge02-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>. That\u2019s a more palatable price for a machine that\u2019s significantly faster than Apple\u2019s $699 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/891741\/apple-macbook-neo-a18-pro-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Neo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The 15-inch version, also with 512GB of storage, is $1,299 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GR1GC1D6?tag=theverge02-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> (was $1,499). In addition to the larger screen, it has two additional speakers, for a total of six, and two additional GPU cores for better overall graphical performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The latest update to Apple\u2019s midrange laptop includes a noticeable improvement to the speed of both the processor and storage. Even without flashy new features compared to the last-gen model, it\u2019s still one of our favorite laptops, thanks to its long battery life, bright screen, and excellent speakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Apple\u2019s June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[517,167,166,169,172,74,148099],"class_list":["post-870713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-deals","tag-gadgets","tag-prime-day","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-verge-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}