Apple cuts updated MacBook Air price to $999 for students
Apple has just reduced the entry-level cost of the MacBook Air by $100 for all users and a further $100 for students. Plus it's added the True Tone technology to its display, as part of its Back to School promotion.
New MacBook Air
Alongside introducing speed-bumped MacBook Pro models and seemingly dropping the MacBook, Apple has also upgraded the MacBook Air -- and given it a considerable price cut.
The entry-level price of the Air was previously $1,199 but it is now $1,099 -- and there's a $999 option for students. Alongside the price change, the MacBook Air display now includes Apple's True Tone technology.
The previously-available $999 older generation of the MacBook Air is no longer available. The only models now on sale are the 13-inch revised Retina display versions.
The entry-level $1,099 model has a 1.6GHz dual core eighth-generation Intel Core i5 and ships with 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory and 128GN SSD storage.
The $1,299 model has the same specifications but comes with 256GB SSD storage.
"College students love the Mac -- it's the notebook they rely on from the dorm room to the classroom, and the No. 1 choice among higher education students," said Tom Boger, Apple's senior director of Mac Product Marketing in a statement.
"With a lower $999 student price for MacBook Air and the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro with faster performance, Touch Bar and Touch ID at $1,199 for students, there's never been a better time to bring a Mac to college," he continued.
As with the revised MacBook Pro models, students who buy the new MacBook Air will also receive a pair of wireless Beats headphones.
New MacBook Air
Alongside introducing speed-bumped MacBook Pro models and seemingly dropping the MacBook, Apple has also upgraded the MacBook Air -- and given it a considerable price cut.
The entry-level price of the Air was previously $1,199 but it is now $1,099 -- and there's a $999 option for students. Alongside the price change, the MacBook Air display now includes Apple's True Tone technology.
The previously-available $999 older generation of the MacBook Air is no longer available. The only models now on sale are the 13-inch revised Retina display versions.
The entry-level $1,099 model has a 1.6GHz dual core eighth-generation Intel Core i5 and ships with 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory and 128GN SSD storage.
The $1,299 model has the same specifications but comes with 256GB SSD storage.
"College students love the Mac -- it's the notebook they rely on from the dorm room to the classroom, and the No. 1 choice among higher education students," said Tom Boger, Apple's senior director of Mac Product Marketing in a statement.
"With a lower $999 student price for MacBook Air and the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro with faster performance, Touch Bar and Touch ID at $1,199 for students, there's never been a better time to bring a Mac to college," he continued.
As with the revised MacBook Pro models, students who buy the new MacBook Air will also receive a pair of wireless Beats headphones.
Comments
Still the cheap flimsy butterfly kind?
Still no USB 3 ports, right?
No thanks.
That would be progress.
I love the standalone keyboard you can buy for the imac or the mac mini, but have grown to dislike the butterfly more and more. Even the iPad keyboard case keys are nicer to type on. Sigh.
- MBP's integrated video has 128 MB of eDRAM (generally used as VRAM, but can be L4 cache)
- MBP has Iris Plus 645 integrated video, while MBA has UHD 617
- MBP has P3 color gamut
- MBP has Bluetooth 5.0
- MBP has Touch Bar
- MBP backlight goes up to 500 nits; MBA is unlisted, so I assume it is unchanged at 300 nits
- MBP has a 1.4 GHz nominal quad-core, MBA has a 1.6 GHz nominal dual-core
- MBA is 0.27 pounds (4.3 ounces) lighter
- MBA is $200 less when configured with the same RAM and SSD capacity
- MBA has better sound
$200 and a little weight for the better screen, better GPU, and eDRAM isn't too bad. I wonder what processor exactly the MBP uses. They both turbo up well above 3 GHz, so they should provide plenty of performance for most purposes. I expect the MBP to have better cooling, so it should be able to sustain that performance better.Edited to add: It isn't listed on the MacBook Air tech specs page, but when you compare the Air and the Pro, the Air is listed at 400 nits. I may have misremembered the previous model's max brightness, or it may have been increased a bit.
For $200 more, I would definitely go for the low-end MBP at this point. You get so much more not just in terms of features but performance as well.
Wrong thread dude.