Take Up to $200 off Apple's 2017 MacBook Air Laptops

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Hot on the heels of  the latest MacBook Air rumors, Best Buy is slashing the price of Apple's entry-level MacBook Air line.

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For a limited time, the brick-and-mortar retailer is taking up to $200 off Apple's MacBook Airs with prices starting at $849.99 ($150 under Apple's price).

If you want the cheapest Mac possible, you'll want the 13.3-inch MacBook Air with 128GB SSD. The $899.99 laptop notched a respectable score of 6,438 on the Geekbench 4 general performance test. That's close to the 6,565 category average. The machine packs a 1.8GHz Core i5-5350U processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD.

For a better value, we recommend the 256GB model, which is $200 under Apple's price and offers a more reasonable amount of storage. The 512GB model is also $200 off if you require even more storage.

The entire MacBook Air family features a 1440 x 900-pixel display, comfortable keyboard and trackpad, and a battery life of 10 hours and 26 minutes.

Although the its 2017 revamp still leaves a lot to be desired, the MacBook Air is still a solid student laptop if you can live with its limitations.

Louis Ramirez

Louis wrote about some of the best tech deals for Laptop Mag. With a keen eye for discounts and the ability to tell a great deal apart from a fake sale, Louis covered deals on laptops, tablets, and other gadgets, as well as seasonal sales. He spotted some of the best MacBook deals and reported on all the best Prime Day and Black Friday sales at the time. He's now the deals editor-in-chief at Tom's Guide, digging for sales on 4K TVs, Apple devices, streaming services, and more.