Snag a MacBook Air on sale for up to $500 off

We all struggle to find the perfect location to get work done. An ultra-portable laptop can help you take the office to your favorite coffee shop or bar (depends if you function best on caffeine or booze) and the MacBook Air is still the perfect combo of lightweight and powerful. If you need to take your work away from the office, you’ve got two choices for a great deal on a MacBook Air today: Save $200 at Amazon and $500 at B&H Photo Video. 

The first MacBook Air option is for anyone who seeks the latest model with the best hardware. At Amazon, you can save $200 off an Apple MacBook Air with 13-inch Retina display and 256GB of storage for only $1,199. That’s if you choose the silver model, but it’s the same standard price as a MacBook Air with only 128GB of storage. 

With that amount of storage, this MacBook Air is a great option if you have a lot of projects to track. Combined with the stunning Retina display, it’s a great platform if you spend time on photo editing. This model comes with an eighth-generation i5 processor and 8GB of memory, so opening and multitasking with multiple apps should be a breeze. Or course, you get a MacBook Air for the portability, and with it’s ultra-slim design and up to 12 hours of battery life you can take your workspace everywhere you go. 

While $1,199 is a great deal for the latest MacBook Air, it might still be just out of your budget. Thanks to B&H Photo Video, you can get a 2017 MacBook Air with 13-inch display for just $999. That’s $550 off the original price, which isn’t too bad for a laptop model that’s barely two years old at this point. 

You won’t find the crisp images of a Retina display in this model, but it’s still no slouch with a 1440 x 900 screen resolution with LED backlighting. And the one area this MacBook Air beats the newer model is storage space. With 512GB of storage, it will be a long time before you run out of space for most projects. It is a bit heavier at right around 3 pounds, but still offers up to 12 hours of battery life. A new MacBook Air isn’t always an impulse buy, so that’s why it’s good to have a solid second option that offers many of the best features at a more affordable price.