Apple hiked the M5 MacBook Air’s price. Prime Day just erased it

If you’ve been waiting for the price of Apple’s M5 MacBook Air to come back down to earth, Prime Day just delivered. The 13-inch M5 MacBook Air is $1,099 at Amazon, the first time it’s dropped back to that price since Apple hiked it in June. That’s $200 off its current $1,299 price — and effectively wipes out Apple’s steep recent increase. If you want a MacBook that can handle more than the basics but don’t want to spend MacBook Pro money, this is the one I’d zero in on. According to our friends over at Macworld, Apple didn’t exactly reinvent the wheel here… but honestly? It didn’t need to. The M5 chip delivers impressive performance, with Macworld finding it performed similarly to the pricier M5 MacBook Pro in many tests, especially single-core CPU workloads (think tasks like opening programs and general responsiveness). The Air is fanless, though. While that