Apple Offloads MacBook Air via Amazon at a Near Record Low, Full Price on the Apple Store

This article features deals sourced directly by Gizmodo and produced independently of the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. Apple has not moved the price of the MacBook Air M5 by a single dollar in its official Apple Store since launch. Amazon is running a different playbook: the 13-inch model with 16GB of unified memory and 512GB SSD is currently $949, against the $1,099 Apple charges everywhere it controls its own pricing. That $150 gap on an identical product with the same warranty and the same support options is the kind of quiet arbitrage that moves fast once people notice it, and with over 8,000 units sold on Amazon last month, they have noticed. The MacBook Air has been Apple’s best-selling laptop for years because it sits at the intersection of performance, battery life, and portability without forcing compromises on any of them. The M5 generation raises every part of that baseline. The chip delivers a faster CPU and a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerators, which handle Apple Intelligence tasks locally without sending data to a server. Writing assistance, summarization, image generation, and priority notifications all ru