Amazon is selling the 13-inch MacBook Air with Apple's M5 chip and a 1TB SSD for $1,399, a $200 cut on the 16GB memory configuration, according to AppleInsider, which spotted the discount over the weekend.
A step up, the 24GB RAM version with the same 1TB drive has also dropped $200, to $1,599, per both AppleInsider and Wccftech. Both retailers list the units in stock and ready to ship, which matters with the holidays approaching and stock on popular configurations prone to running thin.
The pricing isn't new territory. AppleInsider notes it matches what Amazon charged during Prime Big Deal Days earlier in October, so this is less a fresh markdown than a return to that same floor.
Either way, it undercuts Apple's own store, where these specs typically carry a premium for the doubled storage and bumped memory over the base model.
What you're buying hasn't changed. The M5 chip packs a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, enough headroom for Lightroom libraries, 4K edits, and the kind of on-device Apple Intelligence tasks that lean harder on memory than older Mac chips did. Because the unified RAM is soldered in and can't be upgraded later, picking 24GB now is the only way to get it on this machine, period.
The 1TB SSD solves a different problem. Photographers, students, and anyone juggling large media files tend to outgrow 256GB or 512GB within a year or two, and a full terabyte means fewer trips to an external drive or a cloud subscription just to keep projects local.
The rest of the package is unchanged from the standard M5 Air: a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, a 12MP Center Stage camera, a four-speaker system with spatial audio, two Thunderbolt ports, MagSafe charging, a headphone jack, and Touch ID. Apple rates battery life at up to 18 hours, and the fanless body weighs roughly 2.7 pounds, light enough to carry around all day without the laptop ever needing to run its (nonexistent) fan.
Neither AppleInsider nor Wccftech say how long Amazon will hold these prices, and deals like this tend to move with inventory rather than a fixed end date. Shoppers weighing the base 16GB/256GB configuration against the discounted 1TB models are getting a meaningfully larger drive for not much more money right now, which is really the whole pitch.
DDFiled by The Deals Desk
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