Amazon's Black Friday sales have been going on all month, with offers on all sorts of devices, including the 2020 Apple MacBook Air. For shoppers seeking a powerful, low-profile laptop for productivity on the go, the 2020 Apple MacBook Air is a great choice thanks to Apple's proprietary M1 chip, and it is available at a big discount.
Apple's MacBooks are a popular choice in creative fields like music production and graphic design where inspiration may strike at any time, requiring a reliable device to capture the idea quickly. For students, writers, musicians, and artists on a budget, Apple's MacBook Air line is favored as the company's lowest-cost laptop option and includes other notable features like silent passive cooling and a slimmer, lighter build for better portability compared to the bulkier models. During Amazon's Black Friday sale, the "Without AppleCare+" version of the 2020 Macbook Air is 20% off at $799. In addition, the AppleCare+ option is listed for $998 at 16% off, cutting $200 from the bundle's usual $1,198 price tag.
One of the biggest additions to come with the 2020 MacBook Air was the debut of Apple's proprietary M1 chip which was designed in-house specifically for Apple devices. Known as a system-on-a-chip, the M1 is a combination of CPU and GPU along with several other components that are usually separate on the motherboard. This design has brought incredible performance gains over Apple's previous devices, with M1 laptops crushing vastly more expensive iMac desktops from recent generations in tests. The Air M1's 8 GB of unified memory and 256 GB internal SSD makes for a surprisingly robust laptop for its size.
Besides the sale on the 2020 Apple MacBook Air, plenty of other laptops are also on sale during Amazon's Black Friday event such as the MSI GV15 Gaming Laptop, the ASUS VivoBook, and the Acer Aspire 5.
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