The MacBook Pro is the gold standard of Apple laptops, but it’s always a bit prohibitively expensive compared to the MacBook Air range. Now, with today’s discount, that gap is even thinner.
The M4-powered MacBook Pro, which typically starts at $1,599, can now be had for just $1,347, a 16% discount that knocks a whopping $250 off its original price—and makes for probably the best laptop you can buy for under $1,500.
The M4-powered MacBook Pro is Apple’s most powerful MacBook Pro range to date. There are a few discounted models, but the one with the most significant discount is the base model which packs a regular M4 chip, 16GB of unified memory, and 512GB of storage. It technically packs the same punch computing-wise as the MacBook Air, but there are a few reasons why you might want to consider this one instead. We have a better screen, better port selection, including an HDMI port and an SD card slot, and active cooling rather than passive cooling. Since it’s thicker, you should also get better battery life than with the MacBook Air, though the MacBook Air’s battery life was already pretty good.
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One More Thing: The New MacBook Pro Has an Upgraded Display
The new MacBook Pro range was announced recently, but aside from the new M4 chips, they weren’t really shown as a groundbreaking upgrade from their predecessors. They didn’t even get their own keynote. As it turns out, these laptops do, in fact, have a massive new improvement—the display.
This laptop isn’t really discounted on the Apple Store ever, but you can find discounts every so often on retailers like Amazon. It’s one of the best prices we’ve seen for this so far, so you might want to go ahead and get yours now before this deal is gone.
