Best MacBook deal: Save $200 on the 15-inch Apple M4 MacBook Air

SAVE $200: As of Oct. 28, the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air with the M4 chip and 256GB of storage is back down to its best price ever of $999. That's $200 or 17% off its list price.

While we love the 13-inch M4 MacBook Air for students and bargain shoppers, we think the 15-inch model is really Apple's sweet spot for most people. Even at full cost, Mashable's Stan Schroeder labeled it "the best-buy Apple laptop, period." But we're certainly not going to argue with a $200 cheaper price tag.

As of Oct. 28, the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air with the M4 chip, 16GB RAM, and 256GB of storage is back on sale once again for just $999 in every color variety. That's 17% or $200 off its list price and aligns with its best price on record in most colors. The sky blue option very briefly dipped even lower to $969 once before, but it's the only color to ever see that extreme price drop.

The 15-inch Air isn't just our favorite MacBook for most people. It's also one of our favorite laptops of 2025, period. As Mashable's resident laptop expert Haley Henschel put it, "it's beautiful, long-lasting, unexpectedly peppy, and priced very fairly, making it super easy to recommend for basically anyone wanting a near-perfect ultraportable." Its power alone is seriously impressive. It notched a multi-core score of 14,992 in Geekbench 6's CPU test, our primary speed benchmark. That's less than two percent slower than the M4 MacBook Pro (and about 17 percent slower than the M5 Pro). For a non-Pro device, that's pretty wild. Our reviewer called it "almost overkill."

Besides the excellent price and processing power, the M4 Air also includes an improved 12MP FaceTime camera and open-lid support for two external displays, so you can still use its own screen when it's hooked up to monitors.

For creative professionals running intense editing apps and software regularly, we still recommend the MacBook Pro. For everyone else, we say go with the 15-inch M4 MacBook Air — especially while it's on sale for $200 off.