Apple's 13-inch M3 MacBook Air may not look like a major refresh compared to its predecessor, but the new 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU offered some impressive performance and efficiency improvements, allowing the thin-and-light ARM-powered laptop to punch well above its weight class. Now, thanks to what appears to be an early Amazon Black Friday deal, the 13-inch M3 MacBook Air can be had at up to 18% off.
The Amazon discount applies to all the variants of the MacBook Air available through the online retailer, however the best value and most versatile configurations for most people will likely be the versions with 16 GB of RAM and 256 ($899 on Amazon) or 512 GB of storage ($1,099 on Amazon).
In our testing of the new 8-core M3 CPU in the M3 MacBook Air (laptop review here), we found it to perform admirably, beating out the likes of the AMD Ryzen 7 8840U in single-core benchmarks and trading blows with the Ryzen 7 7840U in multi-core benchmarks. Where it truly excelled, though, is battery life, managing an impressive 15 hours and 14 minutes in our web surfing test, with that result dropping to just shy of seven hours with maximum screen brightness.
The display in the MacBook Air M3 isn't one of Apple's fancy new 1,000-nit Liquid Retina XDR units, but the 60 Hz IPS LCD in the MacBook Air M3 still outperforms a vast number of competing Windows laptops, according to our testing. In our hands-on review, we found that the MacBook Air's display is capable of just over 500 nits of brightness, with 98.4% coverage of the Display P3 colour space and delta-E values of 1.4, making it capable of light colour-sensitive work, like photo or video editing.
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