For great laptop deals, Best Buy is always a good place to look. Right now, it has one of the best MacBook deals with a chunky $500 off the Apple MacBook Air M2 with 15-inch screen. The laptop normally costs $1,899, but right now you can buy it for $1,399, saving a huge $500. The laptop might not have the latest processor, but it’s still highly competent for many, many purposes. It’ll make a great gift for a loved one, but also a useful productivity tool for you too. Here’s all you need to know.
Still featuring in our look at the best MacBooks, the Apple MacBook Air M2 is a great laptop for experienced macOS users or anyone new to the ecosystem. This particular model has the M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and up to 10-core GPU. It also has a 16-core Neural Engine for advanced machine learning tasks. Besides the CPU, the Apple MacBook Air M2 15-inch also has 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage, so it’s all set for providing everything you need.
Promising up to 20 percent faster speeds for applying image filters and up to 40 percent faster speeds for editing complex video timelines compared to previous models, the Apple MacBook Air M2 15-inch packs a punch. It still boasts up to 18 hours of battery life while its fanless design keeps things running well yet without making a noise.
Another highlight to the Apple MacBook Air M2 15-inch is its 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display with 500 nits of brightness and P3 wide color support. It’s hardly surprising that our Apple MacBook Air M2 review called it “what Apple has always wanted” thanks to its “shockingly good performance.” Our MacBook Air M2 buying guide helps you ensure you’re buying the right model.
Adding to the reasons why Apple is one of the best laptop brands, the Apple MacBook Air M2 also offers good sound. It has a three-microphone array along with a six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. A 1080p FaceTime HD webcam is great for taking calls too. Other extras include a backlit Magic Keyboard and Touch ID support, all adding up nicely to be one of the best laptops.
The Apple MacBook Air M2 normally costs $1,899. Right now, it’s enjoying a substantial discount at Best Buy, bringing it down to $1,399. The $500 discount is one not to be ignored, as this laptop is built to last a long time to come. Check it out for yourself or buy it as an awesome gift today. It’s worth every cent.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Google DeepMind's AI world model Genie 4 can now build interactive worlds that you can explore and reshape as they run. It also generates ambient sounds, music, and dialogue that respond to your actions.
The new world model builds on Genie 3 with improved realism, more natural human movement, and better simulations of real-world physics. It could eventually help with everything from game development to training robots.
Apple has an incredible talent for making me admire its products while simultaneously questioning what on earth it's thinking with the pricing. This isn't even something as bizarre as a monitor stand, but the audacity for starting a new laptop lineup from $2,000 doesn't surprise me.
The newly announced 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is just the latest to showcase this. The funny thing is, I already know that it's going to be a reliable workstation. You get a powerful new 2nm M6 processor, a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display, and up to 24 hours of battery life. We were impressed by the M5 MacBook Air, so the high-end M6 powered MacBook Pro definitely won't let us down.