M3 MacBook Air Gets Big $250 Discounts at Best Buy for Members, Plus Get OWC's Thunderbolt 3 Dock at $99.99

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Best Buy today has every model of Apple's 15-inch M3 MacBook Air on sale for new all-time low prices. These deals are only available to My Best Buy Plus and Total members, and reach $250 off each of these computers. We're also still tracking a massive $180 discount on OWC's 14-Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock today.

15-Inch M3 MacBook Air

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Starting with the 8GB RAM/256GB SSD 15-inch M3 MacBook Air, you can get this model for $1,049.00 if you're a My Best Buy Plus/Total member, down from $1,299.00. The 8GB RAM/512GB SSD model is available for $1,249.00 for members, down from $1,499.00, while the 16GB RAM/512GB model is on sale for $1,449.00, down from $1,699.00.

Note: My Best Buy Plus/Total membership required to see deals.

$250 OFF
15-inch M3 MacBook Air (8GB/256GB) for $1,049.00

$250 OFF
15-inch M3 MacBook Air (8GB/512GB) for $1,249.00

$250 OFF
15-inch M3 MacBook Air (16GB/512GB) for $1,449.00

It's worth noting that even if you have to pay the $49.99/year starting fee to join Best Buy's membership, today's MacBook Air deals are so steep you'll still come out paying around $1,099.99 for the entry-level model, which is a match for the typical best price on the computer. The same goes for the other two models as well.

OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock

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If you're looking to expand the port options on your new MacBook Air, or any other recent Mac model, OWC this week has its popular 14-Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock available for just $99.99, down from its original price of $279.99.

$180 OFF
OWC 14-Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock for $99.99

This accessory features two Thunderbolt 3 ports, five USB Type-A ports, one USB Type-C port, one Mini DisplayPort port, one gigabit Ethernet port, one S/PDIF digital audio output port, and one 3.5mm stereo audio input/output port. There are also two memory card slots for microSD and SD cards.

You can also find even more docks, hubs, external drives, and memory on sale in our main post on OWC's sale. Head to our full Deals Roundup to get caught up with all of the latest deals and discounts that we've been tracking over the past week.

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Top Rated Comments

trusso Avatar
trusso
9 months ago
Bless your heart, MacRumors. OWC must be giving you a cut if you're still pushing that Thunderbolt dock.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nathansz Avatar
nathansz
9 months ago

How did we even get to a world where "a dock/hub of ports" is almost $300?
it's not really. it's currently $99 and it seems even at that price they can't get rid of them
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Harry Haller Avatar
Harry Haller
9 months ago

GREED !!!
It's the same world where Inflation persists, for the one and sole reason;

Corporate GREED !!
So there was no corporate greed 4 years ago?
Wow, good times.
LOL
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Harry Haller Avatar
Harry Haller
9 months ago

How did we even get to a world where "a dock/hub of ports" is almost $300?
The same way we got to $30,000 economy cars.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
brofkand Avatar
brofkand
9 months ago

Even if you only bought the one product, you aren't any worse off than buying at amazon or somewhere else.
Oh but you are because next year you'll have forgotten that you bought the stupid membership and Best Buy will conveniently renew your membership automatically at the then prevailing rate.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HobeSoundDarryl Avatar
HobeSoundDarryl
9 months ago

How did we even get to a world where "a dock/hub of ports" is almost $300?
When Apple chose "thinner" too many times over consumer utility. Furthermore, by jettisoning the ports to hubs, etc but keeping the price the SAME, margin was fattened to help contribute to "another record quarter..." and margin growing from the traditional 38%-40% (already relatively sky high) to now nearing 50%.

And since some can only buy stuff sold by and/or made by Apple, Apple dongles & hubs and/or the select few third party ones sold by Apple were quick to include that fat Apple premium to also contribute to "another record quarter..."

The Apple crowd being one that just rolls over and pays any (Apple) price and pretty much then becomes an unpaid evangelist rationalizing why kicking useful ports out to dongles & hubs was some kind of good thing then appears to be a crowd ready to pay hundreds for multi-port dongles.

Opportunity knocked and sellers answered... and- as usual- it worked! People rolled right over and paid up. ???

Perhaps we will all eventually reach a point where we decide the money is worth more than "any price"... hopefully before we are forced there by running out of money.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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