MacBook Air With M1 Chip is Now Just $549 at Walmart

As part of its Black Friday deals, Walmart is currently selling the five-year-old MacBook Air with the M1 chip for just $549 in the United States.

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Walmart began selling the MacBook Air with the M1 chip for $699 in March 2024. The price later dropped to $649, then to $599, and now to $549.

Apple first released the MacBook Air with the M1 chip in November 2020, as one of the first Macs with an Apple silicon chip, instead of an Intel processor. The configuration being sold for $549 includes 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM, with Silver and Space Gray color options available. Gold is currently sold out.

These are new MacBook Air units — not refurbished or open box.

Apple discontinued the MacBook Air with the M1 chip last year, after it launched models with the M3 chip, and it has since updated the MacBook Air with the M4 chip. Prior to being discontinued, the model with the M1 chip was being sold for a starting price of $999 brand new, but Amazon sometimes offered it on sale for $899 or less.

While the MacBook Air with the M1 chip is five years old, it is still a capable machine for many average day-to-day tasks. However, it has an older design, and it is the oldest MacBook Air model compatible with the current macOS 26 (aka macOS Tahoe) operating system, so there is a chance that it will not support macOS 27 next year.

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Top Rated Comments

sw1tcher Avatar
10 hours ago at 07:06 am
8GB memory and 256GB storage is not a good deal. Spend the extra $100 and get the M2 with 16GB / 256GB from Best Buy ('https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/get-the-m2-macbook-air-for-just-649-during-best-buys-black-friday-sale.2471828/'). Or better yet, a M4 with 16GB / 256GB for $749
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CharlesShaw Avatar
10 hours ago at 07:06 am

And it will stop getting new OS releases in what, a year, perhaps two?
At that price, someone might simply wish to enjoy the classic wedge design and no notch for a couple years. Life is short.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Elwe Avatar
9 hours ago at 08:26 am
Options, people. Options. While many reading this site see this as a poor value given the options "just" one or two hundred dollars more, there are many people for who that amount of money is significant; and for who this model matches the planned use well enough.

What I think some posters here want may (or may not) be served by Apple's rumor new MacBook model. But even that new entry hasn't been rumored to be $549.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Thisismattwade Avatar
9 hours ago at 08:20 am
Still love my (base) M1 MBA.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
orangeadrenaline Avatar
10 hours ago at 06:56 am
M4 are regularly $750. Dumb to buy this old.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jarman92 Avatar
10 hours ago at 07:24 am

Still an awful value for a 5 year old design with a soon to be 5 generation old processor.
People love the design (for some reason) and that 5 generation old processor still beats the pants off probably 90% of the PC laptop market.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)