Prime Day Apple Deals 2026: M5 MacBook Air Drops $150, Watch Hits All-Time Low
Prime Day Apple Deals 2026: M5 MacBook Air Drops $150, Watch Hits All-Time Low
Publish Date: 2026-06-25 01:57:00
Source Domain: www.techtimes.com
Amazon Prime Day 2026 is live through Friday, June 26, and Apple hardware is seeing some of the deepest discounts of the year — including a confirmed all-time low on the Apple Watch Series 11 and near-record pricing on the AirPods Pro 3. The M5 MacBook Air has dropped $150, a meaningful cut on a machine that analysts say represents the best time to buy before memory prices surge later this year.
Prime Day runs exclusively for Amazon Prime members ($14.99 per month or $139 annually; a 30-day free trial qualifies). It ends Friday, June 26, at 11:59 p.m. PT — so the window to act is shrinking.
Why Buying Apple Hardware Now Is Smarter Than Waiting for Black Friday
Gartner projects combined DRAM and SSD prices to surge 130% by the end of 2026, lifting average PC prices by 17% compared to 2025 levels. That forecast has direct implications for Apple laptops and tablets, which use LPDDR5X unified memory — the same chip category being rationed toward AI data centers. If that projection holds, a “discount” this Black Friday will apply to a higher baseline price, and the net cost may still exceed what Prime Day buyers pay today.
This matters most for the MacBook Air and for AirPods, where the current pricing is real and independently verified by deal trackers.
M5 MacBook Air 13-Inch (512GB): $150 Off
Current price: $949 — regular price $1,099
The 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip is down $150 at Amazon, landing at $949 for the base 512GB, 16GB configuration. 9to5Toys confirms the discount applies across nearly all colors. This is a meaningful cut on a recently released machine — Apple launched the M5 MacBook Air in March 2026 — though deal trackers note the price briefly reached $900 in May 2026, so it is not an absolute all-time low.
What makes this particular machine worth attention is less about the raw price and more about what the M5 chip delivers in a fanless design. The M5 runs on Apple’s third-generation 3-nanometer process and features a 10-core CPU with…
