{"id":214659,"date":"2026-02-17T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/best-buy-has-a-refurbished-m1-macbook-air-512gb-on-sale-for-just-500\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:15:09","slug":"best-buy-has-a-refurbished-m1-macbook-air-512gb-on-sale-for-just-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/best-buy-has-a-refurbished-m1-macbook-air-512gb-on-sale-for-just-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy has a refurbished M1 MacBook Air (512GB) on sale for just $500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/feb-17-apple-m1-macbook-air-deal-512gb-certified-refurbished\">Best Buy has a refurbished M1 MacBook Air (512GB) on sale for just $500<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/feb-17-apple-m1-macbook-air-deal-512gb-certified-refurbished\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/feb-17-apple-m1-macbook-air-deal-512gb-certified-refurbished<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-17 12:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mashable.com\">mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SAVE $750: <\/strong>As of Feb. 17, a refurbished Apple MacBook Air (M1, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is on sale at Best Buy for just $499.99, normally $1,249.99.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                    <span class=\"text-sm font-bold\">$499.99<\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"text-xs\"> at Best Buy<\/span><br \/>\n                                                        <br \/><span class=\"text-xs font-bold line-through\">$1,249.99<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                                        <span class=\"text-xs font-bold text-red-400\"> Save $750<\/span>\n                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that Apple is launching a new low-cost MacBook this year \u2014 potentially as soon as March 4, when it&#8217;s hosting a &#8220;special experience&#8221; in select cities. The new MacBook will reportedly run on an iPhone chipset, come in several fun colors, and retail for around $600 to $700, a price point usually reserved for nice Chromebooks. But if that&#8217;s even pushing your budget, I found an Apple laptop on sale for even cheaper right now.<\/p>\n<p>Best Buy has a preowned 13-inch M1 MacBook Air marked down to $499.99 as of mid-February. That&#8217;s a whopping 60% off its suggested retail price of $1,249.99. It comes in a silver finish and features 512GB of storage, which is double the capacity of the base model. (Walmart usually sells that one for $649, though it&#8217;s currently sold out there.)<\/p>\n<p>As a &#8220;Geek Squad Certified Refurbished&#8221; unit, this MacBook is used but fixed up to work good as new. It&#8217;s covered by a 90-day parts and labor warranty.<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"font-bold text-primary-400\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"ml-1\">We&#8217;ve tested all the latest MacBooks. Here are the five to buy in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Until the new cheap MacBook (probably) launches, I&#8217;m still recommending the M1 Air as the best budget MacBook for most&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/feb-17-apple-m1-macbook-air-deal-512gb-certified-refurbished\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy has a refurbished M1 MacBook Air (512GB) on sale for just $500 https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/feb-17-apple-m1-macbook-air-deal-512gb-certified-refurbished&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/050DIRabEv5SMyolyUNi7uT\/hero-image.fill.size_1200x675.v1771344691.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-214659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-macbook-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214661,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214659\/revisions\/214661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}