{"id":232063,"date":"2026-04-07T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/apples-most-affordable-new-midnight-m5-macbook-air-just-dropped-to-all-time-low-at-949-150-off\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:10:37","slug":"apples-most-affordable-new-midnight-m5-macbook-air-just-dropped-to-all-time-low-at-949-150-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/apples-most-affordable-new-midnight-m5-macbook-air-just-dropped-to-all-time-low-at-949-150-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s most affordable new Midnight M5 MacBook Air just dropped to all-time low at $949 ($150 off)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5toys.com\/2026\/04\/07\/apple-new-midnight-m5-macbook-air-best-price\/\">Apple&#8217;s most affordable new Midnight M5 MacBook Air just dropped to all-time low at $949 ($150 off)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5toys.com\/2026\/04\/07\/apple-new-midnight-m5-macbook-air-best-price\/\">https:\/\/9to5toys.com\/2026\/04\/07\/apple-new-midnight-m5-macbook-air-best-price\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-07 05:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5toys.com\">9to5toys.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"product-deal-tag__savings-amount\">All-time low<\/span><span class=\"product-deal-tag__separator\">\/<\/span><span class=\"product-deal-tag__price\">$150 off<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is delivering the best prices yet on the brand new M5 MacBook Air this week. This morning, it is also delivering a new all-time low on the most affordable 13-inch model in the Midnight finish with 16GB of RAM and the 512GB SSD at <strong>$150 off<\/strong> the list price.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-1203020\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is now offering the new 13-inch M5 MacBook Air with a 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage at <strong>$949 shipped<\/strong>. Regularly $1,099, this is a straight up $150 off the list price and the best we have ever tracked on this model.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You will now find all four colors of this configuration \u2013 the most affordable one you can buy \u2013 down at $949 or $949.99. We saw the Silver, Sky Blue, and Starlight down this low yesterday, but we were still waiting on the Midnight black.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We did catch the Midnight dropping this low on Sunday, but it only lasted a couple hours before jumping back up to $1,050.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As we detailed previously, Apple upped the storage tiers on the new M5 MacBook Air lineup, starting things off with a 512GB SSD instead of the old 256GB model. This has also raised the price of the entry model, but with today\u2019s new all-time low we are getting a solid discount to join deals across the entire lot at up to $150 off this week:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>13-inch M5 MacBook Air 16GB\/512GB from <strong>$949<\/strong> (Reg. $1,099)<\/li>\n<li>13-inch M5 MacBook Air 16GB\/1TB from <strong>$1,150<\/strong> (Reg. $1,299)<\/li>\n<li>13-inch M5 MacBook Air 24GB\/1TB from <strong>$1,350<\/strong> (Reg. $1,499)<\/li>\n<li>15-inch M5 MacBook Air 16GB\/512GB from <strong>$1,150<\/strong> (Reg. $1,299)<\/li>\n<li>15-inch M5 MacBook Air 16GB\/1TB from <strong>$1,349<\/strong> (Reg. $1,499)<\/li>\n<li>15-inch M5 MacBook Air 24GB\/1TB from <strong>$1,550<\/strong> (Reg. $1,699)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-m5-macbook-air-features\">M5 MacBook Air features:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MIGHT TAKES FLIGHT \u2014 MacBook Air with the M5 chip packs blazing speed and powerful AI capabilities into an incredibly portable design. With Apple Intelligence,* up to 18 hours of battery life,* and fast SSD storage starting from 512GB,* you can work, create, and play anywhere life takes you.<\/li>\n<li>SUPERCHARGED BY M5 \u2014 With its faster CPU&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5toys.com\/2026\/04\/07\/apple-new-midnight-m5-macbook-air-best-price\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s most affordable new Midnight M5 MacBook Air just dropped to all-time low at $949&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5toys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/M4-MacBook-Air-16GB.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-232063","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\/232063"}],"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=232063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232065,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232063\/revisions\/232065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}