Apple's brand new MacBook Air M4 has already been reduced just days after launching

Apple's latest update to the MacBook Air series dropped this week with the laptop getting a modest upgrade to the M4 series of chips on Wednesday, March 12. The laptop launched at £999, but despite it only being available for two days, EE and Amazon have already dropped the price of it by up to 8%.

While 8% sounds like a small amount, it's actually a huge deal when dealing with a price tag this high. Instead of paying the full £999 for the MacBook Air M4, you can currently grab the baseline model for £916.17 at EE, or £929.97 at Amazon.

These baseline models include the upgraded M4 chip that was previously only available in the MacBook Pro laptops, which start at the much higher £1,599. Apple has also bumped up the starting amount of RAM, so you're getting 16GB by default here.

That increase in RAM opens up the laptops to Apple Intelligence features, which requires a higher RAM capacity to function properly. However, the base amount of storage still remains at 256GB, which is perfectly fine if you use web-based applications a lot but less ideal for photo and video editing.

At Amazon, there's a small caveat in that only one model colour is reduced - the brand new Sky Blue variant that's first been introduced with this line of MacBooks. However, EE is offering the deeper 8% discount on Sky Blue, Midnight and Starlight models, making the classic Silver the only model that doesn't qualify.

It's extremely rare to see any of Apple's products get such a deep discount so early into its life-cycle, with their products usually holding their value for a good year. Prices normally start to drop when a new replacement product is around the corner, not two days after launch.

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