In today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break, the best MacBook deals of the year roll on with the 24GB M4 MacBook Air at $200 off the list prices (16GB models from $799) and the 1TB M4 MacBook Pro at $300 off to deliver a new Amazon all-time low. We also have Apple Watch Ultra 2 in both the black and natural treatments at $150 off to match the best price of 2025 alongside some discounts on new accessories from Anker and the brand new Burton Goods Leather Techfolio Cord Organizer. Everything awaits below.
Apple’s upgraded 24GB M4 MacBook Air hits the best prices of the summer at $200 off (All colors)
Whether you’re heading back to school or just looking to upgrade your MacBook, the summer deals are flying right now on Apple’s latest and most affordable current-generation M4 models. As we detailed recently, with the particularly notable discounts we are tracking on the current lineup right now, this week is delivering the very best MacBook deals of the year, Prime Day included, on the more affordable mid-range models – basically everything but the M4 Pro and M4 Max Pros. While there’s nothing quite like landing a new M4 MacBook Air that just launched not 5 months ago down at $799, for me personally, the 24GB Air at $200 off is where it’s at.
Sure, for many folks (myself included), the 16GB of RAM on the base model at $799 will do just fine. If you’re just getting some work done, be it at school or the office, it is well powerful enough for most average word processing, web browsing, and video conferencing tasks, and even for some of the more involved apps you might be making use of.
The 256GB of storage on the base models leaves a bit to be desired for me, but you can always just leverage some external storage and the upgraded 16GB/512GB model is also $200 off right now as well.
All of that said, and despite the fact that the storage options are far less of a concern for me than the RAM, it is really the 24GB/512GB model that seems to be the best investment for me – it has also become increasingly more popular among readers this generation too.
Again, I can certainly make do with the 16GB of RAM, but everything is just a little more snappy when the going gets tough – when I have way too many tabs open, or I’m multitasking on several projects with heavy spreadsheets and presentation files with graphics, with Pixelmator running the whole time, and so on and so forth.
It, as I have mentioned previously more than a few times, also feels like a more future proof investment. There is after all a reason the base RAM count does, albeit slowly, keep going up, and the 24GB just makes it feel like the machine will last much longer – maybe even years longer – than the 8GB and 16GB models used to for me.
Either way, the best deals to date are now ready and waiting across the M4 MacBook Air lineup, with this week’s sale delivering the very first chance to grab any configuration in any color at $200 off the list price.
All M4 MacBook Air models are now $200 off at Amazon with deals from $799
Apple’s 24GB M4 MacBook Pro with the 1TB SSD now at the $1,699 Amazon all-time low ($300 off)
The back to school MacBook deals are soaring this week, with the best prices to date on most of the 2025 MacBook Air models and the least pricey MacBook Pro variants as well. But for folks looking for an elevated and far more powerful experience without spending M4 Pro/Max money, the 24GB M4 MacBook Pro is now sitting down at the best price we have ever tracked on Amazon at $300 off the list price.
Amazon is now offering Apple’s latest M4 MacBook Pro with the 14-inch Liquid Retina XDR Display with the 24GB RAM upgrade and the 1TB internal SSD down at $1,699 shipped. This includes both the Space Black and Silver models that carry a $1,999 list price at Apple. You’re looking at $300 in savings and new Amazon all-time lows on both models.
You can indeed score a M4 MacBook Pro base model down at $1,299 right now – also $300 off and a new Amazon low – but for folks looking for the upgraded experience, there has never been a better time to buy the 24GB/1TB setup (if saving money is your goal anyway).
I think the first question most folks should ask themselves, and something I recommend to friends and family, once you have decided you’re going for something in this price range is this: Do I buy the upgraded M4 MacBook Pro or spend the same amount on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro with less storage?
Well, as of right now you will not find an M4 Pro machine down as low as $1,699. The 24GB model with half the storage though is at $1,785 shipped on Amazon and has dropped as low as the deal we are featuring above in the past. When that might happen again is unknown, but based on our extensive experience with these things, it’s almost certain it will again before the year is out.
So, if you’re willing to wait, the question remains: 24GB/512GB with the more powerful pro chip or 24GB/1TB with M4 standard?
For me, the storage isn’t all that important here, so I might opt for the M4 Pro machine despite the fact that I don’t really need the additional horsepower it delivers. But there really is no telling how long it might take to see that machine down this low again. I might even argue that, for my money, spending the extra $85 today on the M4 Pro makes more sense, but for those who really want the 1TB SSD, you’re almost certainly not going to be seeing a 1TB model M4 Pro down this low anytime soon – we have never seen them drop below $1,999 at Amazon.
Black Apple Watch Ultra 2 now back at $649 Prime Day lows ($150 off)
Amazon is still featuring a number of the Natural Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2 configurations back down at the $649 Prime Day priceright now for $150 in savings off the list. But, as of right now, Best Buy is the only major retailer you’ll find the latest Black Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2 down at that same rate. Now starting from $649 shipped, just about all configurations are seeing the notable discount today.
If, like me, you prefer the look of the more silver Natural Titanium vibe on your wrist, you will find a host of band configurations waiting down at the same price over on Amazon right now – we detailed this offer for you yesterday morning and it is still live right now. But for those into the black vibes, you’ll have to head over to Best Buy for those deals.
Ever since Apple introduced the new black model Apple Watch Ultra 2 in late 2024, deal pricing on both colors of its flagship wearable got far less generous than we had tracked previous to that. But as we push towards the likely launch of the next-gen models, we are finally starting to see significant savings on brand new units like we did for Prime Day and like we are here once again at $150 off.
Apple Watch Ultra 3 is likely inbound and, if it is, it will launch in September. You certainly won’t be paying anything less than the $799 list on that one at launch (if Apple doesn’t raise the price anyway), and Black Friday 2025 isn’t likely to usher deals nearly as low as we have today on Ultra 2, but chances are the Ultra will be the previous-generation flagship come mid September:
Burton Goods debuts gorgeous new American Leather Techfolio Cord Organizer [Launch deal]
First deal hits Anker’s new Nano Charging Station with display and retractable cables at $77
Today’s accessories and charging deals:
Amazon’s Renewed Premium 1TB iPhone 16 Pro listing now back to the all-time low ($489 off)
We caught some notable and actually quite surprising official Prime Day deals on Amazon Renewed Premium iPhone 16 Pro units earlier this month, but those offers only hit the mid-range 256GB and 512GB models. Today we are taking a looking at the 1TB iPhone 16 Pro that is now $489 less than buying a new unlocked unit from Apple.
We have seen this particular 1TB Amazon listing for the black Titanium model down at $1,099 a number of times this year. But scoring one of these brand new from Apple will run you $1,499 and the Renewed Premium units straight from Amazon have now dropped down to $1,010.84 shipped. That’s $489 off and only the second time we have seen them down at the lowest we have tracked on Amazon. As of right now only the black model is down this low.
For us, Amazon’s Renewed Premium listings are among the very best source of deals on the current-generation iPhone models. Thus far, its 16 Pro deals have been the best we have seen online from a dealer as reputable and with a 1-year warranty attached. You might want to hold off at this point for the 17 series devices expected to launch this September, but you will be paying full price for unlocked units there, and we will likely be well into 2026 before Amazon’s premium refurbs pop up on those – just something to keep in mind.
Forget Prime Day, the best current-gen M4 MacBook deals of the year are now live