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Definitions. Economic inflation. historic Big company Tremors and mergers. With all the factors Facing the technology industryYou might think that the price of a popular product like a laptop will rise this year. But exactly the opposite is happening.
I’ve been watching laptop prices slowly decline throughout 2025, a trend that peaked during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Regardless of the state of the economy, I feel like I can say that laptop prices have never been lower. some My favorite laptops Recently offered significant price reductions Macs, Windowsand Chromebooks. At a time when many of us are strapped for money, this is welcome news. But with a shortage of RAM behind the scenes, there’s good reason to believe it won’t last much longer.
Just look at the MacBook
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There’s a perfect example to illustrate my point: the MacBook Air. For years now, the latest MacBook has been selling for $999. In 2022, Apple briefly raised the price of the M2 version to $1,199 but kept the previous generation M1 MacBook Air at $999. The last MacBook to sell for less than $999 was in 2015, when Apple had an 11-inch model for $899. That’s a long time to be consistent, considering how much more nearly everything in your life costs today than it did in 2015.
Don’t forget the discounts. the MacBook Air M4 It’s the newest model, and dropped to $749 in November at retailers like Best buy, Amazonand Walmart. Before that, it was selling for $800 for several months. This is an incredible price for this laptop, especially since the entry configuration comes with 16GB of RAM.
Apple has offered a supply of older models through third-party retailers. Walmart briefly reduced the price of the product M1 MacBook Air, $499. Not refurbished or used; They are new. This alone is unusual for Apple. There was a time when Apple was seen as the expensive alternative. But for modern entry-level Macs, that’s not true anymore. Even brand new MacBook Pro M5 I got an unprecedented $150 discount on Black Friday, just a month after it was announced, and this discount It remains in place today.