Apple 2026 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M5 chip: Built for AI
13.6-inch Liquid Retina Display, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD, 12MP Center Stage Camera, Touch ID, Wi-Fi 7; Midnight
$85.00 below its usual $1,234.00 since Sep 10
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Near the bottom of its recorded range.
Go to Amazon$1,149.00 is near the bottom of its recorded range.
On October 30, 2026 the Apple 2026 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop costs $1,149.00 at Amazon. Its usual price over the 51 days we have recorded since September 10, 2026 is $1,234.00; the lowest we recorded was $1,099.00, on October 4, 2026.
It has cost this or less on only 39% of the 51 days we have watched it. The lowest we have seen is $1,099.00, on October 4, 2026.
The lowest since October 11, 2026, when it cost $1,099.00. Today's price is $85.00 below its usual $1,234.00.
When the price here has fallen to $1,199.00 or below (4 times in our record), it stayed there a median of 42 hours, and at most 8 days. Today's has run 11 days so far.
This describes the prices we recorded. It is not a forecast of where this one goes next.
Price at AmazonVerified
Apple last updated the MacBook Air in March 2026, 7 months ago; its last 7 releases came about 12 months apart. Release dates from the MacRumors Buyer’s Guide.
Price history since September 10, 2026 (51 days)
One line: the best price any tracked retailer charged, per day.
Lightning or limited-time deal
Shaded stretches are sales, from our calendar.
| Price | Now | Lowest | Highest | Usual | Average | Days recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | $1,149.00 | $1,099.00 on Oct 4 | $1,299.00 on Sep 10 | $1,234.00 | $1,197.15 | 51 |
- 30 days
- $1,099.00 on Oct 4
- All time
- $1,099.00 on Oct 4
Next time, from Amazon: change amazon.com to basketprice.com in a product’s address. This one is basketprice.com/dp/B0GR1JTFP8.
Sales events
Next on the calendar: Black Friday, likely November 19–30. We keep checking this price through it and report here what it did.
Waiting for a sale? How often prices for laptops move, and how far they swing, beside every other category we track.
Has Apple 2026 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop dropped in price?
- Yes: $85.00 less than the $1,234.00 Amazon was charging on October 12, 2026.
- Below its usual $1,234.00 on 20 of the 51 days we have watched it here, in 2 separate stretches; the lowest, $1,099.00, held from October 4, 2026 to October 11, 2026.
- Cheaper than this on 16% of the 51 days we have watched it here.
Computed from our own checks at Amazon as of October 30, 2026. No line here uses a price a retailer told us about.
Where to buy
- Held for
- 11d
- Their 51-day low
- $1,099.00
- Checked
- 12h ago
Prices checked at least every 20 hours; “held for” is how long that retailer has been charging this price. How we check prices.
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What it is
7 attributes, in the retailer’s own words. We record the prices; these we only pass on.
- Size
- 16GB Unified Memory | 512GB SSD Storage
- Color
- Midnight
- Weight
- 2.71 pounds
- Dimensions
- 11.97 × 8.46 × 0.44 inches
- Model
- MDHE4LL/A
- Released
- March 2026
- Warranty
- Apple One (1) Year Limited Warranty
Prices by size and type: Laptops with 16GB RAM (214 we price, from $289.00) · 13-inch laptops (16 we price, from $239.00).
Cheaper in Laptops, and what changes
Things we track on the same shelf for at least 10% less than $1,149.00, with the attributes the retailers describe differently. Their words, not our judgement: we record prices, we do not test products.
Dell15.6 Laptop$709.00 at Amazon $440.00 lessSize: 512GB SSD instead of 16GB Unified Memory | 512GB SSD StorageWeight: 3.67 pounds instead of 2.71 pounds
LenovoV15 Gen 4 Business Laptop$710.00 at Amazon $439.00 lessSize: 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD instead of 16GB Unified Memory | 512GB SSD StorageWeight: 3.64 pounds instead of 2.71 pounds
LenovoV-Series V15 Business Laptop$999.99 at Amazon $149.01 lessSize: 40GB RAM | 1TB SSD instead of 16GB Unified Memory | 512GB SSD StorageWeight: 3.59 pounds instead of 2.71 pounds
Every change we recorded at Amazon
Every row is a price we saw change. We write one only when a price actually moves, so a gap here means the price held.
| When | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
| · 11d ago | $1,149.00 | −$50.00 |
| · 11d ago | $1,199.00 | −$35.00 |
| · 18d ago | $1,234.00 | +$135.00 |
| · 26d ago | $1,099.00 | −$135.00 |
| · 32d ago | $1,234.00 | +$35.00 |
| · 34d ago | $1,199.00 | −$37.69 |
6 older changes
| When | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
| · 38d ago | $1,236.69 | −$12.31 |
| · 41d ago | $1,249.00 | +$50.00 |
| · 42d ago | $1,199.00 | −$50.00 |
| · 45d ago | $1,249.00 | +$50.00 |
| · 46d ago | $1,199.00 | −$100.00 |
| · 50d ago | $1,299.00 | first seen |
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