August MacBook Deals Bring Great Low Prices, Starting At Just $599

A whole bunch of Apple MacBook laptops are on sale right now, and just in time for the back-to-school shopping season. Some of the models we've rounded up are even selling at all-time low prices. It's generally true that you get what you pay for, though for productivity chores and long battery life, these discounted MacBook deals offer strong bang-for-buck propositions.

The least expensive model we found is a 13.3-inch MacBook Air that's on sale for $599 at Walmart (save $50). Released in 2020, it's a bit older at this point, though it's powered by Apple's M1 silicon, which consists of an eight-core CPU that is split evenly between performance and efficient cores (four each), a seven-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine.

Apple's custom M1 chip represents its departure from using Intel's x86 silicon, with one of the major advantages being ...