Retailer Continues to Offer Apple MacBook Air M1 Model, Keeping It Available for Buyers
The MacBook Air M1 model is available in countries like India, although the company has discontinued the version from its official range. But it looks like the Air M1 variant has been given a new lease of life in the US market thanks to popular retailer Walmart.
That’s right, people in the US who are still eager to get their hands on the M1 Air model can do so by going to a Walmart store or website and picking up the older MacBook Air at an attractive price.
Apple has partnered with Walmart to sell the discontinued MacBook Air M1 model, a first for the company in its home market. The official partnership also means that people who buy a MacBook Air M1 from a reseller will get full product support and service from Apple.
The most attractive part of selling the MacBook Air M1 through Walmart is that people in the US can buy it for just $699 (roughly Rs. 56,000), which is similar to the price of the MacBook Air M1 in India through various online channels today. The fact that people can get an unboxed MacBook Air M1 model in the US for a fraction of its launch price should definitely encourage more people to pick up Macs, which will not only help Apple increase its sales, but also clean up the old one. MacBook M1 Air stock.
That being said, the MacBook Air M1 is still a very capable machine, even though Apple has now switched to the M3 silicon with the latest MacBook Air that has come out recently.
The MacBook Air M1 is over three years old at this point. However, the laptop still holds up well by today’s standards, especially considering battery life and performance. You can edit 4K video on it as long as you don’t have heavy layering or graphics, and you can also edit images in apps like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
Apple also released its first 15-inch MacBook Air model this year, giving consumers more options in their lineup.
The company clearly understands the value of its older models, which has done really well with iPhone models in countries like India, where older iPhones tend to outsell newer models.