Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Computing
  3. Deals

Get the brand new MacBook Air M3 from just $399

Add as a preferred source on Google
Bladur's Gate 3 being played on the M3 MacBook Air.
Luke Larsen / Digital Trends

The latest refresh to the MacBook Air with both the 13-inch and 15-inch models enjoying an upgrade to the M3 chipset has just been unveiled. If you’re keen to get the latest and greatest MacBook Air, we’ve got the MacBook deals for you. Over at Best Buy, you can buy the latest MacBook Air M3 from just $399 when you trade in an eligible MacBook at the same time. The value varies depending on the age of your existing MacBook and it’s a great way to save on highly sought-after technology. If you’re keen to learn more about the deal and the MacBook Air M3, keep reading and we’ll tell you all about it.

Buy Now

Why you should buy the MacBook Air M3

The MacBook Air saw its upgrade to the M3 chipset with surprisingly little fanfare earlier this week. Besides the substantial speed bump which sees it up to 60% faster than the M1 in certain cases, the MacBook Air M3 has also seen a GPU improvement, support for multiple monitors with the display closed, and Wi-Fi 6E support.

Those are relatively small sounding improvements but with the MacBook Air M2 already topping our best MacBook list, you can imagine how much better the M3 is going to be. One of the best laptops around, the Apple MacBook Air M2 is a highly portable yet powerful system.

With the Apple MacBook Air M3, you get the extra powerful M3 chipset with a choice of either 8GB or 16GB of memory depending on the model you choose, as well as either 256GB of SSD storage or 512GB. A range of different colors are available with prices starting from $1,099. Of course, with Best Buy’s trade-in deal, you could get that price down to just $399 with the right trade-in. The full value leans heavily on you trading in the latest models but even something like an Apple MacBook Air M1 could get you $525 off the regular price.

Besides the great core specs of the Apple MacBook Air M3, you also benefit from up to 18 hours of battery life, a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, three mics, four speakers with Spatial Audio, and a Liquid Retina display that supports one billion colors.

Highly portable thanks to how slim and lightweight it is, the Apple MacBook Air M3 is the must-have for Apple fans. It’s available at some great prices at Best Buy when you trade in an older MacBook. Check it out for yourself and see how much you could save on a great new laptop.

Buy Now

Jennifer Allen
Jennifer Allen is a technology writer with over 15 years of experience in the field. During that time, she's spent the past…
Windows users can finally pick when updates stop with Microsoft’s latest patch
From pausing updates on your own schedule to rolling back a broken PC in one click, here's everything new in Windows 11's July 2026 update.
Windows 11 Laptop

Patch Tuesday updates are usually a shrug-and-install affair, but Microsoft's July 2026 release actually gives you something to be excited about.

You can grab this update, tagged KB5101650, right now through Settings, or manually via the Microsoft Update Catalog if you'd rather not wait for it to roll out.

Read more
Can AI audiobooks narrate better than humans? This study says many listeners think so
New study finds listeners favor AI narrated audiobooks over traditional human narration in blind testing.
Audiobooks on Spotify on an iPhone.

You might assume most listeners would pick a real human voice over a synthetic one, but a new study says otherwise. Edison Research at SSRS surveyed 1,005 fiction audiobook fans in May 2026 for a study commissioned by AI audio company Spoken. The twist is that listeners rated the AI narration higher, and they did not even know it was AI until after they heard it (via Variety).

Why listeners favored the AI narration

Read more
Gemini can make sense of the world around you, but don’t let it observe your children just yet
AI can spot what a child is doing, but figuring out what it means still takes a human expert
Kid using an iPad

Google's Gemini models are becoming remarkably good at understanding videos, images, and conversations. A new study shows AI can even identify subtle behaviors in parent-child interactions with impressive accuracy. But here's the catch: while Gemini can reliably observe what is happening, researchers say it should not be trusted to decide what those behaviors actually mean.

Worth noting is that the study used Gemini 2.5 Pro, which is not Google's most advanced AI. That means future models could improve the results even further. Even so, the researchers argue that human experts remain essential.

Read more