The 12-inch Retina MacBook. (Credit: Apple)
[UPDATE] Typically some of the best MacBook deals can be had at Best Buy. And that seems to be the case for both Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
(Note: this post is updated throughout. Best Buy updated the MacBook discounts as of early a.m. November 28.)
Best Buy has cut the price on the latest 12-inch Retina MacBooks by as much as $200 for Cyber Monday. And thrown in discounts for the 11-inch MacBook Air and 2015 MacBook Pro too.
--12-inch Retina MacBook (early 2016): price reduced by $200 to$1,399.99 from $1,599.99 for the higher-end model (1.2GHz, 512GB). Best Buy also chopped $150 off of the entry 12-inch MacBook model (1.1GHz, 256GB) to $1,149.99 from the regular price of $1,299.99.
(Note: the prices changed again early a.m. ET on November 29. Some discounts are now $150 instead of $200.)
--MacBook Air (11-inch): price cut of $200 to $699.99 from $899.99 (128GB) and to $899.99 from $1,099.99 (256GB).
--MacBook Pro Retina (2015): discount of $150 discount for the 512GB model to $1,649.99 from the regular price of $1,799.99. That comes with an Intel 5th gen "Broadwell" processor and 8GB of memory.
--Other retailers: Retailers like B&H Photo are also offering similar Cyber Monday discounts on MacBooks. Including $100 off the 13-inch 2016 MacBook Pro (Non-Touch-Bar model).
The 12-inch MacBook -- which received the lion's share of the MacBook discounts -- is Apple's most tablet-like MacBook, weighing only 2 pounds and sporting Apple's first "Butterfly" keyboard. Apple updated the 12-inch MacBook earlier this year with Intel's 6th generation "Skylake" processors (updated from last year's 5th gen Broadwell). Though the new Skylake processor and graphics deliver modest speeds improvements over Broadwell, those speed boosts seem to be enough to make it a more mainstream computing platform (see review here).
Originally published on Nov 27, 2016 @ 14:28
