Deals: M3 MacBook Air, MagSafe Charger, M3 iPad Air, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break deals are ready to roll. While we are now tracking $200 price drops across just about every M4 MacBook Air configuration, we also now have this Midnight 16GB M3 MacBook Air at $659 offthe original price in Best Buy open-box condition with a 1-year Apple warranty (as well as a deal on this 24GB model). We spotted additional Amazon low price drops on the new M5 iPad Pro lineup, the best price to date on Apple’s newQi2 25W 1-meter MagSafe Charger, and some new all-time lows on the Beats iPhone 17 Camera Control MagSafe case. Everything you need to know awaits below. 

Midnight 16GB M3 MacBook Air now $659 off the orig. price (Open-box, 1-yr. warranty)

We have a featured a couple notable deals on the now previous-genM3 MacBook Air as of late for folks looking to save a ton side-stepping the newer M4. While you can land $200 off the M4 models right now, we spotted a relatively rare deal on the 16GB/512GB 15-inch M3 MacBook Air in Midnight starting down at $775.99 shipped in open-box condition this morning – this model original launched at $1,699. Details await below.

Best Buy’s open-box program is offering the 15-inch M3 MacBook Airwith 16GB of RAM and the 512GB SSD down at $839.99 shipped in “excellent” condition and $775.99 shipped in “fair” condition. We tend to only recommend the “excellent” Best Buy open-box units and we are once again here today – they are simply just in better and closer to brand new condition – but the fair is an option for folks who just don’t care about the odd scuff and scratch. 

Details on the “excellent” units:

This configuration started life at $1,699 before Apple ditched the 8GB of RAM setup, which effectively dropped the price of this configuration to $1,499. Today’s deal is $659 off the newer list price, but how does this compare to the newer M4?

Apple’s 15-inch M4 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and the 512GB SSD carries a $1,399 list price and is currently on at$1,199 – it is almost never any less than that. The M3 model we have above is $559 under the list price on the M4 model and $359 below the deal price. That is clearly quite a significant difference.

Some folks must have the latest and greatest, and we very much get it. But this M3 machine is still a workable and compelling option at a price like this – it might be years before we see the comparable M4 readily available at under $900. That said here’s how pricing works out across the brand new condition M4 configs right now:

Apple’s 13-inch 24GB M3 MacBook Air is yours at $500+ off the orig. price Latest M4 MacBook Air now $200 off at Amazon and Best Buy, deals from $799 One of Apple’s 1TB M3 iPad Air configs just hit its lowest Amazon price ever at over $370 off

Amazon is now offering the lowest price ever on this 11-inch M3 iPad Air in purple today. The 1TB cell model is now over $370 offthe list price to deliver the lowest total we have tracked ever at Amazon. 

While we have tracked this 1TB 11-inch cell model for a few bucks less, that was only in the Starlight colorway. In fact, up until today the Starlight was the only color of this model to see a deal that deep. But Amazon is now offering the 1TB 11-inch M3 iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cell in purple down at $878.77 shipped. 

You’re looking at a $1,249 configuration and one that is now over $370 off the list price. This is within $4 of the short-lived all-time low on the aforementioned Starlight variant and among the deepest discounts we have tracked on any M3 iPad Air.

Just as a quick reminder, the base Wi-Fi only configurations at the more affordable end of the lineup (the 128GB and 256GB models) very rarely ever go for better than $150 off. Scoring one of those at $150 is still a solid deal, but the higher-end variants, like the one featured here today, have started to see some seriously notable discounts, especially over the last few weeks, and today’s offer is a great example of that. While the purple might not be your color of choice, if it is, or you just plan on wrapping it in a case anyway, today’s deal is not to be overlooked for anyone looking to land a more capable 1TB cell model. 

Apple’s new 2TB 11-inch M5 iPad Pro hits Amazon low today, more up to $100 off Apple’s Qi2 25W 1-meter MagSafe Charger just hit the $30 Amazon all-time low

As you likely know by now, Apple unleashed an all-new Qi2-certified 25W MagSafe Charger this year alongside the new iPhone 17 lineup. While we did track some deals on the the longer 2-meter model already, the shorter and more compact 1-meter Apple MagSafe Charger has just hit a new Amazon all-time low at just over $30 Prime shipped. 

Amazon is now offering the new Qi2 25W Apple MagSafe Charger down at $30.02 with free shipping for Prime members or in orders over $35. This is a regularly $39 charger from Apple that is now nearly 25% off the list price and sitting at a new Amazon all-time low.

As mentioned above, we have tracked the regularly $49 2-meter model down at $29 a few times since release, but if you prefer the shorter and more compact model today’s deal is the best price yet. I guess for some folks it makes less sense to pay more for the shorter model, but I for one often times prefer the more manageable charging solutions and there are times when a shorter cable is just a more organized solution.

The new 2025 model is largely the same as the model Apple released in 2024. They both deliver 25W of wireless juice to compatible gear over MagSafe, but this time with a Qi2-certified design that also works with more than just iPhone 16 and 17, like the previous model.

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B&H is landing this morning with another one of its notable Mac deals you can’t score on Amazon. Typically speaking Amazon does offer the best deals on the M4 Mac mini, but it only carries three M4 configurations and one M4 Pro configuration. B&H however, carries a whole lot more than that and you will now find a $150 price drop live on the 24GB/1TB setup.

B&H is now offering the M4 Mac mini with an upgraded 24GB of RAM and the 1TB internal SSD down at $1,049 shipped. This setup will run you $1,199 from Apple and elsewhere, but it is now $150 off at B&H.

As we have detailed previously more than a few times, the real value for most folks when it comes to Apple’s Mac mini is the most affordable configurations. You can, after all, often times score a current-generation M4 Mac mini at under $500 at Amazon (currently $549) and there’s no denying the value there.

But if you are, however, looking for more horsepower under the hood, the 24GB Macs (no matter which model you get) deliver a noticeably more snappy response and overall performance boost in my experience and the deal we have today delivers just that alongside 4x the storage capacity of the entry-level M4 mini.

We will, almost certainly, see the most affordable modelback down at $499 (or less) in the coming weeks for Black Friday, but you won’t find a deal on Amazon for this 24GB/1TB model because it does not carry it in any official capacity.

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