The Memorial Day sale is just around the corner, but if you can't wait until then, today's MacBook special is the best price of the year.

Right now, Amazon is offering the rarely discounted Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) for $899.99. This is a $100 discount and one of the best Apple deals we have seen this year. (It sells for $949, but the in-cart discount drops it to $899.99. (If you don't see the sale price, try a MacBook Air in another color.)

The new MacBook Air has a 13-inch 2,560 x 1,600 pixel Retina display, 8GB of RAM, Apple's 8-core M1 CPU, and a 256GB SSD. Despite its basic configuration, this MacBook has the same CPU as the more expensive MacBook Pro M1 and is powerful enough for just about anything.

MacBook Air M1 reviewers gave this model a near perfect score for outstanding performance, a comfortable keyboard design, a high-resolution webcam, and surprisingly strong battery life The Air scored a Geekbench 5.1 (Intel) multi-core test, scoring 5,962 points, essentially putting it in a dead heat with the M1 MacBook Pro's 5,925 points. It also significantly outperformed the ZenBook 13's 5,084 and the XPS 13's 5,319 in the equivalent Geekbench 5.2 test (both tested with Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU and 16GB RAM).

This MacBook Air offer could sell out quickly.