As Presidents Day sales begin to heat up, we are seeing a slew of new deals on our favorite tech products. One of the best deals of the day comes courtesy of Amazon.

Right now, Amazon is offering the rarely discounted Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) for $949.99. That's $49 off and one of the best Apple products we've seen this year. By comparison, this same configuration temporarily hit $899 on Cyber Monday (a price we are not likely to see soon).

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). [MacBooks with such great deals sell out quickly, so grab one while you can.