Today’s 9to5Mac Lunch Break is headlined by the first cash deal on the most affordable n (or as low as $249 with trade), as well as a chance to land the with the same RAM/storage specs as new . Those offers join the ongoing and as well as all , the best price yet on this Blue/Bright Blue , and a solid deal on Apple’s latest . Everything awaits below.

Apple has officially unleashed its next-generation as well as the , but it has also introduced the world to its new and far . All three of the new models are now up for pre-order before shipments begin arriving on doorsteps mid next week, so we have now put together the best pre-order deals for folks to land a discount on their new 2026 MacBook.

Alongside offering the best deals on pre-orders for the new , , and , Best Buy is also getting particularly aggressive with the brand new M4-equipped iPad Air lineup Apple just unveiled. While pre-orders listings for the , Best Buy has now slashed the price on the new for everyone (you do not need to be a Plus or Total member).

As you can see in the list below, Best Buy has decided to knock $40 off the most affordable M4 iPad Air you can buy – this is the best straight up cash deal around. Now, all Best Buy Plus and Total members can score any model at $50 off, but the 11-inch M4 can be had at $40 off in all four colors even without a membership:

• 11-inch M4 iPad Air 128GB or $50 off for members
• 11-inch M4 iPad Air 256GB or $50 off for members
• 11-inch M4 iPad Air 512GB or $50 off for members
• 11-inch M4 iPad Air 512GB1TB or $50 off for members
• 13-inch M4 iPad Air 128GB or $50 off for members
• 13-inch M4 iPad Air 256GB or $50 off for members
• 13-inch M4 iPad Air 512GB or $50 off for members
• 13-inch M4 iPad Air 1TB or $50 off for members

With all of that said, if you do have some gear to trade in against the new M4 iPad Air, you’ll want to see what Best Buy will offer you first. There are reports suggesting it is offering as much as 20% more than Apple with some gear, so be sure to compare there. That on top of the discounts detailed above can yield the tablet as low as $249 or less right now.

Then go check out the now live Best Buy Apple Shopping event as well as the rest of the new 2026 Apple gear pre-order deals below:

The new M5 MacBook Air and we uncovered some for folks looking to make the upgrade. You can score a with your purchase and even leverage some of the enhanced trade-in values over at Best Buy to land one at up to . But the question remains, is the M5 boost worth the spending close to $200 more if you don’t have something substantial to trade-in? Amazon is , and even with the storage boost on the new M5, you can still land the M4 for than right now.

Apple upped its storage offerings on the new M5 MacBook Air. There is now longer a 256GB storage tier and that means that, while the starting price did jump up $100, it actually brings the list prices down on the upgraded models. For example:

• 15-inch M4 MacBook Air 24GB/512GB
• 15-inch M5 MacBook Air 24GB/512GB $1,499 (Amazon does not sell this configuration)
• 15-inch M5 MacBook Air 24GB/1TB

As you can see above, despite the higher price on the entry model, the price on the upgraded M5 machines has effectively gone down by comparison to the list prices on the M4 MacBook Air with the same specs.

That said, you can indeed still land the 15-inch M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM and the 512GB SSD at $1,299 right now – that’s $300 under its list price and $200 less than the comparable M5 MacBook Air.

Yes, the M5 chip is faster and more powerful, and the SSD inside the newer models delivers, according to Apple, 2x faster read/write performance compared to the previous generation.” You’ll also get a better charger included in the box and the new model features Apple’s N1 wireless chip with Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) and Bluetooth 6.

Alongside of the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook machines, Apple also that it will no longer be selling M5 MacBook Pro with 512GB of storage – it will now start at 1TB. That means the starting price of the most affordable M5 MacBook Pro just to $1,699, and it also potentially delivers some added value to the 512GB .

The 512GB configuration for the base model and most affordable M5 MacBook Pro is already gone from the Apple site, and there’s no telling how much stock is left at retailers like Amazon and others.

The 16GB M5 MacBook Pro with 512GB of storage Apple no longer sells carried a $1,599 list price – $100 less than the new starter price. However, over at Amazon right now you’ll find this model . That’s $150 off the original list price and $250 less than the new entry point.

The only times we have seen this 512GB variant go for any less than this was during Black Friday 2025 and there’s no telling what might happen with stock as Apple pushes the new 1TB entry model onto store shelves – the M5 Pro and M5 Max pre-orders begin tomorrow

There is very much a chance we see the new 1TB M5 MacBook Pro go $200 off or even more than that, but chances are it won’t be until much later this year before we see it hitting the same prices as the 512GB model is today, if at all. We can’t know for sure of course, but you’re looking at summer Prime Day at the earliest and Black Friday 2026 as the most likely if we had to venture an educated guess.

It’s Apple spring pre-order week, with deals now live on early orders for the new , , and the all-new . This offers are also sitting alongside the first cash discount on the new , but we are also tracking the return of solid this week as well.

As you can see in the list below, all of the most sought-after (and most affordable) Apple Watch Series 11 models are now $100 off:

Unlike we were tracking at the end of last month, the deals are now live once again across all of the case color and band options Amazon offers.

These deals are on par with the lowest we have tracked since release last September, knocking a straight up $100 off the list price you’ll pay at Apple and undercutting the official 2025 Black Friday deals. We did see these same offers land thereafter ahead of Christmas, but if you missed out or just weren’t ready to pull the trigger, the deals have returned once again.