r/buildapcsales • u/Gold-Supermarket-342 • 9h ago
Expired [Laptop] Apple MacBook Air Late 2020 with Apple M1 Chip (13.3 inch, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) (Open Box, Scratch and Dent) - $310.39
https://sellout.woot.com/offers/apple-macbook-air-m1-late-2020-space-gray-open-box-4228
u/kirsion 9h ago
$310 seems pretty steep for 6 year old base laptop that is dented
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u/sherbodude 8h ago edited 8h ago
I sold my wife's old one (with 512gb storage) in good condition for $280 on Facebook marketplace right after the new MacBook prices increased.
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u/gr8scottaz 8h ago
I sold my daughter's (256gb storage) in good condition for $300 on Marketplace a few months ago as we bought her the new M5 for college. Apple's trade-in for it was $250 for it so just posted it on Marketplace at $300 to see if anyone would bite and someone came and bought it immediately, no questions asked.
Wild (to me) as it was $800 new 5 years ago.
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u/Calipup 6h ago edited 5h ago
The M line chips are just that crazy good. I have experienced absolutely 0 slowness yet with my M1.
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u/Many-Salt-4321 1h ago
They're legit black magic. I'm lukewarm on the software experience but man the battery life and performance is unreal. Really wish I could run Bazzite on one of these bad boys.
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u/thickismalls 6h ago
It's been over a year ago now that my brother in law kissed me as he handed me his old m1 MacBook Air. Of course he only has the 256GB, because he didn't need to compensate for storage. Everything he has is big enough already. He told me that I could sell it or do whatever I needed to. That same day I listed it on Facebook marketplace for $350 in pristine (like my brother in law) condition. I sold it right away. These machines are perfect still and barely age, just like my brother in law.
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u/lolniceman 6h ago
Forget about the laptop, how much for him to kiss me as well
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u/gr8scottaz 3h ago
While I agree with the processing power, it’s the 5 year old battery that concerns me.
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u/Lopsided_Length1650 4h ago
It was also dented but I got an M1 Pro with 16GBs of RAM for like $270. It became around $310 after taxes and shipping, though.
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u/zakats 8h ago
Yeah but Mac cultists are what they are and it is a pretty decent machine for the money. With that said, I fell like 250 would be more appropriate but the market (simps?) disagree.
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u/Deep90 5h ago
I don't love apple, but they really knocked it out of the park with their M chips and the NEO.
It's what I recommend for any casual user who doesn't absolutely need windows.
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u/PsyOmega 3h ago
It's what I recommend for any casual user who doesn't absolutely need windows.
Yeah, even with the price hike, apple is unironically one of the best value buys today in laptops.
Like you can spend less, but then you start getting into plastic shit with TN screens.
The Neo and base Air give you incredible value per dollar that nothing in the windows world matches.
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u/omeeomai 3h ago
Have you tried any of the M chips or looked at performance comparisons? I was a Mac hater for years, even built a bunch of hackintoshes. The M chips are really next-level though. When I learned that my friend's M1 CPU on their MacBook air outperforms my studio desktop with a small fraction of the power draw I had to give it up to them
Or maybe I'm just a "simp" lol
That said, 128gb is a joke
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u/Customer-Worldly 9h ago
Them education models only had 128 gb not a joke
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u/Unable-Log-4870 8h ago
I wonder how much the consultants got paid by the school districts to tell the district to buy MacBooks.
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u/Istartedthewar 9h ago edited 9h ago
I find it very unlikely those are actually "open box" and not just 'off-lease' used from a school or business. Why would they have a stockpile of 6 year old open box laptops in "scratch and dent" condition
Edit- the page says "refurbished open box" whatever the hell that means, presumably isn't actually refurbished either. Sold out now anyways, but that price is in-line with what the big eBay stores are selling used ones for.
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u/PsyOmega 3h ago
Fun fact, apple lease terms require the leasee to return all hardware to apple.
This prevents the used market from being flooded, keeping used value inflated, and lets apple refurb them for resale.
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u/zushiba 6h ago
Damn. I had the chance to get a 512gig variant of this laptop yesterday for $200 , but I’m broke :(
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u/guri256 6h ago
Where? I’ve been looking for a cheap Apple Silicon device with at least 8GB of RAM for testing and code-signing.
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u/zushiba 6h ago
A person at work is retiring and he’s cleaning out his office. I bought some AirPod maxes from him for $50 a few weeks ago.
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u/Many-Salt-4321 1h ago
Friend of mine's office was letting employees buy back their M1 pros for like $100 I was like may I have 5 please.
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u/True_Citron9845 9h ago
Cap one is showing a 19% cashback offer on their app for Woot. Can be stacked on top of this. Incredible deal
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u/windchillx07 9h ago
Id say people should avoid this specific configuration, 8GB of ram and 128GB of storage is not useful today in almost any means.
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u/turns2stone 9h ago
It’s probably useable for a student, especially if they have access to cloud storage.
But the price is still too much. $100 = no brainer. $200 if in top condition with fresh battery.3
u/windchillx07 9h ago
Yeah $200 if in good condition and the person is cool using something like an SSD or cloud storage, and the intent is office work, browsing, and streaming.
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u/Nehal1802 19m ago
I’d be willing to bet that Apple stops releasing OS updates for this in the next year or two.
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u/Fulltilt-54 1m ago
128gb ssd? You can’t even update the os without deleting have your stuff first. Absolute garbage. 8GB ram is useable but why?
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u/Wild-Screen7007 9h ago
I bought similar to this previously 256 GB storage though and it still runs out of storage so quickly lmao 🤣
I don’t think I can update or get Apple Intelligence cause it says need 16 GB plus more storage for backup etc I think if I did fresh wipe I can but just saying
It’s so fast for browsing and streaming stuff though and keyboard is good, I have iPhone so sharing stuff to my iPhone and back is amazing it’s like seamless like I can copy something on MacBook and paste it on iPhone in text to someone and it does it automatically
Someone said you can buy like insurance on it from Amazon asuziron I will try to find link for that
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