That's funny, the only two electronics deals I routinely follow are Costco's Macs and Chromebooks. Their $799 M1 Air is still a steal, and the M1 Mac Mini for $

That's funny, the only two electronics deals I routinely follow are Costco's Macs and Chromebooks. Their $799 M1 Air is still a steal, and the M1 Mac Mini for $299 was unbeatable for the moment it lasted ($499 for the M2 Mini is pretty great, as well). $1200 for an 8GB M2 Air, though... It's a bit steep in comparison, but on it's own, it's really a 13" MBP inside... And if it's practically a Pro, why not just get the 14" for $1600? I think their final lineup of sickly Intel Macs really distorted things with the operations-centric "come get your ports, lol" pricing. Those are awful machines, and setting the expectation that a device's capability should be related to its display size was such a thinly veiled intelligence test. Between barely refreshing their hardware over a decade (the trashcan Pro was X79-based) and Batterygate, it wasn't their brightest era.