Black Friday is officially here, and it's kicking off with a flourish: an unexpected $100 price drop on our favorite laptop for 2020

Today only, B&H Photo is offering the new MacBook Air M1 for $899 This is the first time this laptop is on sale It is one of the best Black Friday deals since the maximum discount was supposed to be $50

The new MacBook Air M1 is the first laptop to feature Apple's M1 CPU In our review of the MacBook Air M1, the laptop performed more like a "Pro" machine than an entry-level Air Geekbench 5 1 (Intel) multi-core test, scoring 5,962 points, essentially a dead heat with the M1 MacBook Pro's 5,925 points In the equivalent Geekbench 52 test, the Air significantly outperformed the ZenBook 13's 5,084 and the XPS 13's 5,319 (both tested with Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU and 16GB RAM)

As for battery life, the new Air recorded an impressive 14 hours and 41 minutes of duration Simply put, it outperformed the competition That's $100 off the regular price