First deal and had to wait to see an order confirmation before posting as i wasn’t sure if its a price error.
$1444 - ATL?
MacBook Air 13" M4 10-Core CPU 10-Core GPU 16/512GB
Silver only.
Still not sure why it was so cheap, but as in true ozb fashion, we buy first and ask second.
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-ai…
seems to be only the 10 core cpu 8 core gpu that is $1573, jumps up to $1743 with 10/10
yes, $1573 is 8-core GPU, but just $1,702.80 if upgrading to 10-core GPU only and nothing else ($1,731.40 is with better power adapter)
$1,861.20 if also 24GB RAM or 1TB SSD - either includes better power adapter as well
Just got the 10/10 13” and upgraded to 24gb ram
$1861 on aoc and after gift cards ended up being $1757. Maybe $1588 after TRS…
Do they check you are a student?
If not, oof. I would have got this instead haha.
I've seen some mixed things. Personally, I order through the edu store and do click and collect, and I've never been checked for student status or ID.
Apple have changed it now they actually need you to be a student now even online you need to have proof. So no more getting cheap deals any more with eduation and not being a student which is ashame.
@kungfuman: Is it just through an .edu email, or using Sheer? My student email was never turned off even after graduating, so I go through that way, but since services started using Sheer, I've been hard stuck.
@theguyisat: hard to say not 100% on what they changed but from what i saw they made this change recently so they actualy check now no honor system.
@theguyisat: It is through unidays so just having a student email should be enough to pass the checks.
I ordered a Macbook off the AOC store last Thursday, picked up in-store on Saturday without any student ID checks online/offline.
Only a few more days until the AOC store closes
Yep and it is only available for delivery when I tried to order Macbook Neo today at Apple AOC store despite that there is stock in Apple store.
Has anyone ordered recently and can comment if the unidays verification applies?
I did a dummy order (didn’t go through with payment) a few days ago and was prompted to verify through unidays.
I just purchased the M5 through AOC and was not asked to verify at all.
How do you pay using GC on the Apple AOC store? Do you just add it to your apple account and login then?
Yep
I reckon M4 version should drop $100 further to create enough price gap from the current gen.
I couldn’t agree more.
But as someone who is begrudgingly entering the final phase of full emersion into apples world, this 16/512gb for under $1500 was enough to get me over the line haha
Edit: free delivery is nice too.
Maybe OW will drop further when it is on clearance sale. Now Macbook and Windows Laptops are closer in terms of price. I used to be a Windows laptop fan but now my next laptop may be a macbook.
Id be interested to see if they do. Not too sure they will though as everyone else is still flogging these off for $1699-1799
This was a real surprise find last night.
I feel like this is already the lowest price we will see.
i made that changes couple years ago with m2 14 inch macbook pro. seems super flawless so far with no noticeable slowing down like windows laptop did in the past.
@penting: I'm using a 2015 Macbook Air… battery still lasts all day. Still smooth / quick.
Cant tell the difference in speed since new (or see any reason to upgrade it yet). Absolutely cant stand iphones, but the Macbook. Brilliant.
I have this model and it's such a wonderful workhorse. It's more than enough for everyday use and probably enough for a lot of heavier users too. The fact that it's fast, fanless and lasts pretty much all day makes it one of the best laptops I've ever had. That said, for such a small price difference, get the m5.
seems the m5 with same specs 16gb/512 10/10 is nearly $250 more
10/10 starts at 1TB
Better resell value
100% fanless means less dust inside. And it is thinner than pro models. It is really a good machine
and it's a great way to stay in shape…
Thinner and no fan means that it will thermal throttle a lot faster than the pro models too.
hopefully we see some good mac mini deals for LLM with M5 release next month.
Need a 15” or 16”
I have an m4 air 13 inch I was going to trade in for $775. Would I be better off selling it second hand? Just don’t use it as much as I thought I would.. prefer using my desktop.
Yes. What are the specs?
M4 w 16tb ram seem to be listed around $1.1k +
That's a lot of RAM!
M4 only comes with a base of 16GB
That too in this market! I wonder if it's RAM geared SMSF
I would buy the M5A from the AOC store, which closes on the 28th of May.
28th May - is that sure?
Yes
the deal posted 2-3 months ago with the free airpods was better, it also stacked with the %10 woolies, now its a lesser deal even if u manager to get the 10% wollies gift cards, and AOC store closing on Thursday and no free airpods
M4 vs M5 : is it worth the premium to get the M5 and if you get the M5 is 16gb enough?
Well the truth is the M5 is a SMALL bump over the M4 in Ai LLM if you have the 32gb you can run a model like Qwen 3.6 27b Q4 and you cant do that with the 16gb or 24gb.
Thats it, thats the ONLY reason to buy the M5 over this and to be fair, your using CoPilot or GPT or Gemini anyway, so the answer is, NO
For everything else, this is all you need for 99% ~ unless your a youtube content creator and edit large 4k 10bit video, then your looking at 32gb or 64gb.
And if your seriously wanting to do LOCAL Ai then, your waiting for the STUDIO version and planning to home deposit for 128gb and up of memory
I am thinking of getting MBP 14, M5Pro 48GB, 1TB, what do you think?
thanks OP, ordered M5 24 from AOC
Did you use gift card?
Edit.. were you asked for verification?
yes for both
Was the verification done through Unidays? Did you collect or have it delivered?
Ngl, im jealous haha
Ordered via AOC, paid using GC, no verification, pickup from store in a week.
Ordered M5, 32gb
Have placed the order by using Apple Gift Card with Everyday reward, 10% extra discount
I got
MacBook Air 15" M4 10-Core CPU 10-Core GPU 16/512GB Starlight for $1247.00
All well and good, but where and how 🤷🏽♂️
Officeworks. Google MacBook Air 15.
$1797 🤷🏽♂️
It was like a clearance. All gone in a couple hours.
Still showing in stock for me. Depends on your postcode.
@El cheepo: It’s probably all sold out now. I just collected mine in store.
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-ai…
@El cheepo: I actually got one of JB Hi-Fi stores to price match it (with extra $10 for delivery) and have the deal active until the end of the day. Thinking whether to pull the trigger as our household already has 13” MacBook M1 but it’s usually occupied by my son for his gaming. Pull the trigger now or wait a bit till better deal comes up? Decisions, decisions…
@Ievgen: Id take the $1247 deal if its showing for you.
But purely put of a sense of value over need haha.
@Ievgen: You will never get the M4 15 with 512gb for that price. It’s almost like a price error. Which is not.
@HansW: Ok, just pulled the trigger. Should be delivered by next Friday. $1256.99 with delivery included.
As a cherry on top, I’ll salary sacrifice it at work and will end up paying a bit more than half of that price for it. Thanks all and the OP for sharing the initial deal.
Will treat it as a present for my recent birthday, haha.
@Ievgen: Happy birthday and congratulations. I just set up mine. The 15 inch screen is just amazing.
As per what's described here under "Change of mind returns", I don't think you can return it and get a refund anymore.
The item is in re-saleable condition, including its original packaging (if any), is unused and as sold
The 15" version (also M4 16/512 $1247) seems to go in/out of stock a few times for some reason https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-ai…
Perhaps clearance on last unit, or possibly price error, but it's an insane price for whoever lucky enough to get it.
That is a way better deal haha.
Im going to try my luck on a return as i never opened my one (the 13inch)
But probably can’t do it for a week, so I'm just hoping theres still stock.
I was lucky enough to pick one up. Insane price for a 15inch.
I managed to put in an order over the weekend (after hours of checkout attempts lol). This morning I got SMS saying there's a delay in stock allocation. Hope it goes through.
Keep us posted, im away and still holding out hope 😂
Yep it was delivered late afternoon! After missing so many insane MBA M2 deals from Costco, I'm so happy I got this one!
@Kingduytan: I am absolutely tempted to just order one even though im away.
But i have never tried to return anything to officeworks let alone a online purchase.
I don’t wanna get stuck with two laptops 😂
@Ghosteye: Im still holding out hope it will become available again by the weekend, but if it doesn't, at least i still got a good deal with $1444.
Just unfortunate when you know a better deal exists 😂
I bought the M3 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD from JB in Oct 2024 for AUD $2149 or there about (cheaper after gift cards and asking for a better deal online). You'd definitely want to get at least the 24GB RAM model(s) for intensive web browsing use or local LLM use. Chrome has crashed countless of times under heavy load. the m series runs fine most of the time and battery life is excellent but there are still occasional browser bugs or hangs on the ARM architecture although they are getting rarer. I think this bug got fixed but sometimes Facebook groups just fail to fully load in Chrome. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chrome-arm64-bug-javascript-v… There also seems to be a tonne of memory leaks between LinkedIn and Gmail tabs from time to time. You can monitor in Chrome > top bar > Window > Task Manager.
Memory leak issue: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stefancaliaro_linkedin-activi…
M5 version is $1,573 at Apple AOC if someone wants to buy the latest version:
https://www.apple.com/au_edu_5000447/shop/buy-mac/macbook-ai…
Woolies Apple GC promo is coming on Wednesday:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/960252