Apple gave creatives everywhere a piece of bad news last week when it confirmed the inevitable: that rising RAM costs are likely to force it to raise prices on its Mac lineup. The price hike would follow a pattern we've seen from manufacturers ranging from Dell and Microsoft to Nintendo.
RAM and SSD prices have spiked significantly due to surging demand from AI data centres, which are consuming massive quantities of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and NAND storage. This is a worrying for individual consumers and creative businesses that think they may want to replace their computer in the coming months.
The upshot is that it makes this week's Amazon Prime Day MacBook deals all the more tempting. Any discount on current retail prices makes buying now potentially a wise move to beat the likely price rices. For example, our top picks among the Prime Day MacBook deals gets you the 13in MacBook Air M5 with 16GB of unified memory and a 512GB SSD reduced by $150 to $949, a record low price for a model whose MSRP could well be higher in a few months' time.
The best Prime Day MacBook deals
Of course, MacBooks aren't the only laptops that are likely to get more expensive in the coming months because of the rising price of memory. See below for deals on Windows laptops that are also well worth buying now before any price rises trickle down.
