What RAM crisis? Prime Day MacBook deals take prices back to pre-June levels with up to $250 off

The M5 MacBook Air is the Apple laptop that gets our vote as the best option for most people. Released in March, it provides excellent performance for general design and image editing software while offering a light, portable build and very good value given the current price environment.

This is by far the cheapest price we've seen since the big Apple price hike in mid June. See our MacBook Air M5 review for more details.

For more graphically demanding creative work like pro video editing in Premiere or DaVinci or 3D rendering, I'd try to stretch to a M5 Pro-chipped MacBook Pro with its 16-core GPU and 24GB RAM as standard. Again, this is the best price we've seen in the past four months.

For a bigger screen, the 16-inch sibling of the MacBook above is the beneficiary of the biggest MacBook Prime Day deals with $250 to $300 off depending on the configuration.

This is only a small discount on the newest addition to the MacBook family, but then the colourful 13in Neo was already very economical for an Apple laptop. It's solid enough as an entry‑level Mac for beginner graphic design and general browsing and entertainment, with a crisp Liquid Retina display and all‑day battery life.

See our MacBook Neo review for more on our experience with it.

Not a MacBook, although it's so compact that it's almost a portable, this is actually the biggest surprise among Prime Day Mac deals. The new Mac mini, which was only released last month, so such a big deal so soon is really unexpected considering the current price of tech.

With a choice of M6 or M5 Pro chip and configurations starting from 16GB of memory and 256GB SSD, it's a beautifully discreet desktop computer, now delivering faster CPU and AI performance.