The best Prime Day MacBook deals look even better after Apples price changes: Get a Neo for $590
THE SO WHAT
A $949 MacBook Air and $1,549 MacBook Pro ahead of a broad Apple price increase is effectively a one-time arbitrage on your endpoint TCO. Finance and IT should treat this as the last cheap window to standardize on Apple laptops before per-seat costs step up for the next cycle.
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