Argos kickstarts Black Friday sale early with cut-price MacBook Air

Black Friday is not techncially until November 28 this year, but in recent years the famous sale event has stretched to run during most of the whole of November. UK retail favourite Argos has started its Black Friday sale one day early, launching a slate of offers on October 31, including an eye-catching discount on one of the most popular Apple laptops around.

Argos is currently selling the MacBook Air M2 for £699.99, a notable £300 discount on its £999 RRP that it was sold for until now. This model was released in 2022 and has since been superseded by the M3 and M4 versions that have technically more powerful processors, but that doesn't mean it's a bad buy in 2025. Far from it.

The M2 MacBook Air is no slouch, and for £699.99 is a great deal. Unless you plan to edit tons of 4K video and work in RAM-busting professional apps all day, the Air M2 is more than enough computer for you. It has a modern MacBook design, and was the version to introduce this thinner build, moving away from the older wedge design of the famous Air laptops of old.

It has a 13.6-inch LCD Liquid Retina display with 1080p FaceTime camera and three microphones to ensure your video calls or Garageband recordings sound good, plus it charges up via USB-C or the updated MagSafe charging port (with charger included in the box).

You also get two Thunderbolt ports and a headphone jack, but you'll need adapters if you have USB-A peripherals or SD cards to plug in.

The backlit keyboard has excellent feel and feedback and even has a Touch ID sensor in the power button for unlocking the device and for secure online payments using Apple Pay.

View the Apple MacBook Air M2 at Argos

Four speakers offer the familiarly impressive punky audio we've all come to expect from MacBooks, meaning video calls, music and movies sound great even without headphones.

For my money, MacBooks like this also still have the very best trackpads, better than any Windows laptops. This is thanks to Apple's superb engineering where the trackpad doesn't physically move but instead simulates a click using vibration.

Apple rates the MacBook Air M2 for 18 hours of battery life, a figure my colleague Dave Snelling found accurate in his review of the laptop. Apple's M chips are famous for their battery longevity, so you shouldn't fear running out of juice on a work day away from the mains.

The M2 Air is fully compatible and upgradeable, for free, to the latest macOS 26 software version and should be supported for several more years.

If you want the latest MacBook Air, Argos is selling the latest M4 version for £929. But most people will be served just as well by the M2 at this excellent £699.99 price.