Best Buy is knocking $150 off new MacBook Pro M2 for back to school

Students will be back in school in a matter of days. If you’re still shopping for the right laptop for college, Best Buy has an epic back to school sale you can’t miss. 

For a limited time, you can get the 13-inch MacBook Pro M2 on sale for $1,149 at Best Buy (opens in new tab). That’s $150 off and the second-best price we’ve seen for this newly released MacBook Pro. (It was $200 off last month). It’s also one of the best MacBook deals available today. 

In our MacBook Pro 13″ M2 (2022) review, we called Apple’s new laptop the most powerful baseline 13-inch MacBook Pro Apple has ever released. Although the new processor isn’t as powerful as the M1 Pro or M1 Max chip, it’s a huge improvement over the original M1 chip. 

On Geekbench 5.4, which measures overall performance, the MacBook Pro 2022 scored 8,911 on the multicore portion of the test. This is well above the M1 MacBook Pro’s 7,571 score on Geekbench 5.3. It also runs circles around the best Windows laptops, defeating notebooks like the Asus Zenbook 13 OLED (6,411) and Dell XPS 13 OLED (5,420) in the same performance test. However, the beastly M1 Pro-driven MacBook Pro 14-inch remains king with a 12,477 score. In terms of battery life, the new laptop lasted 18 hours and 20 minutes in our tests. 

There’s no telling when this deal could expire, so get it while you can. Also, be sure to check out our best Apple deals coverage for more sales on Apple kit.