I hunted down the best early October Prime Day MacBook deals: Save $600 on the M5 Max MacBook Pro

a 14-inch macbook pro

Genuinely good MacBook deals have been harder to come by in the wake of Apple’s summer price hikes. But I have a feeling that will change during Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon’s 48-hour fall savings event for Prime members on Oct. 6 and 7.

“October Prime Day,” as the sale is often called, serves as Amazon’s unofficial kickoff for the holiday shopping season. Last year, it brought us $200 discounts on the MacBook Air and savings of up to $400 on select MacBook Pros — the same sorts of deals we later saw on Black Friday 2025. If Amazon replicated those offers next month, we’d be seeing our lowest MacBook prices since Apple’s markups took effect.

In the weeks leading up to Prime Big Deal Days, most MacBooks are already on sale (including the budget MacBook Neo). I wouldn’t add most of them to your cart just yet, since they’ll probably get even cheaper once the sale starts. That said, there are two exceptions.

The best October Prime Day MacBook deals (so far)

Credit: Apple

Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M5 Max, 36GB RAM, 2TB SSD)

$3,499

$4,099
Save $600

Credit: Apple

Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M5 Max, 36GB RAM, 2TB SSD)

$3,799
at Amazon

$4,399
Save $600

The M5 Max chip is Apple’s most powerful laptop CPU to date. It’s designed to handle the ultra-demanding workloads of “pro users” like “3D animators, app developers, and AI researchers,” according to a company press release.

Ahead of Prime Big Deal Days, you can save a whopping $600 on both sizes of the M5 Max-powered MacBook Pros with a hulking 36GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. The 14-inch model is marked down to $3,499 (normally $4,099), while the 16-inch one comes out to $3,799 (typically $4,399). It should be noted that both laptops originally cost $100 more at launch.

As mentioned earlier, Amazon’s October Prime Day MacBook Pro deals usually max out at $400ish. With that in mind, I can’t see these deals getting any better down the road.