Apple MacBook Air 13 M4 Entry
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Primary Camera: 12 MPix
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Average of 5 scores (from 6 reviews)
Reviews for the Apple MacBook Air 13 M4 Entry
The base model of the new MacBook Air 13 benefits from an extremely fast M4 processor and, in addition to a thin case, still offers a brilliant IPS display, silent operation and long battery life—at least with the brightness reduced.
Source: Trusted Reviews
The MacBook Air M4 is an easy sell. It’s the complete package for most people, and if you want a better screen or options of a more powerful chip then there’s the MacBook Pro M4. The lower price combined with the bump in memory to 16GB across the board makes this a fantastic deal – how often can that be said about Apple’s products? There’s nothing to entice anyone happy with their M3 or M2 models, aside from some slight performance gains and a few extra hours of endurance, but if you jumped on the Apple Silicon bandwagon early with the M1 then this is a worthy upgrade. My only real criticism is that the screen is starting to show its age compared to the best laptops and best ultrabooks. It’s perfectly fine, but without ProMotion, a matte option and no OLED variant, this is the only area I want to see upgraded on the next model.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/16/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Think Digit
The 13-inch Apple MacBook Air M4 (2025) is arguably the best value-for-money MacBook Apple has ever made. With double the RAM, a fresh new look, and that brilliant M4 chip—all at a lower price than the M3 variant, it’s hard not to recommend it. It’s not a gaming beast, and it’s not made for long-hour heavy renders. But for everyone else—students, writers, designers, coders, content creators, the M4 MacBook Air offers silent performance, unmatched battery life, a premium display, and one of the most travel-friendly form factor in the industry. For ₹99,900, there are very few laptops in 2025 that offers this much efficiency, build quality, and power in such a compact and elegant package.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/07/2025
Source: The Indian Express
Apple’s vision for the iPad has evolved through different phases. The new iPad Air is very similar to last year’s model but also feels different. It still feels like an iPad, but there’s a subtle hint that the device is awfully close to the iPad Pro. It perfectly represents what a tablet should be—thin and light, fast enough to run all the must-have apps, yet capable of functioning as a personal computer. That’s exactly how Apple wants you to see the iPad: part tablet, part Mac. I spent a week with the iPad Air M3, and here are my observations.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/28/2025
Source: India Today
Compared to the iPad Air M2, the new one is a marginal bump in its capabilities, design and feature set. So, it is good to see that Apple has kept the price of the iPad Air unchanged. It still starts at Rs 59,900 for the 11-inch variant and Rs 79,900 for the iPad Air M3 13-inch. In other words, the iPad Air M3 is for those who are buying their first proper tablet or those who are upgrading from vanilla or old iPads. For such users, it is near perfect. The M3 chip, in particular, offers substantial performance, approaching pro-level capabilities, making it a great value.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/26/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Expert Reviews
Ultimately, the M4 MacBook Air is a great laptop but it isn’t a revolution. Apple has reacted to Windows laptops catching up on battery life by dropping the price, upping the base specification and keeping the rest of the laptop as is. That’s mostly good news and it means – after a brief hiatus – the MacBook Air is once more the laptop of choice, stripping that honour away from the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7. It’s the laptop I recommend most people buy if they want a reliable, do-it-all machine capable of everything from writing laptop reviews and watching YouTube to heavy-duty tasks such as 4K video editing and 3D design. Whether it will stay there for long, however, is up to the big Windows laptop box shifters.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/24/2025
Rating: Total score: 100%
Source: Hardware Zone
The new MacBook Air may not be as seminal a machine as the recently updated Mac Mini, but it’s easily one of the best MacBook Airs Apple has ever released. It’s powerful, well-built, thin and light, has a long battery life, and is even cheaper than the model it replaces. Furthermore, it now comes with 16GB of memory as standard, which addresses one of our longest-standing and biggest issues with Apple’s base configuration MacBooks. However, it’s not perfect. The Liquid Retina display is starting to look outdated now given that most Windows laptops are steadily transitioning to OLED displays. Throttling can be an issue on longer or more intensive workloads. Also, having just 256GB and two USB-C ports is a bit miserly. Thankfully, none of these are dealbreakers and don’t detract from the fact that, for most people, the MacBook Air is all the MacBook they’ll need.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/23/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 95% performance: 90% mobility: 95% workmanship: 85%
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Apple M4 8-Core GPU: The graphics adapter that's built into the smallest Apple M4 series SoC, the one that debuted in October 2024 alongside the Fall 2024 iMac. Its gaming performance is slated to be about as good as that of the AMD Radeon 760M.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
M4 (10 cores): An impressively fast ARM architecture processor (SoC) sporting 4 performance and 6 efficient CPU cores along with a 16-core neural engine and a 10-core GPU with hardware RT support and other modern features. On-package 7500 MT/s LPDDR5x RAM, USB 4 support and Thunderbolt 4 support are onboard as well. The M4 debuted in May 2024 as part of an iPad launch event; it is around 10% to 20% faster than the M3 (10-core GPU) chip. Its power consumption differs vastly depending on the system; in Mac minis, it consumes up to 40 W but in iPads, anything above 14 W is off limits.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
13.60":
There are hardly any tablets in this display size range anymore. For subnotebooks, on the other hand, it is the standard format.
The advantage of subnotebooks is that the entire laptop can be small and therefore easily portable. The smaller display also has the advantage of requiring less power, which further improves battery life and thus mobility. The disadvantage is that reading texts is more strenuous on the eyes. High resolutions are more likely to be found in standard laptops.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Apple: Apple is a US company founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company is known for its innovative products such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, and manufactures computers and consumer electronics as well as operating systems and application software. Apple is also a leading provider of software and services such as the App Store, iTunes and iCloud.
Apple has earned a reputation as a company that focuses on design and ease of use. As for their notebooks, they are mostly in the high-priced segment, have their own operating system, but also run Windows on the newer Macbooks.
Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world and has a loyal following of customers and fans. The company also has a strong presence in the entertainment industry, with services like Apple Music and Apple TV+. In 2023, Apple had an approximate 8% market share of global PC sales, ranking it 4th after Lenovo, HP, and Dell.
90.24%: There are not very many models that are rated better. Most of the assessments are in percentage ranges below that. The tested product is not considered perfect, but the sources give a clear purchase recommendation.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
