The MacBook Air 13-inch M4 became the new thin, long-lasting, top-notch value Apple laptop when it launched on March 12, 2025, gracefully succeeding the Air M3 that launched about a year prior. But ...
Apple’s new M4 MacBook Air is an easy product to recommend to just about everyone—even M3 owners. But if you’re currently holding on to an M1 MacBook Air, what exactly will the new M4 model get you?
I thought I had this figured out. I was making a hard-headed decision to buy a refurbed M1 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM for half the price of a new M4 one, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment. But, ...