Apple MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon for $799, a competitive price for its latest ultraportable.
The M4 Air supports up to two external monitors with the lid open, and scales up to 32GB of unified memory.
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The MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon, starting at $799 for the 16GB version.
Before Apple announced the MacBook Air M4 in early 2025, rumors abounded on what new features the ultraportable would come with.
Partly because it was the last of Apple's core line of devices to get the M4 chip, and partly because, well, last year's MacBook Air M3 was (and still is) one of the best laptops we've tested -- a future-proofed "AI computer for the masses" that could be seen as a successful culmination of Apple's design.
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At no point can the Apple machine stop producing, however, so with the MacBook Air M4, it was apparent it would be an incremental upgrade, refining what made last year's version great while offering a little bit more for less cost to the consumer.
The MacBook Air M4, for example, starts at $999 for the 13-inch configuration with 16GB of memory -- $100 less than last year's M3. At the same time, the hardware expands on both the low and high end, with the lowest-tier configuration of the M4 equipped with a 10-core CPU and 8-core GPU, in contrast to the 8-core M3 chip from last year.
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