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Apple M4 MacBook Air review: I have no notes


The only things missing from these Airs are some Pro-only bells and whistles.

And the display notch still feels silly, given that the Mac never added Face ID and things other than the macOS menu bar can't really do anything with that top strip of screen space. Sturdy, functional, familiar design that gets all the basics right M4 is a solid performance increase over M3 and older Apple Silicon chips Great battery life 16GB of RAM and M4 in the $999 base model, $300 less than the equivalent configuration would have cost a year ago Sky Blue looks nice Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS.

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