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Apple MacBook Air M4 13-inch and 15-inch review: Minimal upgrades at a much better price

No surprises, but its lower starting price of $999 is welcome.

Devindra Hardawar for EngadgetApple's M4 chip — which sports a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU and 16-core Neural Engine (or what you'd call an NPU in a PC) — is the main upgrade with these new MacBook Airs. Devindra Hardawar for EngadgetBoth the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Airs handled my basic workflow without a sweat: juggling browsers with a ton of open tabs, Slack, Spotify, messaging apps and the Pixelmator photo editor. While I'd bet most users would be fine with the base $999 13-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of storage, it may be worth jumping up to the $1,199 model with a 10-core GPU and 512GB SSD if you plan to do light media work.

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