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Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one

Not a surprising generational update, but a lot of progress for just one year.

We've already talked a bunch about the M4 and M4 Pro in our reviews of the new iMac and the new Mac minis, but to recap, the M4 is a solid generational upgrade over the M3, thanks to its two extra efficiency cores on the CPU side. This particularly benefits the $1,599 M4 MacBook Air, which jumps from 8GB to 16GB M4 and M4 Max are both respectable generational upgrades and offer substantial performance boosts from Intel or even M1 Macs M4 Pro is a huge generational leap, as Apple's M3 Pro used a more conservative design Nano-texture display coating is very nice and not too expensive relative to the price of the laptops Better multi-monitor support for M4 version Other design things—ports, 120 Hz screen, keyboard, and trackpad—are all mostly the same as before and are all very 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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