Apple rarely offers you more for less, especially in its most popular products with the broadest appeal. It has perfected the measured, iterative year-over-year product cycle. But for the 13- and 15-inch M4 MacBook Airs, Apple has put new chips in its established design while shoring up the device’s biggest flaws and dropping the price by $100.

The MacBook Pro's entry-level version features an Apple M4 chip with a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU. Aside from the entry-level 13-inch model, which has an 8-core GPU, every new MacBook Air is equipped with the same silicon as the Pro.

But does the MacBook Air 15-inch (M4) offer good value for money? And is it worth upgrading if you already own the M3 MacBook Air? We’ve pulled together the biggest reviews from