Credit: Apple The new Apple M4 Macs are finally here. Like many who were waiting on the latest Apple devices before making a purchase, you may be thinking of buying the new M4 MacBook Pro.

Now that Apple ships all Macs with at least 16GB of RAM, the entry-level M4 Mac mini, at $599, is a pretty good deal. So is the base M4 Pro model, which comes with 24GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD and ...

Learn More VS M4 MacBook Pro Bottom Line Apple's latest MacBook Pro sports more ports and RAM for the same starting price.

The latest MacBook Air 15-inch (M4) offers cutting-edge Apple silicon, with some great features, a brilliant thin and light design and some of the best speakers you'll find in a laptop.

Note that we tested the M4 Max in the 16-inch MacBook Pro, and we'd expect any kind of throttling behavior to be slightly more noticeable in the 14-inch Pro since it has less room for cooling ...

And with Apple dropping the price by $100 for the M4 MacBook Air models, the Pro premium is even greater. The 13-inch M4 Air starts at $999, and the 15-inch M4 Air starts at $1,199.

The M4 Pro and M4 Max enable features like mesh shading and ray tracing—Apple says the ray tracing engine is now twice as fast as on the M3 chips. Naturally, they support Apple Intelligence too.

The Apple MacBook Air M4 is available in two distinct display sizes—13.3 inches and 15.3 inches—catering to varied user preferences for portability or a larger viewing experience.

Apple says the MacBook Air M4 has up to 18 hours of battery life. If accurate, that would place it on par with the 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro, which lasted for 18 hours and 31 minutes in our battery test.

The M4 MacBook Air has the same battery as before: a 66.5-watt-hour lithium polymer battery that Apple says offers 15 hours of “wireless web” and 18 hours of “video streaming.” ...

The MacBook Air is now due for its turn. While the laptop didn’t get the M4 chip in the fall, Apple did announce a long-awaited memory boost for the lineup at that time, with the M2 and M3 now ...