The Apple M4 released in May of 2024, and now finally it has arrived to the MacBook Air in March of 2025.
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Apple Announces New MacBook Air With M4 and 'Sky Blue' Color Option
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The 15", now starting at $1199 with un-binned M4, is a VERY solid computer and overall value...
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Wonder if this is worth upgrading to from my Midnight 15" M2 Air... I would love to have that M4 chip and am interested in seeing that Sky Blue in person.
Here in Canada the base price of the 13” Air has jumped to $1,399; this +40% vs US price. “Spec bumps” just jumped from $250 to $300 each, meaning 24GB RAM is now $300 more and 512GB storage is now $300 more. The 15” Air now starts at $1,699. A modest 15” Air with 16GB/512GB now costs $1,999 here.
Still with that ridiculous notch thing…? Wish they got rid of it.
The new M4 MBA 15 16/512 with edu discount (in U.S.) is priced exactly the same as the M3 MBA 15 16/512 I ordered a few days ago from Costco. Keep in mind the Costco sale price was actually cheaper than M3 edu pricing. Guess which one is going back?
Probably due to some cost increase. You know Cook 🧑🍳 loves to penny pinch 🤏
not really space grey is just 2 shades darker than silver.
now we have
warm silver (starlight)
neutral (silver)
cold silver (blue)
and dark
very understandable
It kind of reminds me of one of the best iPhone colors ever - Sierra Blue
I’ve always thought Silver was the most popular Apple laptop color. Since they have been introducing these darker colors (Midnight, Space Black, etc), space grey seems to be less popular. Apple seems to have eliminated space grey from basically ALL of its products (MacBook Pro already went to Silver and Space Black; no grey IMac or Mac mini; no space grey iPhones, etc)
If only it didn’t have that stupid stupid display… I don’t want a boring looking 3.000 EUR 16” Pro with fans, I just want a decent display in the Air.
I’ll never get a Mac, been waiting long enough and they’ll never make these machines up to date…☹️
I’ll never get a Mac, been waiting long enough and they’ll never make these machines up to date…☹️
I imaging that is going to feel like going from an iPhone 8 to a 16. I too was just thinking to myself reading the headline „wow there really never was a better time to upgrade“. But in general, any 5yo or older device in itself gives much reason to upgrade. I have a 2017 MBP and I’m waiting for the day that thing dies, because I can finally pull the plug and get what I was hoping I was getting back then (it was my first Mac and it will be my worst Mac). Hope you're gonna enjoy it.
Riveting colors
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Which shade of "looks dirty" would you like?
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Which shade of "looks dirty" would you like?
Seems like if anyone is considering upgrading from the base specs they might as well go with the base Pro which comes with the first tier upgrades plus more ports.
Bummed about not having nano-texture, but the new color is cool. Hmmmm....
Same!! I was Nano-Textured Display so bad!! …might just buy the M4 14” Pro.
At $999 and $1,999 - the M4 MacBook Airs look like better values than the $1,599 MacBook Pro. In particular, unless you need the extra storage, I don’t think the $1,599 MacBook Pro is $600 better than the MacBook Air. But once you start adding storage, the M4 MacBook Pro starts to look better (though I still think the design is unattractive given the weird proportions)
There's a $400 delta on the 24/1TB configuration, which isn't nothing, but having the nano-texture available on the Pro is something I'm considering. Just trying to decide whether it's all worth having a heavier machine to carry around.
I may be biased since I just prefer the Pros since I actually use the USB-C port on the right side (the luxury!)
Just seems like it's one of those rare moments in history where the base model offering of an Apple product is actually sufficient.