Review MacBook Air (M4, 2025) 15 inches: Bluer and better

M4 also provides its AI MacBook Air with Apple Intelligence. The 38 peaks of the local AI processing process through a faster 16 -core nerve engine make M4 MacBook Air closer to 48 tops on Intel's Lunar lake chip and 45 pipes of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X.

This is difficult to evaluate, because Apple's intelligence is Many still unfinishedBut there are several new third -party applications that Apple is introducing to use Apple Intelligence right in the box in third -party applications, such as notes, Bear applications. Now you can do things like automatically formatting text into tables or summarizing the report. It also comes with Image Playground, Siri's update version with TATGPT integration and more. On the other hand, you have never necessary Handling AI quickly to get Apple's intelligence, because the AI ​​tasks on old devices just run on Apple's own cloud calculation system.

The raw performance increase that you will see on the M4 MacBook Air on M3 last year is the GPU faster than 22 %, 31 % multi -core and 18 % core, measured in Cinebench R24. It is a really solid step for a generation, especially in single core performance, where Apple Silicon continues to dominate the competition. In terms of graphics, also double the efficiency from m2. Whether you are editing photos or making 3D models, that is enough for feel The difference if you come from M1 or M2 MacBook Air.

As for all MacBook Airs, it is an absolutely unposure machine. It feels amazing at certain points, especially when you are in applications as a game. I whipped out Baldur gate 3And while it is different from the ideal performance, the system is completely silent means that you will not even need a headset to play. But at 1200p, medium installation and upgrade, not too difficult to find the balance of performance and image quality that feel interesting. Achieving that performance without fans is not possible on any other laptop right now.

Of course, the disadvantage of not admiring is that you do not receive much from M4 as on a system with positive cooling, namely 14 -inch MacBook Pro. The system of the air has to reduce the frequency to prevent a crisis, and even remain, I recorded the CPU temperature to 102 degrees Celsius high. Fortunately, the surface temperature could never be tolerated during my time with it, even when running under the full load.

Photo: Luke Larsen