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title: "M4 MacBook Air: More power, more battery, less price"
description: Explore the powerful and affordable new M4 MacBook Air, offering enhanced performance, impressive battery life, and exciting new features, now starting at just $999.
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# [M4 MacBook Air: More power, more battery, less price](https://www.redsharknews.com/m4-macbook-air-more-power-more-battery-less-price)

 Written by [Andy Stout](https://www.redsharknews.com/author/andy-stout) | Mar 6, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Having sold us the dummy with the new [iPad Air](https://www.redsharknews.com/apple-introduces-m3-powered-ipad-air), Apple eventually got round to delivering the new M4 MacBook Air and, what’s more, shaved $100 off the price.

Yours from a starting price of $999, the new M4 MacBook Air is an impressive looking laptop that now also comes in a new, fetching color of sky blue. 

Available in 13- and 15-inch sizes, it’s also now capable of an impressive 18 hours of battery life, thanks to the optimisation possible from that M4 chip. That itself features a powerful 10-core CPU, an up to 10-core GPU, and support for up to 32 GB of unified memory, making the new MacBook Air up to 2x faster than the M1 model and a whopping 23x faster than the quickest Intel-based machine.

Here come the benchmarks.

- Video editing in iMovie is up to 8x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air, and up to 2x faster than the 13-inch MacBook Air with M1.
- Photo editing in Adobe Photoshop is up to 3.6x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air, and up to 2x faster than the 13-inch MacBook Air with M1.

It also features a new 12MP Center Stage camera, a brilliant 13.6- or 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display with up to 500 nits of brightness, enhanced display support enabling you to drive up to two 6K external displays, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3,  MagSafe charging, and two Thunderbolt ports. There is also a three-mic array and enhanced voice clarity on audio and video calls and an immersive sound system that has support for Spatial Audio along with Dolby Atmos.

That $999 is $100 less than the previous generation, and gives you a base spec 13-inch  machine with 10-Core CPU, 8-Core GPU, 16 GB Unified Memory, and 256 GB SSD Storage. You can pimp that all the way up to 32 GB and 2 TB, as well as adding 2 GPU cores if you feel the need. It's going to be available next week.

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