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Apple MacBook Air 13 M4 Entry

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Apple MacBook Air 13 M4 Entry
Apple MacBook Air 13 M4 Entry (MacBook Air 13 M4 Series)
Processor
Apple M4 (10 cores) 10 x 2.9 - 4.5 GHz, 20 W PL2 / Short Burst, 8 W PL1 / Sustained
Graphics adapter
Apple M4 8-core GPU, 15.5 W TDP
Memory
16 GB 
, LPDDR5-7500, Dual-Channel, onboard
Display
13.60 inch 16:10, 2560 x 1664 pixel 225 PPI, IPS, glossy: yes, 60 Hz
Storage
Apple SSD AP0256Z, 256 GB 
, 206 GB free
Connections
2 USB 4.0 40 Gbps, 2 Thunderbolt, USB-C Power Delivery (PD), 2 DisplayPort, Audio Connections: 3.5 mm Stereo, 1 Fingerprint Reader, Brightness Sensor
Networking
Broadcom 0x14E4, 0x4388 WiFi 6E AirPort (a/b/g/n = Wi-Fi 4/ac = Wi-Fi 5/ax = Wi-Fi 6/ Wi-Fi 6E 6 GHz), Bluetooth 5.3
Size
height x width x depth (in mm): 11.3 x 304.1 x 215
Battery
53.8 Wh Lithium-Polymer
Operating System
Apple macOS 15 Sequoia
Camera
Webcam: 12 MP Center Stage
Primary Camera: 12 MPix
Additional features
Speakers: 4‑speaker audio system, Keyboard: Chiclet, Keyboard Light: yes, 30W PSU, 12 Months Warranty
Weight
1.225 kg, Power Supply: 170 g
Price
1039 Euro

 

Price comparison

Average Score: 90.24% - very good
Average of 5 scores (from 6 reviews)
price: 95%, performance: 80%, features: 65%, display: 85% mobility: 88%, workmanship: 87%, ergonomy: 95%, emissions: 95%

Reviews for the Apple MacBook Air 13 M4 Entry

91.2% 被动冷却的 M4 SoC 让竞争对手显得老气横秋 -Apple MacBook Air 13 M4 入门评测 | Notebookcheck
全新 MacBook Air 13 的基本机型配备了速度极快的 M4 处理器,除了纤薄的机身外,还提供了亮丽的 IPS 显示屏、静音运行和超长电池续航时间--至少在亮度降低的情况下是如此。
90% Apple MacBook Air M4 Review
Source: Trusted Reviews English EN→zh-CN
The MacBook Air M4 is an easy sell. It’s the complete package for most people, and if you want a better screen or options of a more powerful chip then there’s the MacBook Pro M4. The lower price combined with the bump in memory to 16GB across the board makes this a fantastic deal – how often can that be said about Apple’s products? There’s nothing to entice anyone happy with their M3 or M2 models, aside from some slight performance gains and a few extra hours of endurance, but if you jumped on the Apple Silicon bandwagon early with the M1 then this is a worthy upgrade. My only real criticism is that the screen is starting to show its age compared to the best laptops and best ultrabooks. It’s perfectly fine, but without ProMotion, a matte option and no OLED variant, this is the only area I want to see upgraded on the next model.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/16/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Apple MacBook Air M4 (2025) Review: The Default Laptop For Everyone?
Source: Think Digit English EN→zh-CN
The 13-inch Apple MacBook Air M4 (2025) is arguably the best value-for-money MacBook Apple has ever made. With double the RAM, a fresh new look, and that brilliant M4 chip—all at a lower price than the M3 variant, it’s hard not to recommend it. It’s not a gaming beast, and it’s not made for long-hour heavy renders. But for everyone else—students, writers, designers, coders, content creators, the M4 MacBook Air offers silent performance, unmatched battery life, a premium display, and one of the most travel-friendly form factor in the industry. For ₹99,900, there are very few laptops in 2025 that offers this much efficiency, build quality, and power in such a compact and elegant package.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/07/2025
Apple iPad Air (M3) review: Air in name, Pro in performance
Source: The Indian Express English EN→zh-CN
Apple’s vision for the iPad has evolved through different phases. The new iPad Air is very similar to last year’s model but also feels different. It still feels like an iPad, but there’s a subtle hint that the device is awfully close to the iPad Pro. It perfectly represents what a tablet should be—thin and light, fast enough to run all the must-have apps, yet capable of functioning as a personal computer. That’s exactly how Apple wants you to see the iPad: part tablet, part Mac. I spent a week with the iPad Air M3, and here are my observations.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/28/2025
80% iPad Air M3 13-inch review: The pro experience without paying for it
Source: India Today English EN→zh-CN
Compared to the iPad Air M2, the new one is a marginal bump in its capabilities, design and feature set. So, it is good to see that Apple has kept the price of the iPad Air unchanged. It still starts at Rs 59,900 for the 11-inch variant and Rs 79,900 for the iPad Air M3 13-inch. In other words, the iPad Air M3 is for those who are buying their first proper tablet or those who are upgrading from vanilla or old iPads. For such users, it is near perfect. The M3 chip, in particular, offers substantial performance, approaching pro-level capabilities, making it a great value.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/26/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
100% Apple MacBook Air (M4, 2025) review: Blue sky thinking
Source: Expert Reviews English EN→zh-CN
Ultimately, the M4 MacBook Air is a great laptop but it isn’t a revolution. Apple has reacted to Windows laptops catching up on battery life by dropping the price, upping the base specification and keeping the rest of the laptop as is. That’s mostly good news and it means – after a brief hiatus – the MacBook Air is once more the laptop of choice, stripping that honour away from the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7. It’s the laptop I recommend most people buy if they want a reliable, do-it-all machine capable of everything from writing laptop reviews and watching YouTube to heavy-duty tasks such as 4K video editing and 3D design. Whether it will stay there for long, however, is up to the big Windows laptop box shifters.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/24/2025
Rating: Total score: 100%
90% Apple 13-inch MacBook Air (M4) review: A clean knock-out
Source: Hardware Zone English EN→zh-CN
The new MacBook Air may not be as seminal a machine as the recently updated Mac Mini, but it’s easily one of the best MacBook Airs Apple has ever released. It’s powerful, well-built, thin and light, has a long battery life, and is even cheaper than the model it replaces. Furthermore, it now comes with 16GB of memory as standard, which addresses one of our longest-standing and biggest issues with Apple’s base configuration MacBooks. However, it’s not perfect. The Liquid Retina display is starting to look outdated now given that most Windows laptops are steadily transitioning to OLED displays. Throttling can be an issue on longer or more intensive workloads. Also, having just 256GB and two USB-C ports is a bit miserly. Thankfully, none of these are dealbreakers and don’t detract from the fact that, for most people, the MacBook Air is all the MacBook they’ll need.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/23/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 95% performance: 90% mobility: 95% workmanship: 85%

Comment

Apple M4 8-Core GPU: 2024 年 10 月,与新款 iMac 一起亮相的最小的Apple M4 系列 SoC 中内置了图形适配器。目前还不清楚这是否是禁用了两个内核的 10 核 M4 GPU,还是Apple 现在实际上制造了一个全新的 M4 SoC,在设计上减少了 CPU 和 GPU 内核。其性能预计与 AMD Radeon 760M 不相上下。

 

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.


M4 (10 cores): ARM 架构的片上系统 (SoC),具有 10 个 CPU 内核(4 个性能内核和 6 个效率内核)、一个 16 核神经引擎和一个支持 RT 的 10 核 GPU。M4 于 2024 年 5 月推出,是 iPad 发布会的一部分;根据早期数据,这款 3 纳米芯片的速度将比 M3 快 10% 至 25%。» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.


13.60":

大体上,这个屏幕尺寸常见于亚笔记本电脑,超极本和变形本中。对这三类产品来说这个尺寸都较大。亚笔记本中尺寸最大的机型是采用这个屏幕尺寸。

大尺寸可以让屏幕有更高的分辨率。因而例如字体等的细节将会更丰富。不过另一方面,小屏幕的功耗会较低,而设备也会更轻盈小巧,售价更低。

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.


1.225 kg: 这是10到11寸大尺寸平板电脑,小型亚笔记本,超极本和变形本的常见重量。


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Stefan Hinum (Update: 2025-07-21)