Key Takeaways Apple released the M4 MacBook Air earlier this month. Several reviews suggest that upgrading is worth it. The latest version has a new M4 chip that improves speed and performance, which reviewers said is apparent when compared to older models.

The price cut is going to sting for those who purchased the M3 MacBook Air in the last 12 months, but for everyone else, this is a win.

Still, the new M4 MacBook Air is impressively powerful. I put it through GeekBench's CPU test and got great results: a 3,778 single-core score, and a 14,992 multi-core score. That's considerably faster than any earlier Mac when it comes to single-core operation, and roughly on par with an M2 Max when it comes to multi-core operation.