Apple's M4 MacBook Air is shaping up to be an affordable powerhouse. In newly released benchmarks, it performs almost as well as the M4 MacBook Pro, all for $600 less.

The Apple MacBook Air M3 is the brand's thin and light laptop series, and it's also Apple's entry-level machine compared to the more expensive (and heavier) MacBook Pro line. The question then becomes,

Apple’s MacBook Air, arguably the most popular Mac and a laptop that regularly sits near the top of our best laptops list, is finally getting the M4 chip, a piece of Apple silicon that first appeared in the iPad Pro last year and later the MacBook Pro.