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Tom's Guide
29-07-2025
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Tom's Guide Awards 2025: Our favorite laptops, monitors, tablets and more
No matter if you need a powerful laptop for creative work, a lightweight 2-in-1 for on-the-go productivity, or a gaming laptop with crisp graphics and high frame rates, the world of computing has never looked brighter. From AI-powered laptops with extra processing power and dual-mode monitors that support multiple resolutions, to blazing fast Wi-Fi 7 routers for lightning-fast downloads and security software designed to help keep you safe online, you have loads of different options for your next upgrade. We've tried the best computing and home office gear you can get. Our team of experts has tested and reviewed all of the latest laptops, tablets, monitors, accessories and networking gear for the Tom's Guide Awards 2025. Below, we highlight our favorite computers, displays and essential gear from the last 12 months which have made doing our own jobs a bit easier. The latest 13-inch MacBook Air M4 is the best MacBook for most people. Though it retains the same design as its two immediate predecessors, this thin and lightweight laptop delivers astonishing performance and long-lasting battery life. The fact that it starts at $999, which is $100 cheaper than before, makes the MacBook Air M4 a no-brainer choice. As before, the 13-inch MacBook Air 13-inch M4 features a 13.6-inch Retina display that's ideal for everyday work, watching videos and playing games. The M4 chip inside has more than enough power to handle whatever you throw at it. Apple's silicon also allows the laptop to last for nearly 15 hours on a single charge. On top of that, you get a responsive keyboard and MagSafe charging in an elegant ultraportable design. Thanks to everything it offers, the MacBook Air M4 is still the MacBook to beat and easily earns its award for best laptop of 2025. The MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo is an excellent Windows ultraportable with AI features that are actually useful in day-to-day work. The model we reviewed came with a high-end Intel Core Ultra 9 285H CPU inside, and while its NPU (Neural Processing Unit) can't match the power of Apple silicon or Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chips it's more than capable of helping out with AI tasks. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. That frees up the CPU and Intel Arc GPU for other tasks and helps you cut down on battery usage, especially if you enable the AI Engine feature that automatically adjusts the laptop's settings to help you achieve peak battery life. Additional AI features like noise cancellation, Windows Studio Effects and the AI Lan Manager (which automatically analyzes your network traffic and tries to reduce latency) integrate seamlessly into your work day without distracting you, giving us the first real taste of how an AI laptop should work. Plus, it's just a nice laptop. The 16-inch 1600p display gives you plenty of screen real estate, and the spacious full keyboard is comfy to type on. It's also surprisingly light and easy to carry (for a 16-inch laptop) at just 3.5 pounds and 0.7 inches thin. The Wi-Fi 7 support and useful port array are nice to have, as is the 15+ hours of (tested) battery life we recorded in our testing lab. So while the MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo might not put AI features front and center, the subtle integration of them into this already excellent laptop make it the best AI laptop we've tested all year. The ZSA Moonlander looks a little odd at first, but once you get to grips with how it works you'll appreciate what a smartly designed keyboard this is—especially if you like to tinker and fine-tune your desk setup. We think it's the best keyboard we've reviewed all year because of its one-two punch of great ergonomic design and robust customization software. The Moonlander is modular and customizable, so you can push one side away and use only the left half when PC gaming or use the built-in legs to tent each half off the desk so it feels comfortable under your hands. The mechanical switches are easy to swap out, too thanks to the fact that ZSA includes a keypuller (as well as a carrying case) with every keyboard. The Moonlander also has a pair of unique 'Meh' and 'Hyper' keys that trigger complicated key combos when pressed (pressing Meh defaults to Ctrl + Shift + Alt, for example, while pressing Hyper triggers Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Windows/Command), so you can use them to easily build your own unique keyboard shortcuts using ZSA's Keymapp software. This software is the best we've ever seen for a keyboard, as it allows you to not only rebind any key on the keyboard but also create custom layers of commands for each key that can be further customized based on whichever app you happen to be using. You can even use the software to see heat maps of which keys you use most and run through typing drills to test your new configuration, making this a keyboard you can easily fine-tune to your exact needs. Oh, and did we mention there's a modding community? For all of these reasons and more, the ZSA Moonlander is the best keyboard we've tested this year. The Alienware Area-51 lives up to its name thanks to its otherworldly design. It demands a steep asking price, but it's worth every penny thanks to the incredible gaming performance it delivers. If you're looking for a beast of a gaming laptop, this is the one. This gaming laptop's Liquid Teal anodized aluminum chassis gives it a distinctive iridescent sheen that shifts colors when viewed under different lighting conditions. The RGB lighting on the back mimics the motion of the aurora borealis, which adds to the alien-like flair. The clear Gorilla Glass window on the bottom lets you see inside the laptop, which is also fancy. Inside, the Alienware Area-51 packs a fast Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and up to a powerful RTX 5090 GPU. Toss in up to 64GB of RAM, and you have a powerful gaming rig that can deftly handle the most graphically demanding games, especially with DLSS 4 enabled. And of course, said games look astonishing on the laptop's 16-inch 240Hz display. PC gaming has been dominated for decades by one thing — dedicated GPUs. They have been the driving force behind gaming laptops for ages now, but something fascinating is starting to happen. Bit by bit, integrated graphics are no longer becoming a dirty word, but rather a great way to play games while being more power efficient. And the Asus ROG Flow Z13 is the pinnacle of this in 2025, and easily the best 2-in-1 of the year. With AMD Ryzen AI Max inside, you're getting up to the same performance as a whole RTX 4070 without the additional power drain of a dedicated GPU. Throw in a gorgeous display, slimline construction, an impressive battery life and the best keyboard I've ever used on a 2-in-1, and you're onto a winner for gaming on-the-go. While the LG UltraGear 45GX950A-B is a gaming monitor, we actually think it's one of the best monitors for productivity. That's because of its 45-inch ultrawide 21:9 curved display that allows you to easily have multiple windows open across the screen. If you want to boost your productivity, this giant monitor will help you. For gaming, this monitor's main draw is that it has two display modes: 5K resolution at 165Hz and 2K resolution at 330Hz. The former is ideal for cinematic games, while the latter is made for competitive games. The OLED panel also delivers fantastic contrast and vivid colors. Though big and expensive, this is one of the best monitors for productivity. If you want the absolute best of the best in AR glasses, the clear option is Xreal One Pro. The price may be a little steep compared to its competition (and the Xreal One), but the technology here is a generational leap forward. AR glasses experts like me have been looking for two key things to happen — make the display bigger with a wider field of view, and make said display tech smaller. Up until this point, we've dealt with what are called 'bird baths' in the industry: the giant glass prisms you see behind the lenses of specs that project the image into your eyes. Xreal has managed to drastically reduce the size of these with their own flat prism tech, which makes this pair of glasses a lot more inconspicuous on the face. And on top of that, the company has packed a giant 1080p display with great color reproduction and a 57-degree field of view. But the real magic here is that X1 chip built into the glasses. For all of the fancy spatial computing tricks so far like creating multiple monitors through your specs of 3DoF tracking, you normally have to rely on software to do it. That brings compatibility issues and potential latency between software and glasses. On Xreal One Pro, however, you've got all of this done through silicon via this one-of-a-kind chip — which can project an ultrawide display perfectly tracked to the back of an airplane seat wherever you want. The Insta360 Link 2C is the only webcam we've ever awarded a 5-star rating too, and that's thanks to its ability to capture sharp and detailed stills, next-gen AI subject tracking and autofocus. It's one of the most premium snappers on the market, utilizing a combination of plastic and metal to deliver a sturdy webcam. What we love most about the Link 2C is just how many details it captures with its 1/2-inch sensor. We could see fine details in our faces when we tested it, and really appreciated its ability to record and transmit 4K/30fps and 1080P/60fps video. It's also equipped with AI features such as hand tracking and gestures, as well as product prioritization which puts the object closest to the lens in focus. There really isn't a better professional webcam out there — at least not one that makes you look like you're dressed to the nines at such a low price tag. It's hard to improve on excellence, but the iPad Air M3 manages to do it anyway. It's not a revolutionary jump over its predecessor, the iPad Air M2, but with the might of Apple's M3 chip onboard, not only does it deliver helpful Apple Intelligence features, but also a way to breeze through demanding apps and even play AAA titles at a steady frame rate. All in that minimalist, lightweight design with an incredibly vivid display? That's a tablet that deserves praise. Apple has found something magical in putting full-blown MacBook chips into its tablets, and the latest iPad Air never fails to impress in terms of bringing speedy performance to a tablet. With an updated Magic Keyboard (albeit pricey) boasting a 14-key function row and larger touchpad, this tablet can easily be a laptop alternative, and that already says a lot. Throw in its usual sharp 11-inch (2360 x 1640) Liquid Retina display, good near 10-hour battery life and thin, portable design, and the iPad Air M3 shows why Apple's tablets still wear the crown. Upgrading to a Wi-Fi 7-powered router used to cost a fortune but that's no longer the case as the latest wireless standard is inching closer to becoming mainstream. While still on the expensive side, the $500 Netgear Nighthawk RS600 gives you blazing fast speeds and all of Wi-Fi 7's best features at a much lower price than the company's RS700 router from a few years ago. The Nighthawk RS600 is a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router that comes in a much smaller package than the top-of-the-line RS700. Thanks to its 10 gigabit per second (Gbps) input port, this router is ideal for multi-gig internet plans and in our testing, it reached speeds of 1.4 Gbps at close range. However, it was at middle distances where other routers often fall short that the RS600 really excelled. If you're after a high-performance Wi-Fi 7 router that isn't priced like one, Netgear's Nighthawk RS600 delivers and then some. The main thing that sets Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7-powered routers apart from previous Wi-Fi generations is support for the faster 6 GHz band. Well, with the ZenWiFi BQ16 Pro, Asus doubled down on this to achieve some of the fastest speeds we've seen yet from a mesh Wi-Fi system. During our testing, it reached a max speed of 2.6 Gbps, making it one of if not the fastest router we've tested yet. The reason for this is that the ZenWiFi BQ16 Pro is a quad-band mesh router with dual 6 GHz bands. Besides its blazing fast speeds, we also really appreciate how Asus includes its built-in AiProtection security software for free while other companies require a monthly subscription for similar solutions. Likewise, thanks to the USB port on the back of the ZenWiFi BQ16 Pro, you can also connect your phone and use its mobile hotspot to keep your home network running during an internet outage. This mesh Wi-Fi system also features not one but two 10 Gbps Ethernet ports so you can take full advantage of even the fastest internet speeds. If you want a mesh Wi-Fi system that's as fast as it is capable, the Asus ZenWiFi BQ16 Pro is easy to recommend. Norton 360 Deluxe has a lot to offer those in need of a security suite – and we mean a lot. In addition to excellent real-time malware protection against everything from botnets and brute force attacks it adds a long list of additional features that protect you and your devices while you're online. Apps can be started in sandbox mode, your webcam access can be blocked, and Safe Search can show you a warning if you navigate over to any websites that might be shady. There's a rescue disk that will give you an ISO (digital copy) to protect your data in case of a ransomware attack, and you still get dark web scanning, a software check that scans for outdated programs, cloud backup, parental controls, a password manager, a VPN and a firewall. That's an awful lot all under a single subscription, and Norton's fee will cover five devices annually. During testing, we appreciated the multiple scan options which were all speedy and didn't make a dent in overall performance, as well as a familiar and easy to navigate interface that made it easy to find functions and advanced features alike. In independent testing, Norton performed well in blocking general and targeted virus attacks, but did produce a high rate of false positives. We recommend Norton as our best features pick for obvious reasons, but it's also a good choice for anyone who has multiple devices to cover and doesn't want to pay extra for features to stay safe online. NordVPN is practically a household name at this point – and for good reason. In our reivew, it sailed through our privacy checks with flying colors, and multiple independent audits back up its solid no-logs policy. NordVPN is also seriously powerful when it comes to unblocking regional libraries on sites like Netflix and Disney Plus – earning it a spot on our guide to the best VPNs for streaming. With apps for almost every platform imaginable, it's a great choice whether you're an occasional VPN user looking to unblock streaming content and improve your online privacy, or a journalist working in a dangerous, restrictive country. Additional features like Meshnet and Threat Protection Pro – the latter independently rated as the best VPN-bundled malware protection by AV-TEST – add to NordVPN's impressive package of privacy tech. Overall, no VPN can match NordVPN completeness as a privacy suite, and excellent pricing is the icing on the cake. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Yahoo
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch M4 review: Cheaper and better
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Apple's MacBook Air 13-inch M4 is not a perfect laptop, but at its new starting price of $999, it is the perfect laptop for many people. Outwardly, little has changed, but internally the new M4 chip has the Air once again outpacing most of its Windows on ARM rivals with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips, while still delivering over 15 hours of battery life. You also can't see the upgraded Center Stage webcam, but the difference will jump off the screen at you the first time you use it. Some minor complaints remain, like its limited ports and wishing Apple would make the move to a 120Hz refresh rate or even new display tech, but the $100 price drop helps cover over issues that most Air buyers would likely never worry about. Read on for a closer look at what makes the MacBook Air 13-inch M4 stand out from the crowd to earn a spot among our best laptops. Click to view full benchmark test results The price is arguably the biggest upgrade for the MacBook Air 13-inch M4 with all configurations dropping by $100 compared to their predecessors. This is notable not only because we are seeing prices climb on many other consumer electronics in 2025, but also because of the upgrade to 16GB of RAM on the base MacBook Air that Apple announced in October 2024, which remains in place for the new M4 models. The base configuration of the MacBook Air 13-inch M4 returns to $999 after Apple moved to $1,099 for the base price of the Air with 2022's MacBook Air 13-inch M2. The base model includes 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and an Apple M4 with a 10-core CPU and 8-core GPU. While the base price is outstanding, upgrades remain as expensive as ever. You'll want to choose your additions carefully or risk spoiling the great value offered. My review unit is a configuration I would recommend for most people, for $1,199 your storage is doubled to 512GB, and you get the slightly enhanced M4 configuration with a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU. Extra storage is almost always welcome, as a full hard drive will slow your laptop down in the future. However, there are more immediate reasons to make this choice that I'll address in the performance and heat section. If you're a power user on the edge of opting for a MacBook Pro, you may also want to consider paying the $200 to upgrade to 24GB of RAM. It's worth noting that if you are a student, the parent of a student, a faculty member, or staff at any school, or a homeschool teacher, you are eligible to shop through Apple's Education Store, which will take another $100 off the price of any configuration. The MacBook Air 13-inch M4 still falls into the premium laptop category, but it is one of the most affordable options. Apple is no longer keeping the old MacBook Air around as a cheaper option, so outside of sales on the older models (while there is still stock), if you need something cheaper, you may want to consider one of the best Chromebooks. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the price drop we just covered, the MacBook Air 13-inch M4 design remains completely unchanged from last year, save for replacing the "Space Gray" colorway with "Sky Blue." I recently reviewed the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge, which comes in what Samsung calls 'Sapphire Blue,' and I feel similarly gaslit by Apple's 'Sky Blue.' Both laptops look silver unless you place them next to a silver laptop. 'Hint of Blue' or 'Is that Blue?' would be more accurate names. Please Apple, let the iMac team share the love with one of its actually fun pastel hues. Prosaic Pantone protests aside, the overall design of the MacBook Air remains excellent. I love intriguing new laptop designs like Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 with its rollable display, but a traditional clamshell laptop design done well is still a perfect fit for many people. The bezels around the display aren't the smallest that I've ever seen, but they aren't distractingly large either. At 2.7 pounds and 12 x 8.46 x 0.44 inches, the MacBook Air remains one of the thinnest and lightest laptops around, even beating the best Ultrabooks. Here's how it holds up to its closest rivals: Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x: 2.8 pounds, 12.8 x 8.8 x 0.51 inches MacBook Air 13-inch M3: 2.7 pounds, 12 x 8.46 x 0.44 inches Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (Q425): 3 pounds, 12.3 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches Image 1 of 2 Image 2 of 2 The MacBook Air 13 M4's port selection remains as light as the laptop itself. I remain pleased that Apple brought back MagSafe to keep its two Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 ports free, but competitors do manage to squeeze more into similarly sized laptops. 2 x Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 Type-C 1 x MagSafe 3 1 x headphone mic/jack It would obviously compromise the current internal design of the laptop, but it's also regrettable only the headphone jack is on the right side, the MagSafe 3 and Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 ports are all stacked up on the left side, which makes things a little crowded if you do need to make use of all the ports. If you need more ports than the MacBook Air 13-inch M4 offers, we've tested and reviewed the best MacBook docking stations and best USB Type-C hubs to identify the perfect port partner for your Apple laptop. Battery life stopped being a concern for the MacBook Air when Apple Silicon arrived in 2020. This remains true with the MacBook Air 13-inch M4, eclipsing the 15-hour mark like its predecessor. You will see less than that if you push the laptop at full brightness, but I'm still giving that the "all-day battery life" stamp of approval. While the competition is stronger than ever for the laptops with the best battery life, the Air is still holding up exceptionally well, particularly when considering performance, which I'll address later. On the Laptop Mag battery test, which involves navigating a set group of websites with video and static images while the display is set at 150 nits of brightness, the MacBook Air 13 M4 lasted an average of 15 hours and 30 minutes. Here's how that stacks up against the battery life of the Air M4's rivals. Click to view chart data in table format The MacBook Air 13-inch M4 features a 13.6-inch 2560 x 1664 Liquid Retina LCD. It's not the most feature-packed panel, but with the Air returning to a sub-$1,000 starting price I'm willing to accept it. I watched the trailer for The Surfer on YouTube in enhanced 1080p for my real-world testing, and the wild and highly stylized look of the Nick Cage vehicle did not disappoint on the Air's display. While the Air doesn't have the most colorful panel I've seen on a laptop, it's sharp and very color-accurate, which made it an effective canvas for the heavily filtered look of the tense thriller. Brightness is stellar, with the Air M4 averaging 463 nits in our testing. In practical terms, you'll be fine in anything other than direct sunlight, so you have nothing to fear from that table next to the window in your local coffee shop. Click to view chart data in table format. While Lenovo isn't in danger of losing its crown as high ruler of the laptop keyboard kingdom, the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines have established outstanding consistency since the dark days of the butterfly keyboard that Apple left behind in 2020. While the key travel is still relatively shallow at 1mm, the keys spring back quickly, allowing me to type at a fast pace without sacrificing accuracy. In the typing test, I hit 92 words per minute with 99% accuracy, beating my average of 88 words per minute with 99% accuracy. I find the keyboard comfortable to type on all day, but if you are more sensitive to key travel, you may want to either check out our best laptops for writers or pair the MacBook Air M4 with one of the best keyboards. The touchpad measures 5 x 3.1 inches, which is large without dominating the deck of the laptop. Apple certainly started the massive touchpad trend, but it's far from the biggest around anymore. I think Apple found the right place to stop, there's plenty of room to navigate and use multi-finger gestures, but I'm not left wondering where to rest my hands when typing. Ultimately, I will typically opt for one of the best wireless mice over using a built-in touchpad, but Apple's is certainly one of the best. Apple's most portable laptop still features a quad-speaker system with support for Spatial Audio. While bass remains elusive, it's an impressive feat of engineering that allows a laptop this thin-and-light to easily fill my office with clear sound and even create a surround sound effect. Listening to one of my typical workday playlists, Relaxing Film Scores, 'Chaos Is a Ladder' from season 3 of Game of Thrones proved a suitable test for the laptop's speakers as the song starts with a swirling resonance that moved around the room and then builds to a powerful crescendo that overtook my office entirely. The built-in speakers in the MacBook Air 13-inch M4 are better than they have any right to be, but they still can't beat the best wireless headphones or best computer speakers if you are looking for the best possible audio experience. The MacBook Air 13-inch M4 is powered by a 10-core Apple M4 CPU, which represents a fairly significant performance boost over the M3, helping the Air once again challenge some of the strong Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite laptops that arrived in mid-2024. The most notable jump among our benchmarks was the HandBrake video transcoding test, where the Air M4 shaved a full two minutes off the time it took to convert a 4k video to 1080p, dropping from 7:40 to 5:40. While the Air isn't going to supplant the MacBook Pro on our best video editing laptops page, it's certainly capable if the need arises. I mentioned in the price and configuration section that there was another reason to upgrade from the 256GB to 512GB SSD, and that is the speed of those respective drives. In our testing, the 512GB SSD has an 80% faster write speed than the 256GB SSD. Now if you are doing basic productivity work that isn't something you'll likely notice, but if you are doing video or photo work where you are manipulating and moving large files, it will make a perceptible difference. When it comes to general tasks, like loading up far more Chrome tabs and windows than is wise, the Air M4 is also game and was able to handle three windows with roughly six tabs each, including three running 1080p YouTube videos. The Apple M4 will be game for as much of this kind of workload as you can throw at it, but if you are like me and have questionable windows management habits, you may want to pay to upgrade the RAM to 24 or even 32GB. Despite this powerful performance, the Air M4 manages to keep its cool, with the hottest point on the laptop only reaching 85.2 degrees Fahrenheit in our testing. That's well below our 95-degree comfort threshold, making it a laptop-friendly laptop. Click to view chart data in table format. Is gaming improving on Apple laptops? Absolutely. Apple's integrated graphics performance is getting better and the company is working to bring more titles natively to macOS. With that said, if gaming is a primary interest on your laptop, you will still want to choose one of the best gaming laptops or best cheap gaming laptops over any MacBook, let alone the MacBook Air 13 M4. Of the four gaming benchmarks we ran on the MacBook Air M4, only two achieved our 30 frames per second playability standard. Those were the Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm benchmark and Shadow of the Tomb Raider; those games are over 6 years old, if your plans include modern AAA titles, look elsewhere. Click to view chart data in table format. There are several Apple Intelligence features available on the MacBook Air 13-inch M4, but as with most of the best AI PCs, we are still in the early days of AI with the features always improving. The Air M4 is certainly well-equipped from a hardware standpoint to deliver on the promise of Apple Intelligence. Writing Tools are one of the more universally applicable Apple Intelligence features available currently, offering editorial advice on your writing throughout macOS and summarizing long text passages and notifications. Several image-based AI features allow you to generate images like Genmoji and Image Playground or craft memory movies from your photos and videos. Finally, Siri gains some expanded features with AI including integration with ChatGPT. The MacBook Air 13-inch M4 benefits from an upgrade to a 12MP Center Stage camera, and it is equally as impressive as the one found in the MacBook Pro 14-inch M4. The camera produces a sharp image that tolerates shifting lighting conditions better than some of the best webcams. Even deliberately tiling it to catch the glare from the overhead lighting in my office, the camera adjusted effectively to avoid blowing out the image, a common failing of built-in webcams. Apple also added Desk View, allowing you to show your desktop and your face on camera simultaneously. This is a niche feature, but it works well for those that need it. I hope to see other laptop manufacturers rise to the challenge now that Apple has brought a high-quality webcam to its entire laptop lineup, we still see far too many weak webcams in 2025, considering the prevalence of video calling for work and personal use. The MacBook Air 13 M4 comes with macOS Sequoia 15.3, which means the typical assortment of Apple apps installed by default. However, Apple is good about avoiding bloatware, so you shouldn't have anything too pressing to remove. Particularly if you have other devices in the Apple ecosystem, there are benefits to using Apple's native apps like Notes, so consider giving them a try if you haven't previously. The MacBook Air 13-inch M4 ships with a typical one-year limited warranty, but it can be extended with AppleCare+ for $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year on the MacBook Air 13-inch. AppleCare+ gives you access to technical support and reduced repair costs, including a $99 fee to repair screen or external enclosure damage or $299 for other accidental damage. Apple hit the sweet spot with this laptop, delivering an affordable option that should check all the boxes for a swath of users. The MacBook Air 13-inch M4 feels like the return of the original M1 Air. It's an undeniable value that will give you years of excellent performance, even if you pick up the base model. My limited complaints are also similar to those of the M1 Air, there are features that the vast majority of people will never miss. If you need one of the best 2-in-1 laptops, best Windows laptops, or best gaming laptops, then this isn't the laptop for you, but the MacBook Air 13-inch M4 is one of the best laptops and best MacBooks for most people.
