MacBook Air (M4, 2025) 15 -inch Review: Bluer and Best
M4 also gives MacBook Air a batch with Apple Intelligence. 38 peaks of local artificial intelligence processing through the 16 -light nerve engine that makes the M4 MacBook air closer to 48 peaks on Intel’s Lunar and 45 Snapdragon X chips in Qualcomm.
It is difficult to judge this, because Apple Intelligence is still incomplete, but there are some new third -party applications that Apple uses Apple Intelligence directly outside the box in third -party applications, such as the climbing application. You can now do things like text format automatically in tables or summarize a report. It also comes with the photo field, the updated version of Siri with ChatGPT integration, and more. On the other hand, it was never necessary Local AI Fast processing for Apple Intelligence, where AI tasks are operated on older devices only on the Apple cloud system.
The raw performance impulses that you will see on M4 MacBook Air during M3 last year is 22 percent of GPU, 31 percent multi -core and 18 percent of one light, as measured in Cinebench R24. This is a really strong step for one generation, especially in mono -core performance, as Silicon Apple continues to control competition. With regard to graphics, this is more than twice the performance of the M2. Whether you edit pictures or make a 3D model, this is enough Feel The difference if you are from M1 or M2 MacBook Air.
As with all MacBook atmosphere, it is a completely without fan. This is incredible in some points, especially when you are in applications like the game. I have come out Portal Portal 3And although it is far from the ideal performance, the completely silent system means that you will not even need headphones to play. But in 1200 pixels, medium settings, and upgrade, it was not very difficult to find a balance between performance and the quality of the image that felt enjoyable. Achieving this performance without fans is something that cannot be done on any other laptop at the present time.
Of course, the downside of being without a fan is that you do not get a lot of M4 as you do on a system with active cooling, i.e. 14 -inch MacBook Pro. The air system should be reduced from the frequencies to prevent collapse, and even though, you have registered the CPU temperatures of up to 102 degrees Celsius. Fortunately, the surface temperatures never become unbearable in my time with it, even while running under a full pregnancy.
Photo: Luke Larsen