The Apple MacBook Air laptop with the M4 chip offers promising performance at a very nice price, Consumer Reports says.

The MacBook Air M4 has arrived and promises to be the best MacBook Air yet. Not only does it come equipped with the Apple M4 chip, but it also features a new 12MP Center Stage camera, 16GB of RAM, dual external monitor support,

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.