The first fork on the road to which you will arrive when buying a MacBook is to follow the airway or head to the professional road. For people looking for a daily home laptop or a work laptop to manage basic desktop applications, a MacBook Air will suffice. An air is also a better choice for students with tight budgets. For creative types that need the additional treatment and graphics muscle of the new M4 Pro and Apple Max chips, a MacBook Pro is worth the additional cost. To help you find the right MacBook for your needs and your budget, here are the main considerations to keep in mind.
Price
The entry price of a MacBook is $ 649. This brings you out the M1 MacBook Air which was published in 2020, but this offer is exclusive to Walmart. If you shop at Apple, the price starts at $ 999 for the 13 -inch MacBook Air M4 and $ 1 199 for the 15 -inch MacBook Air M4. The integration of a MacBook Pro model starts at $ 1,599. Here are the starting prices of the current MacBook range of Apple:
- 13 inches M4 MacBook Air: $ 999
- 15 inches M4 MacBook Air: $ 1 199
- 14 inches M4 MacBook Pro: $ 1,599
- 16 -inch M4 for MacBook Pro: $ 2,499
Size and display
If you take your MacBook with you in class, working or even in your local coffee most mornings, an air is the best choice. The 13 -inch MacBook Air models weigh less than 3 pounds, and the more spacious 15 -inch air weighs only 3.3 pounds, which is even lighter than the 14 -inch MacBook Pro.
Portability sets up is the size of the screen. The 16 -inch MacBook Pro amply gives you room for work and several tasks, while the 14 -inch MacBook Pro is trying to hit the ideal point between spacious display and ease of travel. Unless you need pro level performance, we think that 15 -inch air does a better job to reach this target.
- 13.3 inch M1 MacBook Air: 13.3 inch display (2,560 x 1,600 pixels), 2.8 pounds
- 13.6 inches M4 MacBook Air: 13.6 inch display (2,560 x 1,664 pixels), 2.7 pounds
- 15.3 inch M4 MacBook Air: Display of 15.3 inches (2,880 x 1,864 pixels), 3.3 pounds
- 14.2 inch M4 MacBook Pro: Display of 14.2 inch (3,024×1 964 pixels), 3.4 pounds
- 16.2 inch M4 for MacBook Pro: Display of 16.2 inch (3,456×2 234 pixels), 4.7 pounds
Processor
The processor, alias the CPU, is the brain of a laptop. Macbooks have used the own Apple processors since the introduction of the M1 processor in 2020. Macbooks based on M1 were clear improvements compared to Apple -based anterior machines in terms of overall performance, efficiency and battery life. The M1 MacBooks were more powerful, boasted longer time and operated more coldly and silently.
The latest range of MacBook Airs has the latest Apple M4 chip, and the MacBook Pro Line offers a choice of M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max processors. The M4 MacBook Air models offer slightly better performance than M3 -based versions, but performance jump is not the same as Intel processors to M1.
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The graphic processor manages all the screen work of the screen and generate what is displayed, as well as accelerating many operations linked to graphics (and more and more linked to AI). Apple’s M series processors incorporate the GPU. The more treatment carrots than GPU A, the better the graphic performance is better. Here is the ventilation:
- M1: GPU with 7 cores or 8 cores
- M2: GPU with 8 cores or 10 cores
- M3: GPU with 8 cores or 10 cores
- M4: GPU with 8 cores or 10 cores
- M4 for: GPU of 20 cores or 32 cores
- M4 Max: GPU of 32 cores or 40 cores
Memory
Memory (or RAM) is the place where the operating system stores all data for execution applications, and can be completed quickly. After that, he begins to exchange between Ram and SSD, which is slower. With the exception of the old M1 Air sold in Walmart, the MacBook Air models are now starting at 16 GB of RAM with the 14 -inch M4 M4 M4. The minimum on M4 Pro MacBook Pro models is 24 GB, and the pro M4 Max MacBook serve 36 GB or more.
You cannot upgrade memory on the purchase of recent post macbooks, so you will need to get all the RAM you will need. Macbooks are able to run a gentle macOS and preinstalled applications with the minimum RAM offered, but double the RAM will make your MacBook feel faster and will probably lead to a longer lifespan of the laptop.
Storage
Macbooks have readers in a solid state or SSD. The MacBook Air models start with a 256 GB SSD, and MacBook Pros offers an SSD of 512 GB at least. If you use cloud storage for your files, music collection and photo library, you may be able to get out with a 256 GB SSD without filling it for too long. We were happy to see the 13 -inch MacBook Pro with its lean SSDs of 256 GB – Pro users at least need 512 GB.
