TL;DR: Bring home a powerful MacBook Air for just $514.99 (reg. $1,499), better than Amazon and Walmart’s current prices. When it comes to a laptop you don’t mind lugging around, the MacBook Air is in a category all its own.

Investopedia read a selection of reviews of the new M4 MacBook Air to get a sense of early responses to the laptop, which hit stores March 12. Here's a selection of what we found, along with links to the reviews.

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.