Today the M4 MacBook Air, 2025 Mac Studio, M3 iPad Air, and 11th-Gen iPad were made available to customers around the world along with their respective device accessories. Apple also released some Apple Watch accessories and the new USB-C to MagSafe 3 charging cable in Sky Blue, too. Today, a brand new 15″ M4 MacBook Air A3241 in Sky Blue is unboxed at Low End Mac as well.
What sparked the idea to get this?
The ‘Book in question will be my new “away” daily driver, in tandem with my “home” daily driver, an i7 2018 Mac mini. After seeing the benchmarks for the M4 chip and how they were superior to the M1 Pro in my 16″ M1 Pro ‘Book it felt like a no-brainer. What struck me more than anything was the 1.5x increase in single core performance in Geekbench 6! Benchmarks and articles will be coming. I went and got the 512 GB SSD model.
- Apple is offering extra trade-in credit for the Mac through April 2nd. (See More)
- The M1 Pro MacBook Pro 16″ traded-in saved a majority of the cost of this MacBook Air.
- This device is ~3.5 to 4 years newer than what I had previously, so will be supported further along.
- The M4 chip jumps to 3750 MHz LPDDR5X-7500 RAM and a 3nm process!!!
- Screen doesn’t feel like a downgrade to me
- See: M4 MacBook Air (Early 2025) Tech specs on Low End Mac
(Above: New sky blue MagSafe 3 to USB-C charging cable)
(Above: The thick portion is just a part of the box.)
(Above: Apple’s new MagSafe 3 to USB-C in Sky Blue + 35W Dual USB-C Charger)
(Above: The new 35W charging brick has concave dips on the case to make it easier to unplug)
(Above: Dual USB-C charging ports on the new 35W Apple charging brick)
(Above: Software terms printed on ‘Book wrap)
(Above: MacBook Air, upside down)
(Above: The only text you will find underneath. Serial number has been edited out.)
(Above: 15″ M4 MacBook Air, unwrapped)
(Above: 2x Thunderbolt 4 ports in a USB-C style, and a Magsafe 3 port)
(Above: Concave dip in lower case to allow ease of opening ‘Book)
(Above: Opening for the first time)
(Above: You can tell it’s not quite silver)
(Above: Of course, Touch ID is a must.)
(Above: Yes it is quite Sky Blue!)
(Above: Benching in Geekbench for an upcoming article piece..)
(Above: M4 MacBook Air 15″ Sitting on the desk)
All in all, the Sky Blue M4 MacBook Air 15″ looks like a beautiful device and already feels like a great replacement just by typing on it. It’s the first device I’ve been excited about in a long time because of how the specs set the bar and really package a powerful device into something small and efficient. Ever since I put together a RAID0 array out of SSDs in a Mac Pro 2,1 for the first time, that was my standard for device performance – it had to be snappy. With the single core performance of the M4 chip, this is by far one of the snappiest chips you could snap up on the market.
