Apple launches the MacBook Air with M4, cuts $100 from the starting price

I love it when a product update gets a price cut, while boosting performance and new colours like the M4 MacBook Air does.

The new MacBook Air with M4 in sky blue

Hot off the back of yesterday's iPad Air update, Apple has today also given its iconic MacBook Air an overhaul.

Central to this update is the upgrade of the processor to the M4, which we first saw arrive in Apple's MacBook Pro and iMac lineup late last year.

As a quick refresher, the M4 is a beast of a chip, with a powerful 10-core CPU, up to 10-cores in the GPU, and support for up to 32GB of unified memory. That allows it to deliver performance up to twice that of the M1 MacBook Air.