Apple's M4 MacBook Air is shaping up to be an affordable powerhouse. In newly released benchmarks, it performs almost as well as the M4 MacBook Pro, all for $600 less.

M4 MacBook Air: Starts at $1,000 for the base model with 256GB of storage and 16GB of memory. Upgrading to 512GB raises the price to $1,200. This makes the Air a budget-friendly option for users who don’t need the advanced features of the Pro.

With updates to the MacBook Air and Mac Studio, all of the company’s current Macs are now running M4 systems on a chip, except the Mac Pro. To be honest, I’m not sure Apple thinks anyone should be thinking about buying a Mac Pro,