Finally writing a review about my first week with my M4 MacBook Air. Here are a few things I’ll talk about:

• Apps ( App Store, Homebrew, web)
• Tweaks
• Custom icons (Icon Changer)
• Time Machine
• Base storage
• Performance and Battery Life
• Display
• Thunderbolt docks
• Chargers and cables
• Laptop sleeves
• other QoL bits

Fridays I’m designating for learning, writing, reading in the vein of professional development.
#writing #review #apple #m4macbookair

My new M4 MacBook Air is a dream. Migration assistant took a little over an hour using Ethernet and Thunderbolt. Set up Time Machine with my new Crucial X9 Pro external SSD. Read/write speeds are incredible.Also I can’t get over how light the machine is and the screen is beautiful and larger than you would think due to the smaller bezels. #apple #m4macbookair #mac #crucialx9pro
Setting up my new M4 MacBook Air today. The 2018 13” Intel MacBook Pro was very good to me. Am I the only one who will miss the TouchBar? I know it had many haters but it always worked flawlessly for me and was convenient for media controls. #Apple #m4macbookair #upgrade #ripintel #mac

This is my take after testing the #M4MacBookAir with the #M4 Chip
To be honest, I would love to be part of that team someday, because what ever they are doing and making, is pure ART and dare I say magic!

#Apple #Engineers for the #MSeries #Chip , I must say, Kudos to you all!

https://youtu.be/7kpY2kPdCgU?si=kA_rLnrY3ACvZSaa

M4 vs M1 Max vs RTX Graphics Card in Blender 4.4

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"#M4MacBookAir is #Apple at its best, and hints at a new trend - #9to5Mac"
- To me, "Apple Silicon" Mac finally arrived with the M4 MacBook Air. I usually buy Apple stuff a few generations old, used or refurbished. But the Air became a first Mac I purchased brand new in last 20 years.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/20/m4-macbook-air-is-apple-at-its-best-and-hints-at-a-new-trend/
M4 MacBook Air is Apple at its best, and hints at a new trend - 9to5Mac

The M4 MacBook Air represents Apple’s ability to make great products in a unique way, and points to a positive trend for the Mac.

9to5Mac

I know when the sky is blue, but not necessarily with these M4 MacBook Air models.

Am I Blue?

#Apple #MacBook #M4MacBookAir #SkyBlue #tech

https://warnercrocker.com/2025/03/14/am-i-blue/

Am I Blue?

Blue is in the eye of the beholder. Or maybe in the lens of the camera.

Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3

Am I Blue?

I took a trip to the Apple Store today to pick up a new iPad for my mother-in-law. Her older iPad 8 had run out of storage space and would no longer update. Picked it up. Set it up. No hassle. She’s off and running. 

While there I thought I’d take a look at the new M4 MacBook Air and other new hardware that might be on display. In looking at the MacBook Air I thought for sure I was looking at the silver colored version for a while. (Pictured below next to the Starlight version.)

When a rep popped by I asked him if they had any of the SkyBlue models on display, he said the one I was looking at was the Sky Blue version. 

Surprised, I asked if he had a silver version on display and he pointed me to the other end of the table. Walking back and forth, my eyes could not distinguish any real difference between the two colors. But as the photos below show, the camera picked up the slight difference better than my naked eyes could. (Sky Blue is on the right.)

I asked the rep if other folks who may have better eyesight than I were equally confused  and his reply was, “Apple doesn’t know what blue is, so why should we expect customers to figure it out.” I asked him further why they were positioned so far apart on the table and he said they were given specific orders to put as much distance between the Sky Blue and Silver variants as possible. 

Well, ok then. 

By the way, my mother-in-law’s iPad is closer to what I’d call Sky Blue, and yet the cameras tend to make it appear less saturated than it is in person.

Colors can be weird.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

#Apple #AppleStore #iPad #m4 #m4MacbookAir #MacBook #MacBookAir #skyBlue #SkyBlue #Tech #technology

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M4 MacBook Air için ilk yurt dışı incelemeleri çıktı. Bunların derlemesini yaptık. #m4macbookair #macbookair

http://www.teknoblog.com/m4-macbook-air-inceleme-derlemesi-sessiz-ama-guclu/

M4 MacBook Air inceleme derlemesi: Sessiz ama güçlü

M4 MacBook Air inceleme makaleleri ve videoları yurt dışındaki teknoloji sitelerinde görülmeye başladı. Bunların derlemesini yaptık.

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Erste Benchmark-Ergebnisse: M4 MacBook Air und M3 iPad Air überzeugen
Apple hat neue Versionen des MacBook Air und iPad Air veröffentlicht. Erste Benchmark Ergebnisse zeigen deutliche Leistungssteigerungen beider Geräte. Besonders das M4 MacBook Air beeindr
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/erste-benchmark-ergebnisse-m4-macbook-air-und-m3-ipad-air-ueberzeugen/
#Mac #News #AppleBenchmarks #AppleChips #Geekbench6 #Leistungstests #M3Chip #M3IPadAir #M4MacBookAir #M4Chip #NeueAppleGerte
Erste Benchmark-Ergebnisse: M4 MacBook Air und M3 iPad Air überzeugen

Apple hat neue Versionen des MacBook Air und iPad Air veröffentlicht. Erste Benchmark Ergebnisse zeigen deutliche Leistungssteigerungen beider Geräte.

Apfeltalk Magazin