If you're in the market for a laptop, you have no shortage of choices. But unless you need something with exceptionally powerful hardware or are operating on a very tight budget, I'm here to end your search right now: You should buy the M4 MacBook Air, especially while it's on sale for $749 before Black Friday.

Apple's latest MacBook Air is, without a doubt in my mind, the best laptop for most people—at least for people who don't need to run Windows. This is an entry-level machine, but it doesn't feel like it: The laptop comes with Apple's M4 chip, which was until very recently the company's newest hardware. (That being said, there is no M5 MacBook Air yet, so this is still the best Air on the market.) Apple's M-series is excellent: In fact, the M1 MacBook Air is still a great machine fiv

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