New Delhi, March 25 -- There's a comforting sense of predictability in the new MacBook Air M4. It stays true to the formula refined to perfection in the MacBook Airs M2 and M3-slim the MacBook Pro design down to a barely there fanless design, throw in the latest, highly performant and equally efficient M4 chip, and even double the memory to 16 gigabytes for good measure.

Yet, its most important upgrade comes from a very unlikely quarter (for Apple, at least): a lower starting price. Starting at Rs.99,900 and Rs.1,24,900 for the 13-inch and 15-inch base M4 Air models, you're saving between Rs.10,000- Rs.15,000 over the M3 generation Airs, but how do the new models fare in the AI-laptop era?

Sticking to its "if it aint broke, don't fix it...