MacBook Air 15inch M4 chip 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU - 16GB - 256GB SSD - Silver - Z1DB

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At £990 ex-VAT, the MacBook Air 15" with an M4 chip (16GB/256GB) is a surprisingly sensible buy **if** you want a quiet, cool, long-battery work laptop that just behaves well day-to-day. This is the kind of machine that suits busy office teams, consultants, and knowledge workers who live in the browser, Office/Google docs, Slack/Teams, light design, and a bit of coding. The 15-inch Air is also a sweet spot for people who find the smaller Air/13" panels cramped—more real estate for spreadsheets and reports without moving up to “proper” heavier kit.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it blindly for every business use case. **256GB** is the part that tends to bite once you start storing projects, caches, and media, and Macs don’t always make “easy upgrades” later if you’re tight on disk. If your staff are doing heavier creative workflows, running multiple large apps at once, or need lots of local storage, you’ll feel constrained faster than with machines that offer more headroom. Also worth noting: for a UK B2B IT reseller client, this is great where you value management simplicity and reliability—but it’s not the value choice if you’re trying to maximize raw upgrade flexibility per pound.