2025 Ultrabook Showdown: MacBook Air M4 vs. Dell XPS 13 vs. ASUS Zenbook S 14 – Battle of the Ultra-Thins
Performance Breakdown (CPU/GPU/RAM) Apple’s M4 chip vs Intel Core Ultra: The MacBook Air’s M4 chip is a custom Apple Silicon with 10 CPU cores (combination of high-performance and efficiency cores) and integrated GPU. It offers exceptional single-core speed – Apple touts web browsing up to 60% faster than a Core Ultra i7 PC laptop apple.com – and competitive multi-core performance despite being fanless. In fact, the M4 Air is essentially as fast as the MacBook Pro” for most tasks theguardian.com. Day-to-day, the Air feels snappy and can even handle light video editing or Photoshop with ease apple.com apple.com. Its 16-core