Naturally, we're sure you're itching to hear how the MacBook Air 15-inch (M4) and Apple iPad Air 11-inch M3 (2025) stack up. Well, you can read about their high-octane performance

The smaller Air is the perfect student laptop, but once you're out of school you should graduate to the larger but still highly portable 15-inch model.

I thought I had this figured out. I was making a hard-headed decision to buy a refurbed M1 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM for half the price of a new M4 one, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment. But, ironically,