They were launched less than two months ago, they are outstanding products, and yet Amazon is offering substantial discounts on them.

The biggest reason to upgrade to the MacBook Pro M4 is the performance. This machine gets the newest M4 chip that is based on a 3-nanometer process, promising the fastest CPU core and better multithreaded performance than M3. Based on our testing, the M4 blows a lot of the competition away but not on every test.

Apple's MacBook Air set the standard for portability, and right now it's on sale for $749 for Black Friday -- the lowest price we've seen for this laptop yet.