CRN compares Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 chip against Microsoft’s latest Surface Book convertible laptop, featuring 10th-gen Intel Core processors and optional Nvidia GeForce graphics.

The MacBook Air 13 (M4) starts at $999 with a 10-core CPU, 8-core GPU M4 chipset, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. That’s a break from the past, where Apple used to keep the previous generation ...